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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3
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'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

Notes

  • Author's note: In memory of Frazer Allan 1966-2001

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2021 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2nd November 2021.
      ISBN: 9781760640156 (pbk), 9781743822043 (ebk)

Works about this Work

David Hunt : Girt Nation Bernard Whimpress , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , June 2023;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction
y separately published work icon David Hunt in Conversation Mikey Robins (presenter), 2022 24383613 2022 single work podcast

'David Hunt in conversation about the latest volume of his Unauthorised History of Australia series, Girt Nation.' 

Book Review : Girt Nation, David Hunt Erich Mayer , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2021;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction

'An amusing and incisive commentary makes this history an irresistible read.'

David Hunt, Girt Nation Adam Ford , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 December 2021;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction

'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)

David Hunt, Girt Nation Adam Ford , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 December 2021;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction

'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)

David Hunt : Girt Nation Bernard Whimpress , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , June 2023;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction
Book Review : Girt Nation, David Hunt Erich Mayer , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2021;

— Review of Girt Nation : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 3 David Hunt , 2021 single work non-fiction

'An amusing and incisive commentary makes this history an irresistible read.'

y separately published work icon David Hunt in Conversation Mikey Robins (presenter), 2022 24383613 2022 single work podcast

'David Hunt in conversation about the latest volume of his Unauthorised History of Australia series, Girt Nation.' 

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