Australian History For Dummies. Alex McDermott
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of the Postwar Dreamtime Suburbia! The Final Frontier The Rise and Rise of Bob Menzies Tackling the Communist Threat Chapter 19: Taking Things Apart in the 1960s and 1970s Moving On from Empire Attack of the Baby Boomers! Crashing — or Crashing Through — With Gough Chapter 20: When Old Australia Dies … Is New Australia Ready? The Coming of Malcolm Fraser Deregulation Nation Fighting the Culture Wars Battling Over Native Title
10 Part 6: 2000 and Beyond: Seeking Solutions to Global and Local Problems Chapter 21: Into the New Millennium Still Dealing with the Outside World Facing Up to Challenges at Home Chapter 22: Facing Off Between Two Australias A Dozen Years with a Changing Beat The Australian Cavalcade of Events Tackling Three Seriously Significant Issues Leaders, Politics, Culture and Two Australias
11 Part 7: The Part of Tens Chapter 23: Ten Things Australia Gave the World The Boomerang The Ticket of Leave System The Secret Ballot The Eight-Hour Day Feature Films The Artificial Pacemaker The Practical Application of Penicillin Airline Safety Devices Permaculture Spray-on Skin Chapter 24: Ten Game-Changing Moments Cook Claims the East Coast of Australia Henry Kable Claims a Suitcase — and Rights for Convicts Gold Discovered Women Get the Vote in South Australia and Federally Building a Fortress out of Australia — the White Australia Policy Australia splits over Conscription Australia on the Western Front The Post–World War II Migration Program Lake Mungo Woman Mabo
12 Index
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Aboriginal Australia pre–European settlement.
2 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: European settlement of Australia really expanded from the 1820s.
3 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The establishment of Australian colonies, up to 1851.FIGURE 8-2: A banner commemorating the achievement of an eight-hour working day...
4 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: The routes travelled by Sturt, Leichhardt, Burke and Wills and Stua...
5 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: A 1915 recruitment poster.
6 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Front cover of a handbook of farming advice for new settlers in th...FIGURE 14-2: Cartoon from 1916, highlighting what many returned soldiers felt w...
7 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: By 1942, the area under Japanese control included parts of the Pac...
8 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: An emigration poster from 1948.
9 Chapter 21FIGURE 21-1: Cathy Freeman lighting the flame at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Guide
1 Cover
4 Table of Contents
6 Index
7 About the Author
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