In Your Hands, Australians
In Your Hands, Australians is a 1918 book by the Australian writer and historian Charles Bean. In the book Bean tries to encourage Australians to create a better world at after the end of the First World War. Bean wrote the book in two weeks in the south of France while on leave from the army.

The book was described by the "Australian Dictionary of Biography" as "an Australian version of the world-wide hope that the survivors of war would perform peaceful deeds which justified the years of death". Bean described it as a "little book about the problems of Australia's future".

Bean was a proponent of the White Australia ideology and envisaged a future Australia as being an agrarian society with millions of farmers. Aboriginal Australians are excluded from his vision and are not mentioned or referred to by Bean in his text. Bean urges the readers of "In Your Hands, Australians" to create "An Anglo-Saxon nation of free, happy, brilliant people".

In "Some Lesson of the War", a series of three essays for "The Sydney Morning Herald" by H.N.P. Sloman to mark the end of the First World War, Sloman wrote that "In Your Hands, Australians" should be read by "every member of the Commonwealth".

Bean's 1943 book "War Aims", written during the Second World War concerned a similar theme. Bean wrote in "War Aims" that Australians had failed to create the world he envisaged after the First World War but this was due to events outside of Australia's control.
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