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Author : Random House Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780759310018
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda and Advance Australia Fair written by Random House Australia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin James Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Advance Australia Fair written by Colin James Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Dodds McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780207185991
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Advance Australia Fair written by Peter Dodds McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Australia's national anthem and illustrates it with paintings from some of Australia's finest artists including Fred McCubbin, Margaret Preston and Tom Roberts. Each painting depicts an aspect of the Australian landscape and culture and reflects the artist's view of the country.
Author : Dennis O'Keeffe
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742694446
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda written by Dennis O'Keeffe and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's history, Waltzing Matilda is as important to Australian culture as events like the Eureka Stockade and the story of Ned Kelly. In the middle of remote Queensland, shearing sheds were being burnt to the ground by striking union shearers, amid violent gun battles and sheep being burnt to death. A swagman mysteriously died beside a remote billabong, possibly shot by the squatter or one of the three policemen. Then a secret deal was done by unionists to conceal the truth of the swagman's death. Banjo Paterson becomes entangled in a love affair that destroys the lives of two women. This is the story of Waltzing Matilda. Although various authors and historians have written about Waltzing Matilda, mostly they have been influenced by their own political leanings. Generally, the left side of politics claim the song is a political allegory and the conservatives claim Waltzing Matilda is nothing but a 'meaningless little ditty'. All of them have neglected to consider in general that Banjo Paterson, like a lot of successful men, was a womaniser. One hundred and fifteen years after the writing of Waltzing Matilda, Australians continue to be fascinated with the song and sing it proudly wherever they meet to celebrate. Given the facts outlined in this story, they will be further captivated and embrace the song for decades to come.
Author : Andrew Barton Paterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741241846
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda written by Andrew Barton Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Armin Greder
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1925268942
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Australia to Z written by Armin Greder and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Australia to Z - an alphabet book, but not one for the young and teaching them their letters. Instead Armin Greder has cast his critical eye on us and our symbols.' Libby Gleeson 'Disquieting and potent - a gloves off" account of Australian nationhood, and how we, as a culture, might appear to those from other cultures. This is a profoundly significant work which will - like Greder's The Island and The City - provoke, disturb and challenge the reader's perception of what it means to be Australian, and what it means to be a global citizen.' Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright"
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522853087
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Once a Jolly Swagman written by Matthew Richardson and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Banjo' Paterson's 'Waltzing Matilda' is the one song that has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895, and the one song that belongs to all Australians.Generations of experts have argued about the original story that Paterson immortalised, about the origins of the tune, and about what Paterson meant by his almost parodic over-use of Australian colloquialisms.Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the song, and tells of its evolution up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions: where's the heroism in a suicidal thief? What was jolly about the jumbuck? Is 'Waltzing Matilda' the key to Australian values? What does it mean that a beloved song about Australia's pioneering past is written by a city lawyer?In this age of economic rationalism and a globalised world, how does a voice from the billabong saying, 'You'll come a waltzing matilda with me' still matter, and what does it tell us about ourselves?
Author : Andrew Barton Paterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda written by Andrew Barton Paterson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an old tramp who travels the Australian outback with his swag, his 'waltzing Matilda, ' on his back.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
Download or read book 'Waltzing Matilda' Or 'Advance Australia Fair?' written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Windschuttle
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 : 9781876492113
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The White Australia Policy written by Keith Windschuttle and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and shame in the Australian history wars. Many historians today argue that its immigration policy was once so shamefully racist that Australia was in danger of becoming an international pariah, like South Africa under apartheid. This book shows these claims are so exaggerated they lack all credibility. Australia is not, and never has been, the racist country its academic historians have condemned.
Author : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110181944
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Australia's Many Voices written by Gerhard Leitner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a comprehensive, descriptive, and sociohistorical view of mainstream Australian English and of the social processes that have made it possible for it to become the national language of Australia reaching out into the Asia-Pacific region.
Author : Sue Bradford Edwards
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098274563
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Australia written by Sue Bradford Edwards and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title highlights major destinations within Australia and the people who shape the nation's culture. Readers will learn about the geography, wildlife, history, people, and economy of Australia, gaining an understanding of what life looks like in the country today. Features include a glossary, a map, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Vijeya Rajendra
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761414735
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Australia written by Vijeya Rajendra and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history, geography, government, economy, environment, religion, people, and social life and customs of the island continent of Australia.
Author : Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Waltz with Matilda written by Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781863956116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Girt written by David Hunt and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to read it would be un-Australian. About the author: David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes for all the books he has written (one). He has worked as an historical consultant and comedy writer for television, and also has a proper job. "A sneaky, sometimes shocking peek under the dirty rug of Australian history." John Birmingham "Hilarious and insightful -- Hunt has found the deep wells of humour in Australia's history." Chris Taylor, The Chaser
Author : Neville Meaney
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320264
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Australia and the Wider World written by Neville Meaney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking probing questions about social change and the rise of nationalism, especially as found in the making of Australia's self-image and its engagement with the world. His efforts to unravel what he once called 'the riddle of Australian nationalism' have raised important, and often unsettling, challenges for Australians. Bringing together the cultural, intellectual, political and diplomatic dimensions of the national experience, Meaney's work has been dominated by two overarching and interconnected questions: how Australians should resolve the tension between the 'community of culture' and the 'community of interest' and how they should reconcile their British heritage with their Asian moorings?
Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822049
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Girt Nation written by David Hunt and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan 'like sand before the gale'. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the 'Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!' Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power. 'Makes you wish David Hunt had been your history teacher. Laugh-out-loud funny and you'll actually learn something.' —Mark Humphries 'An entertaining and instructive historical romp through the formative period of Australian nation-making with a colourful cast of rhymesters, revolutionaries, rebels, racists, reprobates and rabbits.' —Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University 'Once again, David Hunt uses his sharpened wit to chisel away at misconceptions from Australian history leaving us with the cold, hard truth of how our nation came to be.' —Osher Günsberg 'Australian history told intelligently, but with more humour than ever before ... Girt Nation is fabulous storytelling, putting meat on the bones of the national story.' —The Weekend Australian
