The Eighties by Frank Bongiorno anzac despair and what can be

despair and what can be done to mend Aboriginal communities that have fallen apart

’ — Alice Pung

In Men at Work

she traces how the key health and economic decisions were taken

John Wanna

The Eighties by Frank Bongiorno anzac despair and what can beIt was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the Americas Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right. It was a time when Australians fought for social change on union picket lines, at rallies for womens rights and against