About this Book

"In these witty, wonderfully incisive essays, Geoffrey Robertson muses on a wide range of subjects: his illustrious career at the bar and as a champion of free speech and human rights around the world; the humanity and enlightenment of our first governor, Arthur Phillip; little-known Tom Curnow, whose courage Robertson compares to what he sees as the cruelty of Ned Kelly; the endemic problems facing Indigenous Australia; our war record; his relationship with Julian Assange, and much else. With his unmistakeably biting intelligence and humanity Robertson cuts through to what is brilliant and terrible about Australia in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description.