Seize the Future
How Australia Can Prosper in the New Century
Alan Oxley(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-86508-205-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86508-205-9 (9781865082059)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alan Oxley is one of Australia's leading international strategists. He is a regular keynote speaker on global trends at national and international conferences. Before establishing his strategic consultancy firm in 1990, Oxley was Australian Ambassador to GATT, the predecessor of the World Trade Organisation, and was the first Australian to serve as GATT chairman. As a diplomat he respresented Australia in Singapore, at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.
He has written widely on globalisation, Australia's industrial future and IT.
He has written widely on globalisation, Australia's industrial future and IT.
Content
1. The Dream on the Seal 2. The End of Luck 3. The End of Confidence 4. The Asian Bogey 5. Pauline's Choice 6. 1998 - The turning point 7. The Globalised Century8. Do we make that9. The Wired Century10. A Greener Century11. The Pacific Century12.A global nation13. How we can blow it14. Realising our Destiny15. The Third Golden Age