Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's greatest engineering achievements and a symbol of the nation's ambition. This topic explores its design, construction, the people who built it, and its place in Australian history.

The Bridge jumpers

David Gormley-…
The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at the height of the Great Depression in March 1932 was a festive occasion for the young nation. Celebrations were short-lived when the bridge became a popular spot for suicide jumpers. It took nearly two years and almost 50 deaths for the reluctant Government to erect a safety barrier on the bridge's footways.

An Attractive Naivety: Australia as a new nation in a complex world (Revised Edition)

An Attractive Naivety is a historical novel of war, identity, and endurance, set against Australia’s first half-century as a nation.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Australia is newly federated – ambitious, proud, and unsure of itself. The novel traces that coming of age through the lives of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. From plague-stricken Sydney to the battlefield of Palestine, from the Cowra Breakout to the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it follows the pressures that shaped both private lives and public myths.

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