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Great Mistakes of Australian History.
Blunders, stuff-ups and misjudgments are a part of any country's history. Dwelling on what might have been isn't always helpful, but recognizing our mistakes and learning from them is important. In this highly original and provocative book leading Australian historians attempt to do just t...
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Chicago :
University of New South Wales Press,
2012.
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- Cover; About the Authors; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts; Indigenous Peoples; 1. 'They Would Speedily Abandon the Country to the New Comers':The Denial of Aboriginal Rights David Andrew Roberts; 2. Shelley's Mistake:The Parramatta Native Institution and the Stolen Generations Peter Read; The Australian Environment; 3. The Burke and Wills Phenomenon: Trial and Error in the Conquest of Australia Alan Atkinson.
- 4. Agrarian Ideals and Pastoral Realities:The Use and Misuse of Land in Rural Australia Richard Waterhouse5. A Curse Upon the Land: Foxes and Cane Toads Manda Page and Greg Baxter; 6. 'An Architectural Monstrosity'?:The Cahill Expressway and Town Planning Paul Ashton; War; 7. Naive Militarism: Australia's World War I Generation Martin Crotty; 8. A Great and Impotent Friend:The Singapore Strategy David Day; 9. The Enemy Within:Wartime Internment of Enemy Aliens Ilma O'Brien; Politics and Trade; 10. 'Another Singapore'? Australia Turns Away from Asia Marion Diamond.
- 11. States of Mind: Federation and the Problematic Constitution Clive Moore12. Guarding the Flood Gates:The Removal of Non-Europeans, 1945-49 Klaus Neumann; 13. (Mis)adventures in Brinkmanship:Whitlam and the Governor-General Wayne Reynolds; Notes; Index.