Australia What Happened
by Ben Pobjie
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When our politicians are too busy playing musical chairs to run the country, our cricketers are doing suspicious things with sandpaper, and a murderous starfish with twenty-one arms roams freely around the Great Barrier Reef it seems about time that we, as a nation, ask a tough question: how the heck did it come to this? In Australia What Happened? TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie turns an incredulous eye on the history of Australia to bust open the national mythology, show more reveal the truth about what it means to be an Australian and work out what happened to all our best-laid plans. What's the real story of the Aussie larrikin? How exactly did sheep ruin everything? What impact did the Gold Rush have on Australian culture? And what do you mean 'murderous starfish'? All these questions and more will be answered in this hilarious and historically accurate account of our wayward nation. show lessTags
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Ben Pobjie is an Australian comedian, poet, and writer. He studied history at the University of Western Sydney. He pursued a career in comedy writing and is known for his TV columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and political satire for New Matilda, Crikey, and the ABC, among others. His books include Superchef, The Book of Bloke, and show more Error Australis. He has written for the TV shows Reality Check and The Unbelievable Truth. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 994 — History & geography History of Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Polar regions Australia
- LCC
- DU121 .P63 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Oceania (South Seas) History of Oceania (South Seas) Australia Ethnography
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