Synopsis

Although Australia is often cast as an anti-intellectual nation, scholars, writers and columnists play an increasingly prominent role in the media and other forums. Public intellectual life is booming. Yet as David Carter notes in the introduction to this collection, 'the same names recur in the same places having much the same debates. There is a great deal of our public intellectual life not well-represented in the mainstream media and public forums.' The Ideas Market attempts to address this deficiency, bringing together some of Australia's brightest, best-known and controversial writers in a fresh discussion about the nature of public debate in this country.

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