The great mistakes of Australian history
By: edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts.
Contributors: Crotty, Martin, 1969-; Roberts, David Andrew, 1969-
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press; UNSW Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Errors -- History -- Anecdotes.; Australia -- History -- Anecdotes.; Australia -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Contemplating the role of mistakes in Australia's past / Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts; title: Indigenous peoples. 'They would speedily abandon the country to the new comers' : the denial of aboriginal rights / David Andrew Roberts; title: Shelley's mistake : the Parramatta Native Institute and the stolen generations / Peter Read; title: The Australian environment. The Burke and Wills phenomenon : trial and error in the conquest of Australia / Alan Atkinson; title: Agrarian ideals and pastoral realities : the use and misuse of land in rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse; title: A curse upon the land : foxes and cane toads / Manda Page and Greg Baxter; title: 'An architectural monstrosity'? : the Cahill Expressway and town planning / Paul Ashton; title: War. Naive militarism : Australia's World War I generation / Martin Crotty; title: A great and impotent friend : the Singapore strategy / David Day; title: The enemy within : wartime internment of enemy aliens / Ilma O'Brien; title: Politics and trade. 'Another Singapore'? : Australia turns away from Asia / Marion Diamond; title: States of mind : federation and the problematic constitution / Clive Moore; title: Guarding the flood gates : the removal of non-Europeans, 1945-49 / Klaus Neumann; title: (Mis)adventures in brinkmanship : Whitlam and the Governor-General / Wayne Reynolds.