chapter 1 geography and ecological environment
1.1 overview: an old continent and a unique
environment
1.2 reading passage: australian lungfish, neocreatodus
forsteri, threatened by a new dam
chapter 2 the aborigines and australian history
2.1 overview
2.2 reading passage: war and national survival
chapter 3 politics and economics
3.1 overview
3.2 reading passage: getting a grip on bonecrushers
chapter 4 education and globalization of australia''s higher
education
4.1 overview: a well-developed system with high
quality
4.2 reading passage: globalization and australia''s higher
education
chapter 5 mass media and film industry
5.1 overview: vigorous development and free expression
5.2 Rreading passage: creative nation: approaching
australian cinema and cultural studies
chapter 6 multiculturalism
6.1 overview: a cohesive and diverse country
6.2 reading passage 1: is australia a multicultural nation?
reading passage 2: cultural attitudes and aussie communicative
style
chapter 7 literature
7.1 overview: from the bush myth to international
recognition
7.2 reading passage: the drover''s wife
chapter 8 recreations and sports
8.1 overview: the recreational society and a sporting
life
8.2 reading passage: a brief historical overview of sport
and recreation
keys to exercises
references