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This new, thoroughly revised edition of Social Sketches of Australia is about the lives and times of ordinary people from 1888 to the present.

About the Author

Humphrey McQueen scratches for a living in Canberra. Since the appearance of the first edition of a New Britannia in 1970, he has published another thirteen books, and a couple of million words in articles, columns and reviews. He does his bit to keep alive the principles of social equality through the Socialist Alliance and its journal Seeing Red.