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There can be few other nations which are less certain than Australia as to what they are and where they are. Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. www.textclassics.com.au

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Since its first publication by Melbourne University Press "Australia's home" has been in constant demand. The author summarizes his story, from 1788 to 1960, as "a material triumph and an aesthetic calamity".