The Farming of Australia: A Saga of Backbreaking Toil and Tenacity (Making of a Nation)

Triumph over a dry, hot and often infertile land. Australia’s farmers have overcome difficult terrain and the tyranny of distance to make the country an important food bowl. This is the story of 200-plus years of ups and downs - savage droughts and daunting challenges but also the triumphs of irrigation and imagination and inventiveness.

Robin Bromby is a journalist, author and publisher. He operated a small publishing company in the 1980s, set up after a book idea was rejected by several publishers (that one went on to go through five editions). But, subsequently, he also had titles issued by mainstream publishers, including Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and Lothian Books.
Robin began as a cadet journalist in 1962 with The Dominion, the morning paper in Wellington, New Zealand. He also worked for the NZ Broadcasting Corporation, TV1, the South China Morning Post, The Herald (Melbourne), the Sunday Times (Wellington), The National Times (Sydney) and, since 1988, he has been first a staff reporter and now columnist for The Australian.
Books now available via Amazon from Highgate Publishing are "German Raiders of the South Seas", "Australian Railways: Their Life and Times", and "The Farming of Australia".