Girt Nation. The Unauthorised History Of Australia. (Volume 3)

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 373 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The saga of Australia continues with… GIRT NATIONDavid Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australias transformation from aspiration to nation an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who werent going to take it anymore.Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan ‘like sand before the gale. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the ‘Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrisons communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power.

ISBN: 9781760640156