Australasian History

An illustrated history of republicanism in nineteenth-century Australia.

`There is one journey you truly take by yourself. There is no one else beyond the skin of your hands, the toes of your feet, the sweat on your brow.'...

Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright recounts how a remote town in Australia dealt with the invasion of grog on their traditional lands. Wright describes the shocking effects of alcohol...

More than fifty thousand copies sold in Australia, now fully updated and revised. Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens....

I came to the plateau in the winter of '98. A place a thousand metres in the air . . . a world of sandstone and eucalypt and undegenerate weather,...

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...

The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image. But the facts tell another story. The Hell's...

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...

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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...

'Unputdownable . . . spookily familiar, funny, and darkly captivating. I loved it' Sally Hepworth Question: How long does it take to tear someone's life apart? Answer: Sometimes just one...

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...

Following the success of Murders that Shocked Australia comes this second edition. Revised and updated, it takes the reader through Australia's most challenging murders and personalities, from Ned Kelly to...

Fast Money 4 delivers a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute analysis of the dynamic Australian financial and investment landscape. In structuring the book, Edna Carew has taken into account recent developments such as...

'Not for profit' enterprises provide services enjoyed or depended upon by many Australians. But the charities, sports clubs, churches, community organisations, welfare groups, associations, unions, and foundations that draw on...

There are many events that have shaken Australia and reshaped its identity: Governor Philip switches from Botany Bay to Port Jackson; Gold rush fever sets off the Eureka stockade; The...

This special commemorative version of the seventh edition of Cookery the Australian Way features an 18-page overview of all seven editions, including comments from a range of people who have...

The book titled Libba: Living on the Edge by the author Tony Liberatore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Winning the Indianapolis 500, the greatest spectacle in motorsport, has been a quest for Australians and New Zealanders since the first race in 1911. Seventeen have tried and two have...

The book titled Hoddle Street: The Ambush and the Tragedy by the author Peter Haddow. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Australian test Cricketers is not only a complete illustrated player reference, it is hundreds of fascinating images criss-crossing many eras of Australian cricket. Images such as Arthur Coningham lighting a...

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...

Warm, witty, wise - and occasionally challenging - Just Saying is bestselling social psychologist Hugh Mackay's highly personal reflections on twenty-five quotations from some of the world's greatest thinkers and...

Collingwood Forever is the ultimate commemorative keepsake for all AFL and Collingwood Football Club fans. Relive the incredible journey to their 2023 AFL Premiership triumph with glorious, action-packed photos from...

'Very few public figures can claim the level of fame, or infamy, that Pauline does. So much so, her surname isn't needed. Everyone knows her, or knows of her, and...

The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville,...

South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo...

Cricket has been the heartbeat of Mike Hussey's life since the age of 12, about the time that he found it more comfortable to bat left-handed than right. He adores...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards 'A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao's extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese...

Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. Finalist at the Australian Business Book Awards - Leadership Category 2025 When...

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...

With new material reflecting on the changed state of the nation, this edition of the Walkley Award-winning The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis, one of our most respected journalists, will...

Charged, with Witness K, for allegedly breaching the Intelligence Services Act, Bernard Collaery provides the whole sordid backstory to Australian politics' biggest scandal'. In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former...

TODAY, THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY IS IN CRISIS. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at...

'This book is a great resource and every family should have one.' Kaarene Fitzgerald AC, Director, SIDS Australia Dear parents, Desperate to find a kid's birthday party venue that your...

National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture -...

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...

Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful...

"Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes." "Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes. We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for...

Ricky Nixon is the most powerful and influential AFL player manager of his generation. A fearless agent for change, he has represented many of the league's superstars over the last...

The Australian wool industry has seen boom times and busts, wars and droughts, political upheaval and market manipulation. Working his way up from jackeroo to chief executive officer, Alec experienced...

As a result of self-determination policy, the 'Indigenous Sector' - thousands of Indigenous organisations established since the early 1970s - has flourished, enhancing the Indigenous capacity to make choices. Tim...