Author Description

In all, one hundred such hallowed objects have been gathered together to create this unique collection - cultural icons ranging from our oldest boomerang, preserved in a peat swamp for 10,000 years, to Paula Stafford's bikini which helped shape the moral climate of a nation trying to be modern. Here you can find the pen that signed the Proclamation which made Australia a nation, Captain Bligh's amazing diary, Pavlova's pointe shoe, the first Victa lawn-mower and the Hill's Hoist, the original words of 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'My Country', the first Holden and the oldest European relic of our history, Dirk Hartog's plate. These relics are lovingly preserved in dozens of different institutions in Australia and around the world but here they can be seen all at once for the first time."--Book jacket.