Disasters that Changed Australia

By: Richard Evans

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Paperback | 1 October 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed.

In Disasters that Changed Australia, historian Richard Evans nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia we know today.

From natural phenomena such as Cyclone Tracy, the great drought and the Ash Wednesday and Black Friday fires, to key moments in our military history such as the battle at Flanders in 1917 and the fall of Singapore, to the drug wars and the Snowy Mountains scheme, Disasters that Changed Australia is an essential guide to understanding the people, the ideas and the events that defined the course of Australia's history.

It is also a call for Australia to re-examine its past, look beneath the familiar comforting stories, and rethink how Australians have responded to disaster.

About the Author

Richard Evans is a Melbourne writer and historian. He has worked as a journalist on newspapers and legal magazines, and was a lecturer in journalism at RMIT University. He has a PhD in Australian history from Monash University, and is the author of The Pyjama Girl Mystery - A true story of murder obsession and lies and co-author of Constructing Australia. His work has appeared in HQ, Quadrant, The Age, Overland and The Republican, and been broadcast on ABC Radio National.

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Natural Disasters History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History

Introduction	p. v
Divine Wind: Cyclone Tracy, 1974	p. 1
'Just Slaughter': Flanders, 1917	p. 21
Destroying the Promised Land: The Great Resource Crash, c. 40 000 BC	p. 57
The Tasmanian Genocide: 1804-1838	p. 69
Feral Nation: Rabbits, 1859 to the Present	p. 85
Black Friday, 1939 and Beyond	p. 103
The Depression: 1930-1939	p. 123
The Great White Elephant: The Snowy Mountains Scheme, 1949-1974	p. 141
Fool's Gold: Montreal Olympic Games, 1976	p. 155
The Great Drought: 2002 to the Present	p. 167
Sources and Further Reading	p. 179
Acknowledgments	p. 197
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