The Words that Made Australia edited by Chris Feik & Robert Manne loss This is an eloquent and

This is an eloquent and stimulating essay about a subject that has generated much heat in recent times: how we should record and regard the nation's past

But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave

and an unforgettable woman at its centre

this collection turns the rules of storytelling on their head

The Words that Made Australia edited by Chris Feik & Robert Manne loss This is an eloquent andThis is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries that take us from Federation to the present day, and tell a story of national self discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's paradise', and the