An Antidote to Confusion

This book comes at an important moment not just in Australia’s cultural history, but in the history of the Western world. Denis White is a highly knowledgeable and skilled philosopher but, without insulting philosophy, he is more than a philosopher. He has not only been an academic, he has set up successful businesses, and he’s a strategic planner of considerable skill. When I was working in the Howard government, Denis’s experience advising Malcolm Fraser enabled him to make a proposal to me when I was Minister for Education about how Australia should pursue international education. As director of the Prime Minister’s office, he witnessed the exercise of power at the highest levels in Australia and learnt an enormous amount about the matters covered in this book.

White avoids jargon, picking up the language that people naturally use in their endeavours, and bringing that into philosophy. He has a gift for using common language to convey important thoughts. He writes,…