One man's personal search for social and spiritual understanding as to why 200 years of extraordinary technical and material advancement show such violence, identity crisis and social upheaval. From convicts to settlers, from country mateship to urban alienation, from the land of the fair-go to the land - of the me-generation - what are the causes and consequences of Australia's ills? Have we become a land with everything, but nothing to live for?

Issues include

• the effects of Australia's convict beginnings
• society's flourishing 'identity crisis' 
• the original Australians, the Aborigines
• God in a 'post-Christian' era
• the role of the church

Is Australia advancing? Or is she really declining? Truly, Advance Australia Where? is essential reading for every Australian.