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Prologue: Nothing Happens (60,000 BC - 1770 AD) Ch.1 Cook Shirtfronts A New Land (1770) Ch.2 Biting The Onion Of Opportunity (1788-1799) Ch.3 Totally Peaceful Pastoral Expansion, 1800-1850 Ch.4 Gold: Nature’s Suppositories of Wealth (1850-1880) Ch.5 Bush Poetry From Arsehole To Breakfast (1880-1914)

Tim Lyons@picketer.bsky.social

Special piece just for @tomwestland.bsky.social this morning: Shamston on a new book about Australian history by Tone.

20/6/25, 11:54 pm32 reposts80 likes

jcd

@jcd-au.bsky.social

21 June 2025

And infuriatingly, sadly and shamefully, so many Australians not only still cling to this fiction, but defend it as if their life depends on it

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

21 June 2025

Ch.6 The Most Important Thing Ever Happens (1914-1918) Ch.7 Um, Phryne Fisher Maybe? (1919-1939) Ch.8 Here’s Why Ben Chifley Would Be In The Liberal Party Today (1939-1945) Ch.9 Menzies Presides Over A Perfect Era Of Harmony And Order (1949-1966)

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

21 June 2025

Ch.10: Women Get Some Funny Notions, Also Vietnam (1967-1971) Ch.11 [pages missing] Ch.12 Australian Culture Reaches A State Of Unrepeatable Perfection (1976-1982) Ch.13 A Brief History of Expo ‘88 (1983-1996) Ch.14 Australian History Comes To A Triumphant Conclusion (1996-2006) Index