When travelling outside of Australia one is frequently confronted with stereotypes which, like stereotypes everywhere, bear litle or no resemblance to ones's own experience. for the dominant cultures of this world Australia is an exotic and faraway place and, accordingly, the myths are also exotic and far from real.
During the spring of 1991, I put a proposition to Paul Keating. He was the country's best-known backbencher at the time, residing in room 101 in the House of Representatives. I wanted to write an inside account of his still-unresolved contest with Bob Hawke for the prime ministereship.
This is a book about you--the impressions, the investigations, and the conclusions of a world-wanderer who spent a few months in your midst.rnsaif
Historically Australia appeals to the imagination by its curious lack of history. A continent, unstained by the crimson hand of war ; held still by the race which first wakened it to civilisation ; with but a peaceful sundering of its wide area into States and their subsequent reunion into a Federation as its record of political revolutions---has a past more happy than may be expected among theā¦
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