Symbols of Australia
By: edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White .
Publisher: Univ. of New South Wales Press; National Museum of Australia Press; University of New South Wales Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW; Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781921410505
Description: An authoritative yet entertaining and often surprising survey of 26 of Australias best-known symbols the official, the popular, the commercial, the modern, the obsolete, the loved, the feared. It uncovers what they have meant over the years with a lot of quirky background and unexpected detail along the way.