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The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia
Winner of the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award It 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. Read more