True blue?
Subtitle: on being Australian
By: general editor, Peter Goldsworthy.
Contributors: Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951-
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781741750591
Subjects: National characteristics, Australian -- Anecdotes; Australia -- Civilization -- Anecdotes; Anecdotes -- Australia
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of"--Provided by publisher.