Introduction -- Overture -- The Workers Paradise -- The Anzac Landing -- The Gallipoli Letter -- Women in Australia -- Kangaroo -- The Australian Democracy -- The Foundations of Culture in Australia -- What is Significant in us will Survive -- The Forgotten
People -- The Culture Change -- Re-Writing Australian History -- The Australian Legend -- A Nice Nights Entertainment -- The Australian Ugliness -- The Lucky Country -- After the Dreaming -- Racists -- Australia as a Suburb -- Manzone Country -- The Real Matilda -- The Spectre of Truganini -- The End of Certainty -- From Three Cheers to The Black Armband -- The Future Eaters -- A spirit of Play -- Home-Grown Traditions -- Our Right to take Responsibility -- The New Liberalism -- The Fig, The Olive and The Pomegranate Tree.
This 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 historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries that take us from federation to the present-day.
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