Anthony Moran currectly teaches politics at La Trobe University in Australia. He has a prestigious fellowship at the Center for Critical Theory at the University of the West of England.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Globalizing Australia; Chapter 2 Globalization, National Belonging, and National Identity; Chapter 3 Multiculturalism - Threat or Opportunity?; Chapter 4 The Dilemmas of Settler/Indigenous Relations; Chapter 5 Asylum Seekers: the Politics of Sympathy and the Experience of Globalization;

In this book Anthony Moran traces the development of contemporary Australian society in the global age, focusing on four major themes: settler/indigenous relations; economics and culture since the 1980s and their impact on national identity; the effects of increasing diversity fostered by globalization; and the transformation of Australian social space wrought by globalization.