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Swimming with Sharks: Tales from the South Pacific Frontline
'On the last day, we flew out to Manono aboard an RNZAF Iroquois. The doors were open and the beauty of Samoa was literally beneath our feet. I have always...
Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the
'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the...
Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in
At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing...
Curtin's Empire
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
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...
Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land
A beautifully described journey across Australia's desert, and into its shocking past. In critically acclaimed Desert Divers and Exterminate all the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts, and unearthed...
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Hardback Volume Set
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
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,...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the...
Protecting Indigenous Art: From T-shirts to the Flag
A personal account of how copyright protects Indigenous art There is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Indigenous people see that the rest of...
Alice (TM): The Biggest Untold Story in the History of Money
From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money...
Survival in Singapore: The triumph and tragedy of Australia's greatest
SURVIVAL IN SINGAPORE is a gripping account of an untold story of Japanese-occupied Singapore, and a testament of courage, sacrifice and the resilience of the human spirit. 'Wonderfully evocative writing,...
Worlds Apart
The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by atypical events such as political violence that contradict the...
Angelina: From Stromboli to D'Urville Island - A Family's Story
In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli off Sicily to travel to an even remoter island on the other side...
Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of
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...
Royal Visits to Australia
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Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty...
The Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty
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...
Born in 1946?: What Else Happened?
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...
In the shadow of Gallipoli: The hidden story of Australia in WWI
Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the...
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...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne
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'...
Born to fly: Freestyle ski roots
In celebration of the original 'Godfather of Freestyle'. Born to Fly is the story of Australian Eric Hymans, one of the wild men of hot-dog skiing in the 1970s and...
Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present...
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Hardback Volume Set
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the...
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
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...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
A History of New South Wales
The history of New South Wales and Australia once seemed interchangeable. But since at least the 1850s New South Wales has had a unique history, partly growing out of its...
Number 1 Flint Hill
1 Flint Hill by Melissa Brown A historical narrative based in Colonial Victoria at the turn of the century. 1898, Ararat, Victoria Doctor Charles Lawler believes he has witnessed the...
Charlie's Book
A work of local history chronicling the life and death of the rural township of Lyonville, a sawmilling settlement in the Wombat Forest region of Victoria's Central Highlands, Charlie's Book...
