Amazing Australian Books
Plenty of books are published in Australia every
year, below we have started a small selection of the most amazing
ones, though we expect this page to get a lot bigger!
The Latham Diaries
Before it even hit the book shops the whole country was already
talking about it; The Latham Diaries.
In this amazing book Mark Latham manages to insult just about every
senior Labor politician, from the current party leader Kim Beazley
all the way back to Gough Whitlam.
Some highlights of his latest book include;
- Richard Butler; has not resigned as Governor of Tasmania but was
sacked for getting pissed at the Royal wedding in Denmark.
- Kevin Rudd; treacherous, nasty piece of work, addicted to the
media and leaking. A junior minister in government, at best.
- Kim Beazley; indecent, dirty dog, stands for nothing and does
nothing.
- Amanda van Stone; junker guts.
- Bob McMullan; combover
- Bob Carr; A grade asshole
John Howard's party thought this book was the best thing since sliced
bread and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Mark Latham is the author
of five other books on Australian public policy, including Civilising
Global Capital (1998) and From the Suburbs (2003).
Click
here to order the Latham Diaries from the online Aussie bookshop
Buyaustralian.com
A Fortunate Life
True story of the life and adventures of Albert Facey in the early
1900s who worked on the Kalgoorlie goldfields, outback cattle stations
and fought in the Second World War. The book was originally published
by the Fremantle Arts Press in 1981. Later it was published by Penguin
and became so popular that it sold over a quarter of a million copies
and was made into a TV mini-series. He wrote his book in the town
of Wickepin, about 200 km south east of Perth where you can visit
his house which is now the premier tourist attraction of this town.
A Secret Country
Book by John Pilger that looks indepth at Australians dirty secrets
like the white Australia policy, the dismissal, treatment of aboriginals
etc. It makes for interesting comparison with our history books.
Climate change
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Is climate change really happening and does
it matter? The answer from the scientific community is a resounding
yes, yet debates about the reality of climate change and what
measures to take are slowing our response. Barrie Pittock,
one of the world’s leading climate researchers, argues
that we need to act urgently to avoid increasingly severe
climate change.
Climate Change: Turning up the Heat explains how our attitudes
to risk and uncertainty – constant companions in life
– influence our decision making and, ultimately, how
much we and future generations stand to lose from rapid climate
change. Our climate takes a long time to alter so what we
do now will have impacts decades later; we must encourage
market forces to think long term.
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In a sunburned country
Manning Clark
Historian that died in 1991 who wrote A History Of Australia; a
publication in six volumes about white settlement in Australia
Peter Carey
Now lives in New York but wrote some good books about
Australia, we especially liked ' The true history of the Kelly Gang
'. Based on historical records and diaries this book gives us an
insight in to the hard life in the late 1800's where Irish ex-convict
settlers are continuously harrassed by the corrupt police (of English
background ) who are always out to jail them for theft or other
crimes, no matter if they have done them or not. Ned Kelly has several
run-ins with them, has a wild life with plenty of fights and a drunk
uncle that burns down the family house, he does his first jail time
at fifteen, and although he usually does his best to abide by the
law, he shoots his first man at the age of fifteen to defend a bushranger
friend.
Ned sticks to working on the family farm and honest paid employment
as much as he can but with the police who hate the Irish making
up criminal charges from time to time he simply can't help getting
in trouble with the law from time to time.
The Bugle's Dictionary
This book has been described as the filthiest book
in Australia, Melbourne-based author Andrew Pegler has managed to
compile over a thousand descriptions of genitalia, copulation and
bodily functions.
The Day My Bum Went Psycho
42 year old Melbourne author Andy Griffiths cashes
in on the fact that children usually find farting and anything to
do with it extremely funny and has written several mega selling
epic works so far. "The day my bum went psycho" was such
a success that he followed it up with another literary marvel titled
"Zombie bums from Uranus". In 2003 Andy had no less than
seven books in the Australian book top 15, and sold more than 180,000
books that year bringing in over $2 million dollars! For 2005 he
has planned another epic; Bumageddon; the final conflict. Also American
kids loved his books but the title was adapted to Zombie butts
from Uranus.
The Fatal Shore
In this book Robert Hughes describes the history of
convict life in Australia in a very good way.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
Australian doctor Philip Nietschke became famous for
his views that people who are beyond saving by medical science and
who are suffering pain should be allowed to die, he pushed his views
through to the point where he assisted some people to end their
lives and even invented a machine that produced carbon- monoxide
that people could use to end ther lives but customs officers confiscated
this machine when he was on his way to a conference in the U.S.
He was also involved in introducing the Northern Territory's euthanasia
laws that were overturned within several weeks by Federal Government,
only three terminally ill people had been able to utilize the law
to end their suffering. In 2004 he launced his suicide pill and
a film about a 79 year old American academic woman who was healthy
but had decided she wanted to die before turning 80.
He wrote a book titled ' The Peaceful Pill Handbook ' but had his
first print run confiscated at customs arriving back from the U.S.
, later the Office of Film and Literature Classification cleared
the book and he was allowed to print and distribute the book in
Australia.
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