Is culture destiny? Or is geography destiny? These are the existential questions Australians have to grapple with as they ponder their future in the Asian century. As they think over these questions, they would do well to plunge into Peter Hartcher's new Lowy Institute Paper The Adolescent Country.
Hartcher does not address these existential questions directly. But they form the sub-text of much of what he talks about on Australia's future.