100 Years

There have always been competing views of Australia. It has been seen as a land of despair and of hope, a place of indifference and of aspiration, an accident in which Europeans were stranded on the wrong side of earth and a civilisation with the genius to renew itself. Leading political analyst and author Paul Kelly uses the centenary of Federation to dissect our nation's character. Kelly traces the past century through the ideas that shaped Australian politics in the 1990s - an independent rep