A Nation of Swaggies & Diggers (Fair Dinkum Histories #5)
By (Author) Jackie French
Illustrated by Peter Sheehan
Scholastic Australia
Scholastic Australia
1st June 2018
Australia
Children
Fiction
Paperback
176
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dumping ground for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then a far-off war would create a different kind of digger. What they brought back home would make greater changes to Australia than gold ever did. Meet the scabs and the swaggies, battling politicians, doddering generals, sheep stealers and heroic diggers who finally turned us into a nation!