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Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right. It was a time when Australians fought for social change – on union picket lines, at rallies for women's rights and against nuclear weapons, and as part of a new environmental movement. And then there were the events that left many scratching their heads: Joh for Canberra... the Australia Card... Cliff Young. In The Eighties, Frank Bongiorno brings all this and more to life. He sheds new light on ‘both the ordinary and extraordinary things that happened to Australia and Australians during this liveliest of decades'. Shortlisted for the 2016 Ernest Scott Prize, the 2016 CHASS Australia Prize and the 2016 NSW Premier's History Prize. ‘The definitive account of an inspired, infuriating decade'—George Megalogenis ‘A very impressive achievement'—the Monthly ‘Meaty and entertaining'—the Australian Frank Bongiorno is professo

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Author

Frank Bongiorno

Publisher

Black Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781863957762

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities