Australian history general?
What's a good history of Australia?
>>353546
bunch of convicts get dropped off on a island, wage war against the emu overlords, need abos to help, win war, tell abos to fuck off..and here we are
>>353574
/thread
Any of you lads read Manning Clarke?
>>353546
Connell & Irving, Class Structure in Australian History.
>>353616
Don't for fucks sake. Read some Scates. Or Noel Butlin.
Notable things invented by Australians:
AFL
Fridges
Underwater torpedoes
Electric drills
Notepads
Froth flotation
Tanks
Pacemakers
Zinc cream
Rotary clothes lines
Black boxes
Power board
Bionic ears
Gene shears
Flu medication
Blast glass
Wi-Fi
>>353720
Note how he said "by Australians" and not "in Australia"
>>353546
The Tyranny of Distance
>>353726
The most important thing there was made in Australia by Australians for Australians.
And so what if some other country had more money to blow on the inventions?
>>353735
AFL?
>>353546
The Dutch think Western Australia would be a good place to settle.
The British think Eastern Australia would be a good place to dumb prisoners.
(Ooo that juxtaposition)
basically a mostly uninhabited BIG rock became inhabited because the british wanted to scare its prisoner overflow with spiders.
And then they needed to make a place of origin for the Tasmanian Devil cartoon, so they invented Tasmania, which is such a joke of a place it looks like a prolapsed anus.
>>353747
You fuckin know it m8
>>353726
Nobody said "by Australians".
>>353546
Abbos, then convicts, then migrants.
Also Abbos being classified as wildlife is a myth. They were simply not counted towards the national population. While Europeans could be super brutal against them they ever tried something that silly.
>>353546
This should go through most of them
Haven't read it, but Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australias best historians
Australia is actually a reality show. It has been since the very beginning. The abos weren't pulling in the ratings so convicts were dropped off to mix things up.
If you're an aussie and don't know what is happening in this image, or where it was in the country, you should be shipped to Christmas Island.
>>354065
was that when boony necked the 52 beers?
>>354095
oi oi oi
>>353747
Absolutely
Seriously though, Australia is a very interesting case study of a young western nation in the so called Washminster system.
>>353764
fucking idiot
>tfw uluru used to be ayer's rock
