"Australia’s mining boom is a period of history still talked about with a sense of awe. At the time, the accepted wisdom was that China’s economy would never stop growing and Australia’s mines would always be there to supply them. Australia rode this once-in-history event through 25 straight years of economic growth — we even managed to sidestep the worst of the Global Financial Crisis. No one thought it would end.
"Until it did.
"Today the country is grappling with what that means at a time when inequality is rising and dissatisfaction with politics is at its highest since the Whitlam government dismissal.
"This book focuses on the lived experience of people who came into vast wealth, only to watch it dry up. It tells the stories of the winners, and the losers, who bought into the mining boom’s promise of easy money. It also examines the fall, — when the boom that would never end, ended."
Source: Publisher's blurb.
