![]() ![]() Institutions and ideas to make it their own. ![]() This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, ![]() For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.Show moreĪustralia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. Y, institutions and ideas to make it their own. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technolog Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. ![]()
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