The core knowledge for every Australian and the basic briefing for every visitor.
Here's the essential stuff you learned at school and then forgot, plus all the useful stuff they never taught you.
- Our biggest, wettest, smartest, richest and most mysterious places, people and achievements.
- How Australia changed from being one of the dullest countries on earth to one of the liveliest, in a single generation.
- The taxes we pay and how our governments spend them.
- The truth about our icons: Vegemite, Ned Kelly, meat pies, the Hills Hoist, Elle Macpherson and the Easter Bilby.
- Why the tall poppy syndrome is our healthiest national trait.
- The only tow politicians and the only two billionaires that matter.
- How Australians talk, eat, gamble and drink.
