'The saga of Australia continues with… GIRT NATION
'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.'
Source : publisher's blurb
'David Hunt in conversation about the latest volume of his Unauthorised History of Australia series, Girt Nation.'
'An amusing and incisive commentary makes this history an irresistible read.'
'Girt Nation is the third volume of David Hunt’s Unauthorised History of Australia, following on from 2013’s Girt and 2016’s True Girt. The series is ostensibly a wry retelling of the history of Australia, with volume three covering the decades between the 1850s gold rush and Federation in 1901.' (Introduction)
'Girt Nation is the third volume of David Hunt’s Unauthorised History of Australia, following on from 2013’s Girt and 2016’s True Girt. The series is ostensibly a wry retelling of the history of Australia, with volume three covering the decades between the 1850s gold rush and Federation in 1901.' (Introduction)
'An amusing and incisive commentary makes this history an irresistible read.'
'David Hunt in conversation about the latest volume of his Unauthorised History of Australia series, Girt Nation.'