Australia - Was Life Simpler Yesterday?

By Michael Holding

Better off now, or just better connected? From 1950s homework to 2025 Zoom calls, from milk shakes to drones, this book compares work, love, crime, and the everyday chaos of life, then and now. Witty, sharp, and occasionally savage, it shows that progress may have arrived... but sanity is still negotiable.
In 1950s Australia, life was tangible and predictable, a factory job or a wheat field could sustain a family for a lifetime.

By 2025, the nation hums with digital networks, global markets, and screen-mediated lives, where work, community, and even leisure move at breakneck speed. Through the eyes of Jack Wilson, an urban fitter and turner, and Jack Sharp, a rural farmer.

Michael Holding charts the extraordinary transformation of the Australian identity. From the slow unraveling of the White Australia Policy to the rise of robotics, social media, and endless choice, this book asks the essential question: what have we gained in convenience and diversity, and what have we lost in stability and peace?

Michael Holding's latest release book, "Australia: Was it Simpler Yesterday " is a reflective, witty, and sharply observed journey through seventy years of social, cultural, and technological change-revealing that amid everything that shifts, human resilience endures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF7M3312
• ISBN13: 9798242790056
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"