Book launch: The Shortest History of Australia

Name: Book launch: The Shortest History of Australia
Start: 2025-11-05T08:00:00+11:00
Location: Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600

Schedule

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600 | Canberra, CT

Mark McKenna sits down with Frank Bongiorno to discuss Mark's new book and how it came together.
In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence.
McKenna’s wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly.
Join us at the National Library or tune in on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/if32h77-KD4?feature=share