The Words that Made Australia edited by Chris Feik & Robert Manne loss But too often we ask

But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave

Knox reveals the unavoidable and often intimidating tactics both companies use to get their way

Baker looks at the dramatic and sudden changes we’re making to our planet and its biosphere and how history hints at what might come next

and an unforgettable woman at its centre

The Words that Made Australia edited by Chris Feik & Robert Manne loss But too often we askThis is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries that take us from Federation to the present day, and tell a story of national self discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's paradise', and the