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The future by us: Young leaders imagine Australia beyond 2020
Hugh Evans and Tom O'Connor (eds)
Hardie Grant Books
2009; A$24.99
ISBN: 9781740667173, 239pp.
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Edited by Hugh Evans, the 2020 Youth Summit's co-chair, and his Oaktree Foundation colleague, Tom O'Connor, these 10 essays aim to reach youth, teachers, parents and the business community. Evans wants to "involve young Australians in a dialogue about the sort of country we want to live in as adults beyond 2020" (p.7) and to "cut through the bureaucracy, through the politics, through the indifference" of contemporary Australia (p.9). The contributors are all high-achieving young Australians working in various ways for hope, peace, justice and change. Their essays are eloquent, providing facts and statistics on a broad range of Australian policy ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The future by us: Young leaders imaging Australia beyond 2020.(Brief...