Why has Australian modesty become a lost virtue?
Even now, despite everything, we consider ourselves the good guys. Perhaps it's a universal human conceit: all of us heroes in our own movie. Yet there is irony here.
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate Professor (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
Even now, despite everything, we consider ourselves the good guys. Perhaps it's a universal human conceit: all of us heroes in our own movie. Yet there is irony here.
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Elizabeth Farrelly: What I envy is cities with imagination and principle at the helm. It's wisdom-envy. Governance envy.
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Ranking education, and ranked education, is rank nonsense.
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