Australia has ended the twentieth century confused about what is worth preserving out of a mass of complex financial and economic reforms introduced over the past thirty years.
In this book, highly respected David Love talks to some of Australia's key decision makers in order to analyse our financial revolution. Tracing the major changes from the Whitlam era through to the present and into the future, he asses our ability to remain economically vigorous.
Drawing on his conversations - straw polls - with eminent people, Love balances the story of Australia's economic success with its geopolitical precariousness in the Asian region. Looking in particular at relations with China, Indonesia and the US, and focusing on the ramifications of the national missile defence proposal, he addresses the all-important question, Where do our future interests lie - with the US or within Asia?
