Tim Watts on Australia’s changing identity
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Tim Watts joins Michelle Grattan to discuss his new book, The Golden Country, in which he reconciles his family's past and present, and explores the question of what it means to be Australian.
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Elisabeth Pruegl, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University