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A social history of Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nation What did kids do in the 1950s when there were no smartphones, tablets, and computers? They roamed the neighbourhood on scooters and bikes. They went on bush hikes. They went to Saturday matinees where the theatres were packed to the rafters, and kids yelled at hero-action and booed kissing. Most ...

The author was one a multitude outraged by the media's role in the Princess of Wales's tragic death in August 1997. Like most, he thought the media had hunted her to death. Roused to indignant anger, he got to work and had a book ready for publication about eighteen months later. This present book is a reorganized, rewritten, chopped-up, added-to, and expanded version of that book with a sharpened refocus. In that first book, he was keen to ex...

2021 REVISED EDITION AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL HISTORY. The author intertwines three themes: the character of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott as displayed in his fearless no-holds battle with the far-left radicals at Sydney University (1976-1980), what it means to be a philosophical conservative in a leftist world, and the author's critique of the student rebellion and the radicalism driving it. The author lived through the tumultuous years of th...

SECOND EDITION Revised 2022 A history of colonial Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nation In this first book of the series, A HISTORY OF A CATHOLIC FAMILY, the author sets out on a journey through Australia's colonial history with his ancestors, who gradually take on flesh and blood from the bone-dry official documents. All his ancestors are from British ...