Australasian History

Identity, Education and Belonging examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop. Arab and Muslim Australian youth have long faced considerable...

1853, Victoria, Australia. Five bushrangers led by the murderous outlaw Warrigal Anderson raid a small homestead. When they ride away, nineteen-year-old Toby O'Rourke's life is changed forever. His parents lie...

The book that inspired Channel Nine's Underbelly: Chopper From streetfighter to standover man, gunman to underworld executioner, Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was earmarked for death a dozen times but somehow...

What happens when the past won't let go? Buried secrets rise to the surface in this rural-set romance and mystery from bestselling author Mandy Magro. Even after leaving small-town Wildstone...

Neverland is a social history of a surf town in Australia - which happens to be Byron Bay. It is the story of the surfers, American and Australian, who found...

From the bestselling author of THE LOUDNESS OF UNSAID THINGS comes a compelling new novel that illuminates the joys and sorrows of an ordinary life and delivers profound insights into...

Penny Olsen will discuss her new book about early European impressions of Australia's curious mammals on Thursday 4 November, 4.00 pm, National Library of Australia - Conference Room. This free...

"This is writing about us, by us", as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier. First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendship In the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family...

"Australia's Foreign Relations" is a rigorous, lively and comprehensive "insider" account of how Australian foreign policy works. It runs the full gamut of issues fundamental to Australia's place in, and...

An evocative photographic portrait of country footy and the role it plays in connecting communities across Australia - the people, the players, the places, the competition, the colour, the camaraderie,...

What happens when the past won't let go? Buried secrets rise to the surface in this rural-set romance and mystery from bestselling author Mandy Magro. Even after leaving small-town Wildstone...

From Gallipoli to Kokoda and beyond - the story of our greatest general and the power, politics and tragedy of command General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of Australian...

Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to...

She yearns for adventure, but the road to freedom is paved with peril. The thrilling new historical adventure from a bestselling Australian author. Albany, Western Australia, 1881 Stifled by English...

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her...

THE NEW FAMILY RECIPES AND STORIES COOKBOOK FROM JANE AND JIMMY BARNES Venture into the garden with Jane and Jimmy Barnes in Seasons Where the River Bends , the eagerly...

Welcome to Bundilla. A close-knit community where romance can blossom. The first two novels in the bestselling series from award-winning Australian author Alissa Callen. Snowy Mountains Daughter Small-town Bundilla is...

Contemporary furniture is the lingua franca of the industrialized nations. Through television, film and design periodicals, furniture's visual jargon is transmitted around the world. Contemporary furniture is criticised and discussed...

Typically, there s only one way to win by being the best. But there are countless ways of having victory snatched from your grasp. Remember Pat Rafter s 2001 Wimbledon...

The book titled Our Heart is the Land: Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake by the author Bruce Shaw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Australian banks are riding high. Shareholder profits are at record levels. Senior executives are on champagne salaries and business has never been so good. But in the suburbs and in...

On modest Australian incomes, in a high interest environment, Jim and Anita Bell were able to pay off their first mortgage in three years. Since that time Anita has also...

Described as the swiss-army knife of contemporary Australian culture, containing just about everything (over 1,000 tips) a person aged 14-30 should be taught (but usually isn?t) in order to live...

For a century and a half town criers walked the streets of Australian capital cities, regional centres, and country towns, ringing their bells and conveying their messages. Australia's first town...

People are fascinated by other people's lives: what they do, how they live, who they love, their successes and their blind spots. Biography has long been a popular literary genre...

A fabulous pictorial Australiana gift-book on Australia's animals and with unique motivational voice and life-principle that can help release and empower a depth in self-discovery. Showcasing 24 Iconic Australian animals,...

Specifically designed for students of Australian history, this is a study of the morals, beliefs and lifestyles of the Australian upper classes in the province of Victoria in the latter...

Keating and his Party Room is the first comprehensive account of a full term of the proceedings of the Labor Party Room - the Caucus - where the Party's actions...

When Dorothea Mackellar wrote My Country in 1908, her words struck a chord of recognition among all who lived in the Sunburnt Country and had seen its jewel seas, ragged...

The Soul of the Outback explores Australia's outback, from Alice Springs to Darwin. Through photography, painting and drawings, local artist Mai Maddisson takes us on a journey that captures a...

'Why is it so hard for Church people to find the appropriate words that tap into Australians' search for something more? Why, too, would their words not be listened to,...

'Aborigines did not cause the extinction of the megafauna . . . and it is unlikely that they have caused the extinction of any element of the fauna and flora.'...

Where are the Careys and Kellys of yesteryear? What are the `Cowboy', `the Incredible Hulk' and `the Galloping Gasometer' doing these days? Jim Main takes us inside the locker rooms...

The book titled Front Line Despatches: Australians at War 1845-1972 by the author Nic Van Oudtshoorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In photography, you don't get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices. To capture the light. Tom's longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which...

The great majority of holidaymakers in Australia get home in one piece, but a handful do suffer fatal or serious injuries. See Australia and Die is about dangerous Australia. It's...

Australia's number one Crossword Dictionary that solves the most complex questions. Bold headwords for easy reference. Multicultural clues & answers.

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p>The 1960s was a decade like no other hellip; the culture, the music and the fashions. It also saw a surfing boom that bred innovation in surfboard design, changes in...

'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.' Australia is dotted...

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Exhibition: 'State of the Waratah' which was an official Olympic Arts Festival event.

Australian English is unique; having absorbed elements of British and American English it has developed its own distinctive style. As a living language, Australian English is constantly changing, so that...

Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history,...