Stephen Wilks review of Lyndon Megarrity, Rex Patterson: A Voice for the North

Abstract

Rex Alan Patterson (1927–2016) was a stalwart advocate of that most recurrent of Australian dreams—realising national prosperity and even greatness by developing the forbidding far north of this vast continent. The author is one of our few historians of development policy, and the foremost authority on the development of the continent’s north. Here he fulfils these roles with skill, and in this little work plays to the strengths of short biography. Show more