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Toowoomba to Torokina: The 25th Battalion in peace and war, 1918-1945

Toowoomba to Torokina: The 25th Battalion in peace and war, 1918-1945

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Toowoomba to Torokina traces the proud history of the 25th Battalion from the end of one war to end of the next. It tells the story of the men from...
Game for Anything: The Tommy Lahiff Story

Game for Anything: The Tommy Lahiff Story

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Tommy Lahiff is a legend. The roles he has played as footballer, coach and commentator, and the esteem in which he is held in the Melbourne football world, would be...
Through the Wire: Action with the SAS in Borneo and the Special Forces

Through the Wire: Action with the SAS in Borneo and the Special Forces

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The United States Special Forces, the Green Berets, were often regarded as the elite of the American forces and their mobile strike force, the 'Mike Force', was considered the elite...
Rock Paintings of Aboriginal Australia

Rock Paintings of Aboriginal Australia

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This is the eighth volume of the popular Green Guide series initiating readers into the world of natures's deadly armoury. Discover poisonous fangs, venomous spurs, disease-laden body piercing, slicing jaws,...
This is Australia

This is Australia

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The Green and Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today

The Green and Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today

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An irresistible book for cricket fans - Australia's leading cricket writer on the national team, its stars and successes, opponents and adventures. In his latest collection of cricket writing, Gideon...
It's Not the Money it's the Land

It's Not the Money it's the Land

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As a result of the 1965 Equal Wages Case, Aboriginal people in Australia's north were forced into unemployment and off their country into refugee camps on the fringes of the...
Ashes Fever

Ashes Fever

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It had been 18 years since England had last won the Ashes. Since then, Australia, their fiercest rivals and the world's best test team throughout this time, had prevailed. But...
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade

Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade

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Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then...
Country Australia

Country Australia

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While the majority of Australians live close to the coast, the heart of our nation is still in the country, as spectacularly displayed in this collection of photographs by renowned...
Kel's Corner

Kel's Corner

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For the first time Kel's Corner, a widely read column and a favourite on the Bellarine Coast, has been compiled in a single volume. Ken Davis's stories, as told to...
Australia's Southern Shores

Australia's Southern Shores

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An easy-to-follow guide to the marine and plant life on the beach, on rocky and sheltered shores and in the water all year round. This handy reference introduces a wonderful...
Scrublands: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year, soon to be a

Scrublands: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year, soon to be a

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* * *NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES * * * THE #1 BESTSELLING AUSTRALIAN CRIME NOVEL WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE...
The PWMU Cookbook

The PWMU Cookbook

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The PWMU COOKBOOK has a unique place in Australian kitchens. First published in 1904 and revised and reprinted many times since, it has sold well over 500,000 copies. This fifth...
Calving Straps and Zombie Cats

Calving Straps and Zombie Cats

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The hilarious true adventures of two young vets dealing with all creatures (and humans!) great and small in country Australia. 'This is a wonderful memoir ... the only fault I...
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002

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Offers a survey of the important developments in Australian art since 1968, critically assessing the interconnection of art and significant moments of social and cultural development.
A Future In Flames, A

A Future In Flames, A

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What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires? Have humans made things worse, or better? Is it possible to live in the Australian bush but be...
Australia And Israel

Australia And Israel

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On the surface Australia seems to have always been a close friend of Israel, but in fact this has often not been the case. This text rasies the fundamental question...
The Ultimate Australian Adventure Guide

The Ultimate Australian Adventure Guide

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This is the how, where and why of adventure sports. It provides authoritative, up-to-date information on 23 activities including: abseiling, ballooning, bungy jumping, bushwalking, camel trekking, canoeing, canyoning, caving, cross-country...
The Reef: A Passionate History

The Reef: A Passionate History

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The first social, cultural and environmental history of this World Heritage-listed site, The Reef is an effortlessly readable work by a born storyteller. There has never been a more critical...
Crims in Grass Castles

Crims in Grass Castles

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The story of how Australia's most wanted man in the '80s - mafia drug boss Robert Trimbole - had activist Donald Mackay murdered, trafficked heroin with Terry Clark and the...
Wanted for Questioning: Interviews with Australian Comic Artists

Wanted for Questioning: Interviews with Australian Comic Artists

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In this book Bramwell and Matthews have interviewed 31 Australian comic artists, looking at why they make us laugh and how they construct their work. The interviews look at the...
ANZAC Cove to Afghanistan: The History of the 3rd Brigade

ANZAC Cove to Afghanistan: The History of the 3rd Brigade

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As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Australian...
Prophecy and Passion: Essays In Honour of Athol Gill

Prophecy and Passion: Essays In Honour of Athol Gill

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Athol Gill sought to show that participation in community was integral to Christian descipleship. He recognized that individuals do not have the spiritual or material resources to maintain a lifestyle...
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...
Vintage Keating: His Wit and Wisdom

Vintage Keating: His Wit and Wisdom

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So far, Paul Keating is the only Australian Prime Minister to provide star material for a musical comedy. Who can imagine any of the others doing that? Even before he...
Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965

Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965

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This is an extensive biography of Queen Salote of Tonga. It is also a political and social history of the kingdom of Tonga between the years of 1900 and 1965....
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...
A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Writing in Australia

A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Writing in Australia

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With over 1000 detailed entries, this essential reference shows the vibrancy, strength and diversity of gay and lesbian writing and culture in Australia. It includes authors and the titles of...
Amazing Facts About Australia's Early Settlers

Amazing Facts About Australia's Early Settlers

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Australia is unique in being home to an ancient, 60,000-year-old Indigenous culture and also a very young European influence of just over 200 years. While their coexistence has been far...
In the Land of Oz

In the Land of Oz

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_______________ 'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Review 'The most successful...
Iron Roads in the Outback

Iron Roads in the Outback

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Reprinting 2019 The Iron Roads of the Australian Outback - the legendary Commonwealth Railways were built through some of the harshest landscapes on Earth. They were railways like no other,...
Life's an Adventure: The First Twenty-five Years

Life's an Adventure: The First Twenty-five Years

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Duncan's journey to become one of the world's leading panoramic photographers has been by turn emotional, chaotic, dramatic, inspirational and physically gruelling. In this book, he tells many of the...
World War I: The Conflict That Gave Rise to the ANZAC Legend

World War I: The Conflict That Gave Rise to the ANZAC Legend

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This was "the war to end all wars"; a conflict in which 155,000 Australian servicemen were wounded and over 60,000 died. Through the devastation it left behind, it changed the...
Mary Mackillops Sisters: A Life Unveiled

Mary Mackillops Sisters: A Life Unveiled

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The incredible story of Sister Mary MacKillop, from nun to saint. 'It's the nuns I remember. An oddity to outsiders; mainstream to any Catholic. Hardly a classroom was without one....
The Tears of Strangers

The Tears of Strangers

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A family memoir charting the political and social changes of Aborigines over the past 40 years. Stan Grant was born in 1963 into the Wiradjuri people -- a tribe of...
The Whole Australian Football Catalogue

The Whole Australian Football Catalogue

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This book is a light-hearted but comprehensive guide to the best and the worst of the AFL national code. From the beginning, from "God" - Gary Ablett - to legions...