Seize the Future

The world will change in the new millennium. The Information Age has arrived and it will shape a new global community. The centre of world activity is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific - how will Australia cope in this globalised world, located in a region increasingly dominated by rich and confident Asian nations? The future is brighter than most Australians realise. Australia has worked through a crisis of confidence which began in the 80s and ended with Hansonism. It has remade itself. It now has competitive manufacturers, it has conquered its Asian bogey and it has shaken off the Lucky Country mentality. It is better wired than most for the Information Age which has ended Australia's global isolation. So equipped, drawing the strengths of its western culture, Australia has become a global nation, one of the nations which will succeed in the new century. Seize the Future explains why Australia can rebuild employment and prosperity and create its third golden age. It also warns how it could all go wrong.