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Tiger Territory: The Untold Story of the Royal Australian Navy from

Tiger Territory: The Untold Story of the Royal Australian Navy from

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Between 1948 and 1971 ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore. In this...
Australian Migrant Ships

Australian Migrant Ships

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In 1945 Arthur Calwell announced a new immigration policy for Australia requiring an influx of 70,000 migrants a year, and it was hoped that all of them would come from...
Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War,

Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War,

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Fighting to the Finish tells the story of the Australian Army in Vietnam during the peak years of the Australian military commitment to Vietnam War. As the ninth and final...
Mission Accomplished, East Timor: The Australian Defence Force

Mission Accomplished, East Timor: The Australian Defence Force

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The Australians were the first INTERFET troops to arrive in the violence that was East Timor in September 1999. Greatly outnumbered by the Indonesians and the militia, they found a...
Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-biography

Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-biography

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The memoir of Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski DRIVEN is a memoir by distinguished Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and...
The Ten Pound Fare

The Ten Pound Fare

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This is a study of the assisted passage scheme offered for journeys to Australia in 1947. The assisted passage scheme, also known as the "ten pound fare", was introduced in...
Mutiny On The Western Front: Shamed Anzacs

Mutiny On The Western Front: Shamed Anzacs

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On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being...
This Devastating Fever

This Devastating Fever

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 'This is a great novel of enduring significance and enormous beauty.' - Sydney Morning Herald Sometimes you need to delve into...
Gold: Greed, Innovation, Daring and Wealth

Gold: Greed, Innovation, Daring and Wealth

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The lustre which drew mankind to gold in ancient times has made it the most prized commodity throughout time. Wars have been fought over it, and civilisations have been subjugated...
Phar Lap

Phar Lap

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For decades schoolchildren have made the pilgrimage to the Museum of Victoria to see the final resting place of our greatest racing horse ever. No wonder Phar Lap holds a...
Managing Gender

Managing Gender

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Deacon here examines the complex relationships between state, gender and class during a central period of Australia's history. The book focuses on the emergence of a new middle class centrally...
Australia and China at 40

Australia and China at 40

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For the first time, Australia's leading trading partner is not a democracy. Rather, it is a powerful authoritarian state with a fast-growing economy, a rapidly modernising military and bold global...
Taking Risks: A History of the Qbe Insurance Group

Taking Risks: A History of the Qbe Insurance Group

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The QBE Insurance Group is Australia's largest general insurer and its growth, nationally and internationally since its small beginnings in 1886, is the story of an institution that has played...
An All Consuming Passion: The Life of Georgiana Molloy

An All Consuming Passion: The Life of Georgiana Molloy

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This epic story of settlement and colonization is, specifically, the story of the settlement of the southeast of Western Australia. At its heart is the story of Georgiana Molloy and...
Nell, the Duchess of Manchester

Nell, the Duchess of Manchester

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When an unassuming young Melbourne woman bumped into a handsome naval lieutenant in a Colombo hotel swimming pool in 1926 she would never have dreamed of one day being the...
The Radio Hour: the charming and funny new novel of 2024 from

The Radio Hour: the charming and funny new novel of 2024 from

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From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

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**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
Curtin's Empire

Curtin's Empire

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John Curtin remains a venerated leader. His role as Labor's wartime supremo is etched deep into the national psyche: the man who put Australia first, locked horns with Churchill, forged...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance

A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance

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On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of

Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of

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Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...
No One's Child

No One's Child

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In her compelling memoir, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil shared the incredible story of her life in the turbulent world of Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s....
Grab a Coldie!: 80s Beer Culture in Australia

Grab a Coldie!: 80s Beer Culture in Australia

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What a glorious decade for beer - the 1980s. This book will release a wealth of memories for anyone who was there or would like to have been. This is...
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story

Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story

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Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of

Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of

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Souter describes in fascinating detail the years of rapid and dramatic change from federation in 1901 to the end of the Great War. A new cheaper edition published to coincide...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

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**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty

The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty

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This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...
All That's Left Unsaid

All That's Left Unsaid

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'A complex, harrowing look into the impacts on trauma on a community, written with the urgent pace of a thriller and peppered with moments of levity' Vogue Australia 'An unforgettable...
The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

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George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...
Born in 1946?: What Else Happened?

Born in 1946?: What Else Happened?

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This is the seventh of the 1940s and the eighteenth to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

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Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
On the Road

On the Road

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On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia

In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia

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The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...
Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

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In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...
Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

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Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

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New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...
The Forgotten War: Australia and the Boer War

The Forgotten War: Australia and the Boer War

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The first concise and comprehensive history of Australia's part in the Boer War. Sixteen thousand men went from Australia to the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902-...