Australia : what happened?
Pobjie, Ben2018
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Total copies: 2
When our politicians are too busy playing musical chairs to run the country, our cricketers are doing suspicious things with sandpaper, and a murderous starfish with twenty-one arms roams freely around the Great Barrier Reef it seems about time that as a nation we ask: how the heck did it come to this? In Australia - What Happened? Ben Pobjie turns an incredulous eye on the history of Australia to bust open the national mythology, reveal the truth about what it means to be an Australian and work out what happened to all our best-laid plans. What's the real story of the Aussie larrikin? How exactly did sheep ruin everything? What impact did the Gold Rush have on Australian culture? And what do you mean 'murderous starfish'? These questions and more are answered in this hilarious and historically accurate account of our wayward nation.
Main title:
Australia : what happened? / Ben Pobjie.
Author:
Pobjie, Ben, author
Imprint:
South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, [2018]©2018.
Collation:
vii, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781925712094
Dewey class:
994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
606937