The Conscience Industry: Intellectuals and the Big Issues in Contemporary Australia

Australia is often cast as an anti-intellectual nation, but public intellectual life is booming. Yet 'the same names recur in the same places having much the same debates. There is a great deal of our public intellectual life not well-represented in the mainstream media and public forums.' ""The Ideas Market"" attempts to address this deficiency, introducing an alternative collection of provocative voices to a broader audience. It also asks some fundamental questions about intellectual life in this country: 'What does it mean to be a public intellectual?' and 'Who gets to be an intellectual?'