biography
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Horne, Donald (Richmond)
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Writer, academic, and arts administrator, born in New South Wales, SE Australia. He became associate professor of political science at the University of New South Wales in 1964 (emeritus, 1987). His best-known book is The Lucky Country (1964), the title of which has become a common Australian expression, used without the ironic sense originally intended. Other books include A History of the Australian People (1985), The Lucky Country Revisited (1987), and Ideas for the Nation (1989). He was editor of The Bulletin (1967–72), chairman of the Australia Council (1985–90), Chancellor of the University of Canberra, and chairman of the Ideas for Australia programme since 1991. A leading member of the Australian Republican Movement, he has written The Coming Republic (1992) and The Public Culture (1994), which analyses societies and nation-states. |
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