Fair Share: Country and City in Australia; Quarterly Essay 42

by Judith Brett

Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images of the nation being built in the great south land...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863955267
• ISBN13: 9781863955263
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Quarterly Essay
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"