![]() ![]() ![]() These writings helped us to form a view of what is unique about being Australian. The focus of many of our early writers and novelists was on this unique environment and how people coped with life. Back then, because of the unique and challenging nature of the Australian climate, bush and wildlife, the people who lived and worked there developed particular characteristics and approaches to life. Today we are largely city and town dwellers who work mostly in service based industries. Farming was the major employer, much more so than today. Back then, we were more a people of the rural landscape than we were of the cities and towns. While I am not an avid reader of fiction, my interest in Australian fiction has always been for those classic writers who helped describe the unique rural life in the Australia of the 1800s and earlier parts of the 1900s. (This podcast is 13 minutes and 46 seconds long)Īustralia, like other countries, has produced many fine writers of fiction. Podcast Number 122 – Classic Australian Novels – My Brilliant Career Learn English while learning about daily life in Australia, with Rob McCormack ![]()
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