3. Table of Contents

Introduction
Scene from a Penal Colony
Price Warung (William Astley) How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned his Breakfast

Scenes from Aboriginal Australia
Katharine Susannah Prichard: Marlene
Thea Astley: Heart Is Where the Home Is
Archie Weller: Going Home

Scenes from Rural Australia
William Lawson: The Drover’s Wife
Alan Marshall: Trees Can Speak
John Morrison: The Children

Scenes from Urban Australia
Tim Winton: Neighbours
Marjorie Barnard: The Lottery

Additional Material
1. Some Important Dates in Australian History
2. Population Statistics
3. Alexander Maconochie and Penal Reform
4. The Healing of the Nation – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd´s Speech
5. Aboriginal Prison Rates Increasing
6. Myths and Contradictions
7. The Australian Gold Rush
8. Bushfire Museum Would Help Stricken Communities
9. Four Elements that Shaped the Australian Imagination

 

 

 

Australian Short Stories

1. Objective