Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
MUP: A Centenary History by Stuart Kells
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Into Store Date 5/02/2023 Australia’s oldest university press is also one of our best known and most trusted publishers. Founded in 1921 as a bookshop for students at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press was soon publishing important works that contained the best of national scholars ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Lucy Sussex
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Before there was Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab-the biggest- and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia's first literary blockbuster. Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved from Dunedin to Melbourne in 1885. He ...Show more
Railway to Cudgewa by NICK ANCHEN
$69.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The spectacular mountain railway from Wodonga to Cudgewa in north eastern Victoria was one of Australia's truly fascinating branch lines, and the most challenging to operate on the Victorian Railways. It was a railway of scenic splendour, famous for its towering wooden bridges, notoriously steep grades, ...Show more
Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros by Lisa Millar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on Netflix and ABC iView When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training pr ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Wayne Bergmann,Madelaine Dickie,
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more