Part travelogue, part forensic investigation of the national psyche, this account boldly takes its reader to where many have spent the bulk of their lives - the core of the great Australian ordinariness. Asking what constitutes the average Australian, and armed with the latest statistical tools, Jonathan Green sets out to locate the one person that most embodies Australia's most commonly shared values. All aspects of life fall victim to Green's scrutiny - health, education, sex, work, leisure, and politics - who ultimately asks how, in this age of mass aspiration and consumer assimilation, we can also identify it as the moment of the individual.
- ISBN10 0522854087
- ISBN13 9780522854084
- Publish Date 1 August 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Melbourne University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English