Cover art for The Shortest History of Australia
Published
Black Inc, November 2025
ISBN
9781760643591
Format
Hardcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
0.1cm × 0.1cm × 0.1cm

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The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this.

In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence.

McKenna's wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly.

'Remarkable ... a deeply humane account of who we are and how we came to be' -Larissa Behrendt

'A deeply imaginative, beautifully written and individual book' --Robert Manne

'Original, eloquent and moving - a revelatory journey into the past we thought we knew' --Tom Griffiths

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