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product_id: 99741701
title: "The Land Before Avocado Kindle Edition"
brand: "richard glover"
price: "$36"
currency: NZD
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reviews_count: 9
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# The Land Before Avocado Kindle Edition

**Brand:** richard glover
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- **What is this?** The Land Before Avocado Kindle Edition by richard glover
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## Customer Reviews

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    An Aussie record of the 1960s to 70s
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2019*

I was born in the land of Oz one decade before Glover, and so was a child in the 50s, a teen in the 60s and young adult in the 70s. I can certainly confirm to his doubting-Thomas son that the picture painted of Australia in this period is true. There were some cultural idiosyncrasies in this book that evaded my life, and my partner hadn't heard of such things either, but this was only a very small part of these entertaining, historical musings on a country that had not yet come of age. I can truly identify with the condoned corporal punishment of school children during this unenlightened period. My aunt tells the tale of simultaneously being issued with a primary school class and a leather strap in her first teaching job (happy to say, she never used this weapon on her unsuspecting little wards). I clearly remember the fear instilled in me when one pedant lined up and strapped everyone who didn't know the answer to a maths problem. Needless to say, hearing this weapon cruelly connecting with children's hands wasn't condusive to giving a correct answer when my turn came around. Richard Glover's book brings back memories of antiquated laws, doubtful heroes and biased attitudes. One can see why Australia was not recognised in the world arena, and yet reading this brings back nostalgia for a time lost. It was not all as bad as it sounds. Read this and be either absorbed or amazed (depending on what era you've come from).

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    Nostalgic
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019*

This is a comic review of Australia in the 1970s. Glover begins in 1970 in Canberra, Australia, when Gus decided to put chairs outside his café so that his customers could enjoy pavement dining. It was illegal at the time, and the police were called. The public debate became known as The Battle of the Chairs, and Gus won. Gus’s café still exists today.This book has a million stories of 50 years ago in Australia, when life was different – Glover takes a look back at what used to be. Some things were serious then: women couldn’t get a bank loan, school canings were regular punishments, no-fault divorce did not exist, women had to resign from their job after marriage, human rights didn’t respect the rights of all humans, sewerage stank, and the life expectancy was 12 years lower.But there was a lot of joy too: kids could play all day – just ‘be back by dusk’ – children played ten different sporting games all in one day, the ice-cream van arrived regularly, films were shown outdoors on large screens, and packing twenty people into a Volkswagon car was not illegal.Interspersed throughout the book are interesting black-and-white photographs. The book is nostalgic and often hilarious, and sometimes embarrassing, but mostly mildy amusing – was it really like that? Well, yes, it was. Thank goodness for cultural revolutions and progress. This is a good book for a laugh, and to see how much has progressed, but also to see how much further we need to progress.

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    No need to visit, just read this
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019*

If you want to know about Australia's recent past, you do not need to travel there; it's all here, written with an objectivity and wit that will both shock and amaze, especially those of younger years who will be astonished by the descriptions of the times. They may even battle to think them possible. This is a tale of Australian society but it goes to show how repressed and suppressed peoples have been due to the authority of governments everywhere due to stigma, prejudice and particularly the premise that the heterosexual white man is in charge. Not everywhere by any means but mercifully, this control is now being questioned as societies around the world where people can and do object, where they can achieve a greater equality for those previously yet all too recently, who were marginalised.  Long may the movement continue. This is a testament to those movements and a window into Australia's diverse peoples.

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