Why we are Australian : 125 defining men, women and moments over three centuries
Taylor, Paul2007
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It outlines the main influences on the Australian character and includes a wide range of factors historical, cultural, social, sporting, literary, artistic etc
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Imprint:
Rowville Vic. The Five Mile Press 2007
Collation:
386 p colour illustrations portraits
Contents:
1. The firsts -- 2. The Aborigines -- 3. The books -- 4. The disasters -- 5. Larger than life -- 6. The crime -- 7. The radio -- 8. The last words -- 9. The comedy -- 10. The sea -- 11. The wars -- 12. The paintings -- 13. The sport -- 14. The television -- 15. The individualists -- 16. The icons -- 17. The sex scandals -- 18. The wild -- 19. The monsters -- 20. The grog -- 21. The stage -- 22. The deaths -- 13. The upheavals -- 24. The films -- 25. The speeches. Firsts: First white settlers - First blood - First fleet - First governor - First child -- Aborigines: Bennelong - Black line - Myall creek - Nicky Winmar - Eddie Mabo -- Books: On our selection - Seven Little Australians: - Power without glory - Monkey grip and The first stone - A fortunate life -- Disasters: Spanish flu - 1939 bushfires - HMAS Voyager - Cyclone Tracy - Granville train crash -- Larger than life: Ned Kelly - Melba - Charles Kingsford Smith - Don Bradman - Howard Florey -- Crime: Melbourne gang wars - Sydney, the crime capital - Thorpe kidnap - Bogle-Chandler mystery - Alan Bond corporate criminal -- Radio: Cricket - McCackie Mansion - Argonauts - Jack Davey - Pop boycott -- Last words: Alexander Pierce - Ben Hall - Ned Kelly - Harry 'The Breaker' Morant - Fred Lowry -- Comedy: Stan Cross - Loaded Dog - Fraser's pants - Ginger Meggs - Menzies, Whitlam, Keating --Sea: Eliza Frazer - Cataraqui - Dunbar - Grace Bussell and the Georgette - 1998 Sydney to Hobart -- Wars: Gallipoli - Darwin - Papua New Guinea - Sandakan - Vietnam -- Paintings: Indigenous Art - Albert Namatjira - William Dobell - Ned Kelly by Sidney Nolan - Blue poles by Jackson Pollock -- Sport: First Test - Bloods - Ashes Third Test, 2005 - Cathy Freeman - Socceroos -- Television: Graham Kennedy - Number 96 - Paul Hogan - Neighbours - Bert Newton -- Indivualists: Annette Kellerman - Hugh D. McIntosh - Percy Grainger - Germaine Greer - Shane Warne -- Icons: Melbourne Cuo - Anzac Day - Beaches and Bondi - Vegemite - Sydney Harbour Bridge -- Sex scandals: Lola Montez - Madam Brussels - Coningham Conspiracy - Rosaleen Norton - Jim Cairns and Judy Morosi -- Wild: Drover's wife - Little boy lost - Shark! - Harold Holt - Crocodile -- Monsters: John Giles Price - Caroline Grills - Beaumont children's killer - Port Arthur massacre - Ivan Milat -- Grog:Rum rebellion - John Norton - 'I allus has wan at eleven' - Chloe - Bob Hawke -- Stage: Recruiting Officer - Summer of the seventeenth doll - Barry Humphries - Hair - Cameron Mackintosh -- Deaths: Pozieres - Ronald Ryan - Michael Hutchence - Kerry Packer - Steve Irwin and Peter Brock -- Upheavals: Immigration - Conscription - The Split - The Dismissal - Azaria Chamberlain -- Films: Kokoda frontline - Overlanders - Man fron Snowy River - Crocodile Dundee - Shine -- Speeches: Lalor - Blamey - Evatt - Blainey -Pearson.
ISBN:
9781741784084 (hbk)
Dewey class:
994 WHY
Local class:
994
Language:
English
BRN:
5248
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994 WHY | Available |