The Way We Live Now: The Controversies of the Nineties

by Robert Manne

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Robert Manne is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. His recent books include On Borrowed Time, Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Complacency, and The Words that Made Australia (as co-editor). He has written three Quarterly Essays and is a regular contributor to the Monthly and the Guardian.

Reviews

[albie_of_nonfic · Rating 3 out of 5]

An anthology of essays written between 1992 and 1998 and assembled in late 1998, this is of interest mainly as an indicator of what issues were regarded as significant in 1990s Australia. Some are still with us (Indigenous affairs and the Stolen Generation) and others are weirdly persistent (Pauline Hanson); some are dormant (the republic); others have been resolved (voluntary euthanasia) and more are forgotten (the Demidenko affair, and Helen Garner's 'The First Stone'). Somewhat eclectic on both subject matter and viewpoint, but may be of interest to those who were around at the time, or want to know what the times were like.

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