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The great mistakes of Australian history / edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts.

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ISBN	0868409952 (pbk.) :
ISBN	9780868409955
Title	The great mistakes of Australian history / edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts.
Published	Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2006.
Description	ix, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes	Includes index.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Indigenous peoples: The denial of Aboriginal rights ; The Parramatta Native Institution and the Stolen Generations -- The Australian environment: Trial and error in the conquest of Australia ; The use and misuse of land in rural Australia ; Foxes and cane toads ; The Cahill Expressway and town planning -- War: Australia's World War I generation ; The Singapore strategy ; Wartime internment of enemy aliens -- Politics and trade: Australia turns away from Asia ; Federation and the problematic constitution ; The removal of non-Europeans, 1945-49 ; Whitlam and the Governor-General.
Summary	This highly original approach to Australian history, includes the complete span of history, from white settlement, to the very recent past. It presents a provocative account of where we might have got it wrong.
Subjects	Australia -- History
Other Names	Crotty, Martin, 1969-
Other Names	Roberts, David Andrew, 1969-
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australia -- History . Authors: Crotty, Martin, 1969- . Roberts, David Andrew, 1969- .