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Author Cathcart, Michael, 1956- author

Title Stirring Australian speeches : the definitive collection from Botany to Bali / edited by Michael Cathcart and Kate Darian-Smith
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2004

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 MELB  827.008401 C362/S  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Part One: 1788-1899 -- Part Two: 1900-1949 -- Part Three: 1950-2002
Summary "Stirring Australian Speeches" is the definitive collection of speeches and public addresses from Australian public life. Politicians, scientists, judges, explorers, artists, the famous and the infamous, comment on the great issues and figures of their day. The speakers range from Governor Arthur Phillip to Sir William Deane, Louisa Lawson to Germaine Greer, Peter Lalor to Pauline Hanson. The subjects stretch from white settlement to the Mabo decision, Eureka to Gallipoli, the banning of the Communist Party to the 2002 bombing in Bali, the art of Sheffield Shield cricket in the nineteenth century to the state of arts funding in recent times. Discriminately chosen and carefully contextualised, the speeches in this collection are fully introduced, and complemented by a useful index
Analysis Australian essays & speeches (Australia)
Social history
Public speaking
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 358-360
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate
General
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., Australian.
Author Darian-Smith, Kate.
Cathcart, Michael, 1956-
LC no. 98221559
ISBN 0522846815