Great Australian Urban Legends

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Satanists in Perth. Panthers in Sydney. Inner Melbourne's secret morgue.

Australia is stuffed full of stories that need to be taken with a big spoon of salt. Stories that we all know are silly, but that we also just can't help sharing. In Great Australian Urban Legends, Eamon Evans presents you with myths, misconceptions and barefaced lies about real people and real places down under. These pages libel Captain Cook and slander Phar Lap. They will annoy the Wiggles and David Boon. They will reveal whether Harold Holt really died, if the bunyip ever lived, and which famous Australian now gets by as a ghost.

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Eamon Evans is a Melbourne-based writer who has spent all his working life writing for the online and print media. His work has appeared in The Sunday Herald Sun, The Adelaide Advertiser, Australian Book Review, The Sunday Times and The Courier-Mail. Online, he has been an in-house writer for Big Pond Sport, SBS, ArtsHub, the Weekly Book Newsletter and the electronic bulletin of the International Federation of Arts Council and Culture Agencies. Eamon is the author of fifteen vaguely funny books and an unfinished Masters thesis.