The Eighties. The Decade That Transformed Australia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Collingwood
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 370 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Signed by Author

Publishers Description: It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the Americas Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right. It was a time when Australians fought for social change - on union picket lines, at rallies for womens rights and against nuclear weapons, and as part of a new environmental movement. And then there were the events that left many scratching their heads: Joh for Canberra . . . the Australia Card . . . Cliff Young. In The Eighties, Frank Bongiorno brings all this and more to life. He uncovers forgotten stories - of factory workers proud of their skills who found themselves surplus to requirements; of Vietnamese families battling to make new lives for themselves in the suburbs. He sheds new light on both the ordinary and extraordinary things that happened to Australia and Australians during this liveliest of decades. The Eighties is contemporary history at its best. Frank Bongiorno has successfully negotiated the minefield of Australias political egos to write the definitive account of an inspired, infuriating decade. - George Megalogenis Frank Bongiorno is associate professor of history at the Australian National University and author of the award-winning The Sex Lives of Australians. He has written for the Monthly, the Australian and Inside Story.

ISBN: 9781863957762