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nationbuild: the quest for self-reliance (Bob Day). Australian Conservative has value-priced copies of Bob Day’s roadmap for the future – nationbuild: the quest for self-reliance. Day’s book offers a visionary blueprint for national development and personal fulfilment. The author writes: “Australia is universally regarded as a ‘great country’. Few people, however, describe Australia as a ‘great nation’. Why is this, and what is it that makes a nation ‘great’?” Robert (Bob) John Day AO is an Adelaide businessman and the founder of various home building companies operating in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Bob is the national chairman of Family First and contested the Mayo by-election in 2008 and was the party’s lead Senate candidate in the 2010 federal election. More.

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