Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History Of Australia Volume 3 Av David Hunt

<h3>The saga of Australia continues with ... <em>GIRT NATION</em></h3><p>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.</p><p><em>Girt Nation</em> 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!''</p><p>Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against th

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