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