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A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers: 1880-1920 (Fair Dinkum Histories #5) by Jackie French
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The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories 6 - Weevils W by FRENCH Jackie
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1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: Qantas founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
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1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts & Bushfires by Jackie French
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Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our landand the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a r ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 (Fair Dinkum Histories #4) by Jackie French
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Category: Reference | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels . . . Australia would never be ...Show more
Grim Crims and Convicts: 1788-1820 (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
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It was an incredible idea-to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just savages in huts. The Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about this place for two hundred years-and had turned their noses up at it. The ...Show more
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