19 May

All Australians should read this book. Damien is the Oz bureau chief for the NY Times. He brought his family to live here and discovered something really profound about us that I think many don’t even see. He knows us better than we do. Our politics is now dominated by US libertarian rubbish, about individual freedom, aspiration, the Economy etc. Cave lived all that in the US, and would never want it again after he discovered the unique magic of Australia. The tragedy is, that unique magic is disappearing every day, and foreigners like Cave see it more than Australians do.