AWW22 The Education of Young Donald - Kerryn Goldsworthy, Julia Horne and Nick Horne
Chaired by Peter Rose
\nThe Education of Young Donald trilogy is Donald Horne\u2019s autobiographies \u2014 The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988). They\u2019re the story of an Australian prophet; his years away from home, the gallery of characters he meets on the journey, the \u201csuccesses that were failures and failures that were successes\u201d, and his unexpected emergence as a voice of the nation. Seventeen years after his passing, analysis of his legacy feels timely in a country still dumbly surfing on its luck.