Dimensions
183 x 304 x 14mm
An Irreverent Look At Australia From The '50s To The '80s
Barry Humphries, one of Australia's sharpest social commentators, charts the evolution of Australian society from the fastidious fifties to the extravagant eighties in this light-hearted and insightful retrospective. This book delivers hilarious insights into the history and culture of a lively and often eccentric country, drawing upon Barry Humphries' own observations to review the people, events, obsessions, fads, fashions and music that defined Australia.
Edna Everage bestows wisdom on interior decoration, social etiquette and immigration, Sir Les Patterson talks politics, the sexual revolution and his friendships with those at the top, Sandy Stone ponders nervous breakdowns, the arrival of television and Australia's own lamington, and a host of other people, real and fictitious, offer their views on what it was - and is - to be Australian.
Based on a major four-part television series.
