Key Thinkers: Glyn Davis on Donald Horne

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In this lecture from the University of Melbourne's Key Thinkers series, Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis looks at the life and work of Donald Horne.

Donald Horne was an Australian journalist, writer social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals

Horne published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis. He also edited The Bulletin, The Observer and Quadrant. His best known work was The Lucky Country (1964), an evaluation of Australian society that questioned many traditional attitudes: "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck."

Melbourne, May 2009

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University of Melbourne

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