A Very Australian Conversation
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A Very Australian Conversation
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Author : Peter Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2009
A Very Australian Conversation written by Peter Cosgrove and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
General Cosgrove said, "I am honoured to be asked to deliver this year's Boyer Lectures and look forward to engaging in a very Australian conversation around themes and issues that are affecting our nation now and into the future." Each year the ABC invites a prominent Australian to present the result of his or her work and thinking on major social, scientific or cultural issues in a series of radio talks known as the Boyer Lectures.This annual lecture began in 1959 and is named after the late Sir Richard Boyer, a former Chairman of the ABC. Over the years featured speakers have come from a very broad range of disciplines and interests. Previous Boyer Lecturers include: former Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane, Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen, international affairs expert Owen Harries, historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey, author David Malouf, former Prime Minister (then head of the ACTU) Bob Hawke, Aboriginal leader and lawyer Noel Pearson and Professor Graeme Clark AC.
Boyer Lectures 2009
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Author : Peter Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2011-01-17
Boyer Lectures 2009 written by Peter Cosgrove and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-17 with Political Science categories.
What are Australia's 'barbecue stopper' conversations right now? What are the things we talk and worry about? the 2009 ABC Boyer Lecturer is our best-known military officer, General Peter Cosgrove - an Australian Everyman whose interests are our own. As a father, General Cosgrove is concerned about the world we will leave to future generations. As a proud Australian, he is interested in how migration changed our sense of national identity. As an ex-soldier his life was about guaranteeing our national security. And as a leader, he is interested in accountability and integrity, and how the ability to build a team and communicate ideas makes for successful leadership. touching on such pressing issues as climate change, the debate about a republic and a Bill of Rights, refugees, assimilation, and our relationship with our neighbours in the Pacific, Indonesia and the great power of the United States and China, General Cosgrove engages us with insight and experience in A VERY AUStRALIAN CONVERSAtION.
Mateship
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Author : Nick Dyrenfurth
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2015-01-05
Mateship written by Nick Dyrenfurth and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-05 with History categories.
A ‘mate’ is a mate, right? Wrong, argues Nick Dyrenfurth in this provocative new look at one of Australia’s most talked-about beliefs. In the first book-length exploration of our secular creed, one of Australia’s leading young historians and public commentators turns mateship’s history upside down. Did you know that the first Australians to call each other ‘mate’ were business partners? Or that many others thought that mateship would be the basis for creating an entirely new society — namely, a socialist one? For some, the term ‘mate’ is ‘the nicest word in the English language’; for others, it represents the very worst features in our nation’s culture: conformity, bullying, corruption, racism, and misogyny. So what does mateship really mean? Covering more than 200 years of white-settler history, Mateship demonstrates the richness and paradoxes of the Antipodean version of fraternity, and how everyone — from the early convicts to our most recent prime ministers, on both sides of politics — have valued it. PRAISE FOR NICK DYRENFURTH ‘[A] detailed, nuanced and readable study, which charts the evolution of the concept in all its complexity’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘[A] provocative and insightful book … the first significant exploration of what the author terms “our secular egalitarian creed” since Russel Ward’s path-breaking 1958 work The Australian Legend.’ The Australian
Making Australia
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Author : John Thornhill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Making Australia written by John Thornhill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Brief theological interpretation of the Dreaming; brief summary of attitudes to, and history of Aboriginal people
The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical And Anecdotal
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Author : John Camden Hotten
language : en
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Release Date : 1874
The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical And Anecdotal written by John Camden Hotten and has been published by London : Chatto and Windus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with English language categories.
Talking To My Country
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Author : Stan Grant
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Talking To My Country written by Stan Grant and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country’s flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A legacy of racism stood between him and the opportunities that white Australia - the so-called Lucky County - seemed awash with. But Grant was lucky enough to find an escape route through education. Finding early inspiration in the writing of James Baldwin and fellow indigenous activists at the Australian National University, on completing his studies he went on to become one of the country's leading journalists. As a correspondent for CNN he travelled extensively, covering conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Struck by how common humanity can live on in the face of repression and mass destruction - from North Korea to Pakistan to Baghdad - the lives of individuals he met spoke to him of sacrifice, endurance, and the undying call of family and homeland. And in the stories of other dispossessed peoples, he saw that of his own. In Talking To My Country, Grant draws on his own life and community to respond to the ongoing racism that he sees around him. He writes with passion and striking candour of the sorrow, shame, anger, and hardship of being an indigenous man. Forthright and unblinking, Stan reaches beyond his own heritage to show how the effects of colonialism and racism are everyday realities that still shape our world, and how we should never grow complacent in the fight to overcome them.
Understanding Everyday Australian
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Author : Susan Boyer
language : en
Publisher: Boyer Educational Resources
Release Date : 2007
Understanding Everyday Australian written by Susan Boyer and has been published by Boyer Educational Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
This book, along with its audio recording, has been designed to help intermediate students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday situations in Australia.
Explain That
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Author : Felicity Lewis (ed.)
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2021-11-02
Explain That written by Felicity Lewis (ed.) and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Social Science categories.
Have you ever wondered if time travel is actually possible? Or where the Australian accent came from? Or what it feels like to have dementia? If you’re an inquisitive person who likes to understand how things came to be the way they are, this collection of thought-provoking explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has got you covered. Explain That answers some of the year’s – and life’s – most baffling questions. Thoroughly researched and eloquently set out by some of Australia’s finest journalists, it provides nourishment for curious minds and fun facts to share with friends and family. What do sharks want (and why do they bite)? How do you win an Oscar? Who thought up table manners? Funny, weird and insightful topics are inventively illustrated and embellished with diagrams, pictures and factoids. If you like to learn new things, if you enjoy trivia or you want to reflect on some of the big questions, this is the book for you. Absorbing, illuminating and always engaging, Explain That is for anyone who has ever asked how and why?
Understanding Everyday Australian Book One
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Author : Susan Boyer
language : en
Publisher: Boyer Educational Resources
Release Date : 1998
Understanding Everyday Australian Book One written by Susan Boyer and has been published by Boyer Educational Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
'Understanding Everyday Australian - Book One' includes a student & teacher's book plus an audio resource.
Understanding Everyday Australian
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Author : Susan Boyer
language : en
Publisher: Boyer Educational Resources
Release Date : 2015-05-29
Understanding Everyday Australian written by Susan Boyer and has been published by Boyer Educational Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-29 with Education categories.
This book, along with its audio recording, has been designed to help intermediate students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday situations in Australia.