Ambivalence

Glimpses of an Australian Life

The author picks out key moments and themes in his life from the last year of the Second World War through to today’s global turmoil. Decades he has spent in outback Australia, Adelaide, Sydney and Scandinavia – as student, lawyer, politics academic, and writer. He delivers memoirs laced with uncomfortable insights into his country’s development.

“Winton Higgins has gifted us with a generation-defining story of a long Australian life taking in contrasting environments, from the outback to Scandinavia, but always with reference back to his homeland. He rewards the reader with his acute ability to probe not only his own life, but the transit of a nation. In doing so he asks the central questions that confront his compatriots today.”

- Lesley Synge, author of Know Their Names

View a video recording of the launch of this book, in conversation with Professor Andy Leigh, at Gleebooks, Sydney, on 9 September 2026 here.

The book is available through Glebebooks.

Paperback ISBN 978-0-6454998-7-2
250 pages – 153 x 234mm
• RRP AUD $32.95 (inc GST)

PDF ISBN 978-0-6454998-8-9
ePub ISBN 978-0-6454998-9-6