Gabrielle Chan

Why you should give a f*ck about farming (eBook, ePUB)

Because you eat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book comprises the forensic, brave and yet holistic examination that Australian agriculture and its so-called governance has long needed.
While investigating the social, economic, political and environmental influences on farming in Australia and its relevance to the national interest, Chan poses some fundamental questions. These include how and why we farm and live like we do? And what then are the consequent impacts on human health, communities, landscapes and society as a whole. Chan therefore challenges our fundamental assumptions - not just on farming but also of our approach to eating, living, business philosophy and thus politics.
Insightful, incisive, courageous and thus challenging, Chan writes in an engaging, authoritative yet perky style - underpinned by her wide research. The result is powerful communication and thus everything a potential game-changing book should be.
In the end, Chan exposes the myopia of our Government's policy and executive leadership, and also the illogic of leaving matters in the hands of the 'free market' and its destructive effects socially and environmentally.
Honest and confronting, this long overdue book sits in the same class as Donald Horne's The Lucky Country. One can only hope it likewise successfully challenges our unexamined assumptions on how we farm, eat, live and do business in this country. Otherwise, Horne's haunting question will continue to hang over us: 'Are we still sleep-walking into the future?'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781760899349
• Artikelnr.: 62525130

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She has been a political journalist and politics live blogger at Guardian Australia since 2013. Prior to that she worked at The Australian, ABC radio, The Daily Telegraph, in local newspapers and politics. Gabrielle has written and edited history books, biographies and even a recipe book.

The daughter of a Singaporean migrant, Gabrielle moved from the Canberra press gallery to marry a sheep and wheat farmer in 1996 - the year Pauline Hanson was first elected to federal parliament. She noticed the economic and cultural divide between the city and the country, the differences in political culture and yawning gap between the parliament and small town life.

So in September 2017, she swapped interviews with politicians with interviews with ordinary people on her main street to discover why they think politics has moved so far from their lives. The result is Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up. In the process, Gabrielle draws conclusions about the current state of our rural political representation, the gap between city and country and how to bridge it.