Audible sampleGirt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3
Audible Audiobook – UnabridgedDavid Hunt (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
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From the best-selling author of Girt and True Girt, the saga of Australia continues....
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia’s transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren’t going to take it anymore.
Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan ‘like sand before the gale’. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the ‘Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for’!
Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison’s communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power.
David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes. He is the author of the best-selling Girt and True Girt, as well as two books for children.
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13 hours and 38 minutes
Author
David Hunt
Narrator
David Hunt
Audible release date
2 November 2021
Language
English
Publisher
Audible Studios
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Listening Length 13 hours and 38 minutes
Author David Hunt
Narrator David Hunt
Audible.com.au Release Date 02 November 2021
Publisher Audible Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09KNRK9KF
Best Sellers Rank 45,387 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
115 in Australian, New Zealand & Oceanic History
626 in History of Australia & New Zealand
1,108 in Comedy & Humour
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Dominic N
5.0 out of 5 stars a good readReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 16 November 2022
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This is version of our hIstory devoid of jingoism but strong on humour. Very informative. Destroys quite some shibboleths. Read the set.
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GB
4.0 out of 5 stars Good information and good funReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 27 November 2021
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Most enjoyable book so far. I am disturbed by some of the comments, I hope they are factual, they do sound like they are. I'm also intrigued and just have to keep going to find out more. Definitely a very different story than other history books.
Got to taste it to see what I mean.
Enjoy.
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Christine Shaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant.Reviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 6 November 2021
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First a student of Australian history then a teacher of it I view these novels should be compulsory reading for every Australian.
The sanitised version is not enough. To know us and our 'Aussieness' we need to know how we were formed and informed. We need to read and live and understand our history and all its formative pressures on us today. I have lived in every state and 1 territory and driven, walked and listened to us. All of us.
I have Indigenous, Chinese, English, American, Scottish, Irish, DNA in our family and probably a lot more I don't know of yet.
These 3 novels allow us to see us. I'm a proud Australian, a veteran, a teacher and someone who passionately wants us to live to embrace our heritage and go onto make it better.
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don22754
5.0 out of 5 stars great seriesReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 13 May 2022
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great
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Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing history of AustraliaReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 10 November 2021
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The Girt series of books ( 3 now) are hilarious. This one focuses on the mid 1800s to Federation era. Very funny, but amazing because it's true. Who said history was boring?
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Derek Corless
5.0 out of 5 stars the information is accurate but written with tongue in cheek in places. A great giggle!Reviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 29 November 2021
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Loved all the fun facts I found the footnotes on my Kindle very small and difficult to read
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Shoshie Lucis
5.0 out of 5 stars The first 2 books were a great read and so is this oneReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 15 November 2021
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Great book but I recommend you start with the first 2 before reading this one.
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nadia
5.0 out of 5 stars okReviewed in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ on 25 November 2021
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no idea -it is a christmas gift - too early to tell
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Matthew Howard
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hilarity and Horror of History Continue!Reviewed in the United States ๐บ๐ธ on 12 November 2021
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Hunt has a knack for making me laugh out loud even when he is relating terrible events involving brutal racism, oppression of women, political corruption, and severed heads being shipped overseas. His clever turns of phrase, colorful Aussie slang, and irreverent footnotes make history entertaining and engaging.
As a huge fan of the first two volumes in the "Girt" series, I was thrilled to continue the adventures of Australia in this third book that takes us into the twentieth century, and absolutely mortified at Hunt's persistent rebellion against the Oxford comma. The writing is top-notch, the subjects are fascinating, and the combination of seriousness and satire make for an incomparable educational experience.
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