Alex McDermott - Australian History For Dummies

Australian History For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here

5 Part 1: Let’s Get This Country Started Chapter 1: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie When Oldest Meets Newest Gold, Gold, Gold for Australia Solving the Problems of the World (By Keeping Out the World) Now for War, Division, Depression and More War The Postwar Boom Broom Breaking Down the Fortress Australia Mentality Entering the New Millennium Chapter 2: First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors Indigenous Australians Visitors from Overseas Chapter 3: Second Arrivals and First Colonials ‘Discovering’ the Great Southern Land The Brits are Coming! Sailing for Botany Bay Holding Out at Sydney New Colony Blues Chapter 4: Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles) Rising to the Task: The NSW Corps Steps Up Ruling with Goodhearted Incompetence: Governor Hunter King Came, King Saw, King Conquered — Kind Of Fixing up the mess Chapter 5: A Nation of Second Chances Macquarie’s Brave New World Macquarie’s Main Points of Attack Becoming a Governor Ahead of His Time Big World Changes for Little NSW Big Country? Big Ambitions? Bigge the Inspector? Big Problem! Recognising Macquarie’s Legacy

6 Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country Revamping the Convict System Getting Tough Love from Darling Enduring Tough Times from Arthur Hitting the Big Time with Wool and Grabbing Land Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism Bubble Times: From Speculative Mania to a Big Collapse Moving On from Convictism Feeling the First Stirrings of Nationalism Protecting Indigenous Australians — British Colonial Style Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche You want gold? We got gold! Working Towards the Workingman’s Paradise That Eureka Moment The Arrival of Self-Government Unlocking the Arable Lands Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers … and Trains Explorer Superstars Sturt and Leichhardt Go Looking The Great Race — Stuart versus Burke and Wills Selectors and Bushrangers Ned Kelly: Oppressed Selector’s Son? Larrikin Wild Child? Stone-cold killer? Growing Towards Nationhood … Maybe Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom The ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ Continues Workers’ Playtime The Big Myth of the Bush: Not So Rural Australia Rearranging the Political Furniture Chapter 11: The Economy’s Collapsed — Anyone for Nationhood? From Boom to Bust Birthing the Australian Labor Party New Nation? Maybe. Maybe Not.

7 Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday Advancing Australia: A Social Laboratory Defining the Commonwealth Passing Innovative Legislation Voting in Labor That Whole White Australia Thing Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures Gearing Up for Global War Australia at War Home Front Hassles Moving the Pieces around the Global Table: Australia at Versailles Chapter 14: Australia Unlimited Expanding Australia Australia Not-So-Unlimited Schizoid Nation The Workers of Australia …

8 Part 4: 1930 to 1949: Going So Wrong, So Soon? Chapter 15: A Not So Great Depression Crash and Depression A(nother) Labor Split Threats to Democracy from Best Friends and Enemies Mistakes and Resilience through the Crisis Celebrating 26 January 1938? Yes. Mourning and Protesting? Also yes. Chapter 16: World War II Battles Building Up to War Dealing with Early War Problems Overseas Again This Time It’s Personal: War in the Pacific Tackling Issues on the Home Front Chapter 17: Making Australia New Again Restarting the Social Laboratory Under Chifley Chifley’s Postwar Reconstruction Calwell and the Postwar Migration Revolution Shifting Balances with Foreign Policy Treading On an Ants’ Nest — of Angry Banks

9 Part 5: 1950 to 2000: Prosperity and Social Turmoil Chapter 18: Ambushed — by Prosperity! Economics of the Postwar Dreamtime Suburbia! The Final Frontier The Rise and Rise of Bob Menzies Tackling the Communist Threat Chapter 19: Taking Things Apart in the 1960s and 1970s Moving On from Empire Attack of the Baby Boomers! Crashing — or Crashing Through — With Gough Chapter 20: When Old Australia Dies … Is New Australia Ready? The Coming of Malcolm Fraser Deregulation Nation Fighting the Culture Wars Battling Over Native Title