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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Black Inc., 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's paradise', and the historian who explained why. The two reporters who realised the true signif.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:9781922231536
1922231533