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Sacred Places (Third Edition)

This revised and updated edition of Inglis' award-winning title features a new epilogue, new pictures and a new introduction by Jay Winter. War memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian landscape. They embody what Australians have wanted to say about the service and death of their compatriots in overseas wars and express pride, grief, perceptions of God, empire and nation. The story of their making is composed of both harmony and conflict. Ken Inglis argues that they are the shrines of a civil religion.

This Is Abc Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932 1983

As the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of Friday 1 July 1932, the peals were picked up by a microphone and carried to every State of the Federation. 'This is the Australian Broadcasting Commission,' said the announcer, Conrad Charlton.

So begins K.S. Inglis's compelling history of the first fifty years of the ABC. In a sparkling tour de force Inglis shows us the ABC's triumphs and failures, its great medley of personalities and the effects it has had on Australian public life. Based on the Commission's own archives, on newspapers and journals, on a rich assortment of interviews and on the author's own listening and viewing, this is a social history of the highest order.

Whose Abc The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1983 2006

Whose ABC? is Ken Inglis's long-awaited political and cultural history of one of Australia's best-loved institutions. Combining in-depth research, interviews with the key players and a gift for story-telling, it is social history of the highest order.

Since 1983, the ABC has seen controversial managing directors – David Hill, Jonathan Shier – come and go. There have been fights over funding – "eight cents a day" – and charges of bias. There have been both programming triumphs – from Bananas in Pyjamas to Kath & Kim – and accusations of cowardice and dumbing down.

Whose ABC? deals with all these events and more. It seeks out the truth of events and breaks new ground. The result is an unfailingly readable narrative that will be seen as a classic of Australian historical writing.