Donald Horne
Professor Donald Horne (26 December 1921 – 8 September 2005) was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals.
Horne published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis. He also edited The Bulletin, The Observer and Quadrant. His best known work was The Lucky Country (1964), an evaluation of Australian society that questioned many traditional attitudes: "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck."
Read more about Donald Horne: Life, Recognition, Selected Bibliography
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“You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don’t bother with other things.”
—Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)