The words that made Australia : how Australia made its own ouck - and could now throw it all away.
Selected for the Grattan Institute's 2012 Prime Minister's Reading ListThis is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements - from his...
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| Language: | English |
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Black Inc.,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Copyright; THE WORDS THAT MADE AUSTRALIA; Contents; Introduction; Overture: Miles Franklin; The Workers' Paradise: Albert Metin; The Anzac Landing: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett; The Gallipoli Letter: Keith Murdoch; Women in Australia: Maybanke Anderson; Kangaroo: D.H. Lawrence; The Australian Democracy: W.K. Hancock; The Foundations of Culture in Australia: P.R. Stephensen; What is Significant in us Will Survive: Vance Palmer; The Forgotten People: Robert Menzies; The Cultural Cringe: A.A. Phillips; Re-Writing Australian History: Manning Clark; The Australian Legend: Russel Ward.
- A Nice Night's Entertainment: Barry HumphriesThe Australian Ugliness: Robin Boyd; The Lucky Country: Donald Horne; After the Dreaming: W.E.H. Stanner; Racists: Humphrey McQueen; Australia as a Suburb: Hugh Stretton; Manzone Country: Anne Summers; The Real Matilda: Miriam Dixson; The Spectre of Truganini: Bernard Smith; The End of Certainty: Paul Kelly; From Three Cheers to the Black Armband: Geoffrey Blainey; The Future Eaters: Tim Flannery; A Spirit of Play: David Malouf; Home-Grown Traditions: Inga Clendinnen; Our Right to take Responsibility: Noel Pearson; The New Liberalism: Judith Brett.