Preface
Introduction
A Note on Australian English
Unit 1 The Spell of the Bush
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Unit 2 Mateship and Empire Loyalty
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Unit 3 Anti-authoritarianism and Sympathy for the
Underdog
Robbery under Arms
Caddie
Unit 4 Pride and National Innocence
The Man from Snowy River
Phar Lap
Unit 5 Women's Role in Sociey
My Brilliant Career
We of the Never Never
Unit 6 The Plight of the Australian Aborigines
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Fringe Dwellers
Unit 7 Post-war Changes in Australian Society
Newsfront
Silver City
Unit 8 Post-Apocalypse Prophecies
Mad Max
Unit 9 Relationship between Man and Nature
Storm Boy
Burke and Wills
Unit 10 The Modern Legend of the Sun-Bronzed Aussie
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee II
Unit 11 Crime and Corruption
The Empty Beach
Unit 12 Constitutional Crisis of 1975
The Dismissal
Selected Bibliography