Australasian History

Which miniscule non-elected group can force governments to change their policies? Which group can today be a barrier to reform, and then tomorrow set in train changes which alter the...

In breathtaking images and insightful essays, Gardens on the Edge explores 18 Australian gardens that are defined by extraordinary horizons. Each of the featured landscapes - from every state and...

The Victoria Cross is the highest award for valour that can be won by an Australian; just 97 Australians have been awarded the VC in conflicts from the Boer War...

In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of...

The book titled The Australian Legal Dictionary by the author Stephen Marantelli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Armies of Empire uniquely reflects upon the experience of two divisions from different armies facing similar challenges in the Second World War. The 9th Australian Division and the British 50th...

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...

`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....

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...

This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her...

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...

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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...

Covers Australia's operatic fare during the 60 years from the death of impressario Lyster to the beginning of World War II.

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...

Lake Eyre in Outback Australia

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...

This book takes the Immortals concept made famous in cricket andapplies it to motorsport, choosing the best of the best from Bathurstand the Australian Touring Car Championship (now the Supercars...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This lavishly illustrated work takes the reader on a journey around one of Australia's most beautiful states. Areas covered include Adelaide, with its Mediterranean climate, the Fleurieu Peninsula, with its...

p>A beautiful pictorial book featuring some of the most amazing places on this continent/p>p>Whether it be outback, coastal or rural - each chapter starts with a brief introduction and is...

The "Baggy Green" is the official Australian cricket test team cap. Viv Jenkins, who has been the official photographer for cricket in Australia for the best part of 20 years,...