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The Chaser’s Australia is a comprehensive guide to the culture, history, politics, religion, fashion, media and the few remaining footy heroes not currently facing criminal charges, that have made Australia one of the top 196 countries in the world today. Featuring fewer facts than an Andrew Bolt column, and more offensive claims than a George Pell’s testimony, this definitive volume is the perfect companion volume to a proper book about Australia. This edition includes:
- A comprehensive list of Australia's most treasured Big Things, from the Big Banana to the Giant Budget Deficit
- Profiles on Australia's most successful citizens including Russell Crowe, Sam Neill, Keith Urban and Prime Minister Helen Clarke
- A touching and poetic profile of Clive James written by Barry Humphries under the guise of his popular fictional character Germain Greer
- A history of the Labor party penned by Julia Gillard with a forward and afterward by Kevin Rudd
- A three sentence summary of the first forty-thousand years of Australian history, including that part where Captain Cook showed up. “If you only read one book about Australia this year, you should probably expand your reading habits.”
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You may know The Chaser from such television hits as The Chaser’s War on Everything and The Chaser’s Media Circus. But did you know that The Chaser actually started as Australia’s first miner of brown coal in the 1890s? To protect its vast profits, The Chaser Oil Corporation, set up a small, cheeky publication called The Chaser to deflect attention away from its illegal mining operations and recreational koala-shooting activities. Over a century later in 2005, the newspaper, koala-shooting and mining operations ceased, so that the team could concentrate on managing its asbestos mines in China. Unfortunately, the profitability of using asbestos as a way to pad out baby-milk formula proved somewhat over-optimistic, and the team was forced into the indignity of hosting popular television shows just to make ends meet. Some even ended up on Channel 7. And so, nearly 600 years after Gutenburg invented the printing press, and nearly five years after the team last updated its website, The Chaser has decided to return to its roots, in the form of The Chaser Quarterly.
