A New Australia

Enthusiastic reader:

“I was a bit nervous that I’d find it dense, I haven’t asked very much of my brain in the last several years..
Instead I’m finding it accessible, and uplifting! 
In the first years of parenting I was finding the doom and gloom of the world crushing, and was sinking into apathy. More recently I’ve been practicing the idea of living as if the world I want is already here, kind of ‘be the change you want to see’ type thing.
Reading, ‘A New Australia’, is validating my choice to (attempt to) chose a charitable interpretation regarding people and life. I want to buy copies for everyone I know, such a great antidote to apathy!” – Braidwood mum of a 5-year-old.

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A New Australia: Discarding delusions and organising for the wellbeing of all

Australia is ruled by false ideas.

That is why things are not working. That is why our society is disintegrating and the land is degrading.

Neoliberalism has been an economic failure and a social disaster. Our rulers are stuck in colonial mentalities and propelling us towards a catastrophic war. The climate is rapidly worsening.

A New Australia dissects fallacies and signposts a better path: a coherent web of well-based ideas that can benefit everyone, repair society and regenerate the land.

People are innately social. Absent irrational fear, people can get along. Markets and money can be harnessed for good. The world is abundant. …

We can live not just in hope, but in the knowledge we are making the world better.

We, the people, have the power.

A New Australia is a broader, deeper and more meticulous examination of our Australian society than any other recent book, worthy as many of them are.

A New Australia is not interested in tweaking politics-as-usual: if we don’t know where we need to get to we will never find the ways to get there.

It does not just wish for better values, it presents the evidence that we are much better than our public conversation commonly implies, why we fall so short and how we can cultivate our better angels.

It does not just complain about mainstream economics, it brings rigorous analysis to its discrediting and replacement.

Author’s remarks on the launch of A New Australia

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Endorsements

“The stories we live by – that human nature is fundamentally selfish, and that the planet has infinite space to absorb abuse – have turned deadly. In this broad and comprehensive offering, Geoff Davies goes back to the origins of the stories that have turned industrial societies against the earth itself. Not content with traversing physics, philosophy, economics and politics in pursuit of the antecedents of our disastrous present, Davies is at his best when he sketches the outlines of new stories.  A New Australia is an urgent and necessary contribution to the big ideas our age demands.” – Scott Ludlam, writer, former senator 

“… a bold philippic that calls for the rekindling of our national spirit, a rebirthing of the dream of decency and fairness that we held in earlier days, a re-energising of the will to make this a better, fairer, kinder land.” – Julian Cribb AM, science journalist and author

“ Geoff Davies’ book “A New Australia” should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of Australia, or indeed humanity at large. … Geoff draws on his wide scientific and life experience to chart the way to overcome this existential challenge, creating a genuinely sustainable and prosperous society where the common good is respected and individual freedoms are balanced with corresponding responsibilities. A tour de force. Thoroughly recommended.” – Ian Dunlop, Member, The Club of Rome, Formerly: Chair Australian Coal Association, CEO Australian Institute of Company Directors. “

“In his latest book “A New Australia”, Davies boldly argues the need for a new direction in the structure and operation of Australian society.  I have followed the author’s journey for several years, and I consider that what he is proposing in this book is stimulating and constructive, and that the arguments he presents, need to be seriously considered by politicians, decision-makers and leading thinkers across Australia.” – Em Prof Bob Douglas AO; formerly the Founding Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University, Founder of Australia 21.

Full endorsements: here.