Last year Edgar Crook, of Canberra, Australia, published his book 'Vegetarianism in Australia: 1788-1948 - a cultural history'. This is an excellent, fascinating, and very readable account of the long struggle for acceptance of vegetarianism in a country that exports huge quantities of meat.

Edgar has now revised and extended the book, bringing it right up date - and has made the entire book freely available on IVU. It is divided into 19 PDF files for ease of downloading and reading. See www.ivu.org/history/australia

We're looking forward to meeting large numbers of Australians when the IVU World Vegetarian Congress is held in Jakarta and Bali in 2010, and we will now expect them all to be well informed about their own history!

Many thanks to Edgar for this highly impressive book, and for making it free for all on IVU.