John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
Capital Melbourne at the Centre of the World 1901 -27 by Kristin Otto
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1901 the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next twenty-six years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each other - not just the people who mattered, but those who didn't yet - where small changes loomed large and the import o ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
Strayan Dictionary: Avo, Arvo, ScoMo, Mabo and All the Essential Strayan Words by Dominic Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Following up on the success of Strayapedia, Dom has put together a dictionary of all things 'Strayan. This is a funny, topical stocking stuffer for the Christmas market, and the perfect gift for anyone who loves The Chaser or The Betoota Advocate. See the attached sample definitions for a sense of the w ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
Turning Points: 25 Remarkable Australians and the Moments that Changed Their Lives by CLARK, MARY RYLLIS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
‘The thought began to form in my mind that many people would have a powerful story to tell about a turning point that led to them finding their purpose — their passion.’When historian Mary Ryllis Clark came across her copy of Austrian philosopher and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s A Man’s Search for ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
World Heritage Sites of Australia by Peter Valentine
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Visitors to Australia marvel when they see the places recognised by the United Nations as World Heritage. From the ancient, pristine temperate rainforests in the south to the massive escarpments and tropical wetlands in the north, they are dazzling in their ecological complexity and the record they offe ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more