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Cathy Freeman stands at the podium, ready to light the Olympic cauldron, climaxing the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Games. Throughout the ceremony, Aboriginal talent is on display and in...

'No other city was born under so cruel a star, but no other city now gives the impressionable visitor such a feeling of still boundless optimism. This is the great...

The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of...

**Shortlisted, 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize** On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held...

The book titled Western Images by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Islands of Angry Ghosts by the author Hugh Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Australian Army is the first history of the army which seeks to explain its development. It is a portrait of the Australian Army with its shortcomings and failures, its...

The book titled Australia since the Coming of Man by the author Russel Ward. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume Two covers Other Significant Artists from 1909-2016, presenting profiles on 150 artists. It features artists such as Arthur d'Auvergne Boxall, Sir Will Ashton, Sir Ivor Hele, Dorrit Black, Margaret...

It's 1919. Corporal Joe Barlow returns from the Great War to his home in Oak Tree Place hoping only for peace and order, but this is denied him as he...

Author: Dianne Dempsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 This gripping narrative of the Chinese diaspora in Bendigo, Australia, is told through the eyes of an extraordinary community builder, Russell...

The book titled The Story of Australia: An Illustrated History For Young Australians by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in...

One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman...

ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...

Bad boys, bright lights and sorry ends: the story of our most infamous gangster. Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father...

Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...

An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

Presenting information and findings about the history of the peopling of Australia, this revised edition looks at the way people first came to Australia, where they lived, and how they...

The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal...

Exploring a wide range of design experience, this publication is an investigation of design issues spanning almost 100 years of Australian history. The author draws on poets, painters, educators, critics,...

The book titled Roads for the People: A History of Victorian Roads by the author Bill Anderson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Robert Dowling (1827-1886) holds a special place in the history of Australian art as its first locally trained artist. He is known for his portraits of colonial European society, Oriental...

There are certain memories that will be familiar to anyone who grew up in Australia between the 1960s and the 1990s. Things like traipsing to the caravan-park toilet with a...

150 years ago New Zealand was established as a remote British colony in the South Pacific Ocean. An uneasy accord was reached between land-hungry settlers and the original inhabitants, the...

'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...

With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010s From the...

Heritage is now big business in Australia but many people interested in preserving historic buildings or in understanding the history of their own towns and suburbs are baffled by the...

How an ancient land became a great democracy. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative ' Geoffrey Blainey, historian Australia is one of...

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...

Talented, well trained and confident in his own abilities and worth, Australia's first government architect was also hot-headed and tactless. Sentenced to death for forgery, then granted a last-minute reprieve,...

Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.

The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a...

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...

For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American...

In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became...

The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...

They are the greatest Australian and New Zealand racehorses of all time, the giants who transcend the sport, who broke records and captured hearts. But which are the best of...

Sir Henry Parkes- Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, Humanist Sir Henry Parkes- Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, HumanistMay...

With the granting of the vote to women in 1902 Australian suffragist Rose Scott told male politicians that their names would be remembered when the names of the suffragettes had...