Griffith REVIEW's tenth-anniversary edition features Australia's best writers tackling theunderlying forces that will shape the next decade- sustainability, equality, belonging, technologyand the capacity for change.
Over its first decade Griffith REVIEW has had an uncanny ability to anticipate emerging trends.In this anniversary edition the insights from the past will inform a forward-looking agenda,explored with flair and literary panache.
Frank Moorhouse reconsiders the proliferation of surveillance, Melissa Lucashenko observes upclose what life is like being poor in a rich country, Kathy Marks describes how western Sydneyhas become a metaphor for a changing nation, Anna Rose anticipates how change might occur,Desmond Manderson draws parallels between the war on drugs and treatment of refugees,Michael Wesley tests what an Asian century might really mean, Rodney Croome argues thatbelonging will define the next decade, Andrew Belk explores the price of flying in and flyingout-and more.
Now We Are Ten offers powerful insights into the challenges of the next ten years on the eve ofthe federal election.