Backbencher

In the book the Australian Language there were alot of interesting facts and ideas the they had covered. In the beginning of the book they talked of the flora and fauna that was named strange names that were unique to this land. Such things as kangaroo, kookaburra, billabong, kurrajong, bunyip, wattle, bush Darling Pea, honey ant were some of the things that were named. The natives also had some things that stuck with the langauge also. They talked of the dictonary and how things that were not in it were not the right way to speek according to some people. In this book they also covered the beginning of Australian settlement and the convicts that were sent there. They talked of the landscape and all the the livestock and such things. They talked of the war and how it affected Australia. Back the the language aspect of things there was a few pages of this book that had a thing where it told what thier words meant, which I thought was pretty neat. They talked of some of the native languages also. This was a really interesting book. It pretty much takes everything we learned over the course of this class and sums it up. Its like Australian history in a nutshell. I thought it was a good book and would recomend it to any one who wants to know about how Australia is the way it is.