Disasters That Changed Australia

Mismanagement and poor planning made Cyclone Tracy and the Black Friday bushfires far more destructive and deadly than they should have been.

Vital natural resources were carelessly destroyed, from thousands of years ago to today.

The Snowy Mountains Scheme and the Australian Institute of Sport bought national pride at ruinous expense.

British General Douglas Haig, through sheer arrogance and determination, sent thousands of Australian soldiers to their deaths for no strategic gain.

A feral legion of rabbits let loose on the environment turned furry friends into an uncontrollable plague.

In Disaster that Changed Australia, Richard Evans nominates the worst disasters in an engrossing, insightful account of what happened and why.

Writer and Historian Richard Evans is the author of The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True of Murder, Obsession and Lies, and co-author of Constructing Australia. He has a PhD in History from Monash University, and works as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology.