Peter Christoff
Peter Christoff teaches in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on environmental and climate policy and politics, and his latest books include Globalization and the Environment (2013), with Robyn Eckersley, and Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a hot world (2013). Peter formerly was the Victorian Assistant Commissioner for the Environment, and served on the Victorian Premier's Advisory Group on Climate Change and as a Board member of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
When The Lucky Country was published in 1964, its cover – Albert Tucker's painting of a hat-wearing, stony-faced, beer-swilling Aussie gambler – captured its essence. Donald Horne's interrogation of Australia was a powerful critique of a nation marked by cultural and political conservatism and economic insularity. His conclusion opened with the much-quoted sentence, 'Australia is a lucky count ... (read more)