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Australians All : A History of Growing Up from the Ice Age to the Apology, Hardback Book

Australians All : A History of Growing Up from the Ice Age to the Apology Hardback

Illustrated by Ken Searle

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'I love history because it is story, but the very best thing about this story is that it is not finished.

All of us are making history every moment of our lives.' Nadia Wheatley..Australians All encompasses the history of our continent from the Ice Age to the Apology, from the arrival of the First Fleet to the Mabo Judgement.

Brief accounts of the lives of real young Australians open up this chronological narrative.

Some of the subjects of the eighty mini-biographies have become nationally or even internationally famous.

Others were legends in their own families and communities.

Meticulously researched, beautifully written and highly readable, Australians All helps us understand who we are, and how we belong to the land we all share.

It also shows us who we might be...'In Australian histories there is a particular group whose tales and presence and concerns are rarely narrated.

These are the children and adolescents. They are depicted as mute sufferers of the decisions of elders (as were the children of the Depression), helpless victims of policy (the Stolen Generations) and the children of the Second World War (of whom I was one). They appear in most writing of history as mere passive accessories to what adults do.

But their stories are our stories too, and their stories are our history, and Nadia Wheatley, that great writer, tells that wide-ranging story in a way so imaginative and colourful that it would attract any young person, and make young readers feel that many of their personal struggles have been faced before, by children of the past and present.

Nadia has performed an essential service to history and the young.' - Thomas Keneally..

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