Macca’s Australia: Australia all over. Ian McNamara. 1997.

Macca’s Australia is the book over two million listeners to Macca’s ABC radio program ‘Australia all over’ have been waiting for. As in the program, readers will find in this book the ever-popular themes: stories, poems, interviews, phone calls, humour, weather, animals, letters and pictures from kids - and unique one-liners. For example, Macca asked a bloke if he knew another bloke from the same district - answer, ‘I’ve never met him, I wouldn’t know him if he stood up in my porridge!’

There’s also a serious view of the bush in severe drought, and of country towns battling against the closure of essential services. However, humour almost always comes to the fore: Jim from Mount Gambier, South Australia, on the weather, ‘Mate, it rains for three hundred and sixty days and drips off the trees for the other five.’