Australasian History

For tens of thousands of years the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land have lived a life rich in culture and tradition. Much of that ancient way of life remains today...

Playing Australia explores the insights and challenges that Australian theatre can offer the international theatre community. Collectively, the essays in this book ask what Australian drama is, has been, and...

The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the...

With over 50 walks, all the major local National Parks included and many otherwise rarely visited tracks given a new lease of life, Sydney's Best Bush Park & City Walks...

Arts management is no longer a resting place for enthusiastic amateurs or artists with insufficient talent to make the big time. Rather, it is increasingly being recognised as a profession...

Australians all love Easter eggs of every size and shape. When Aussies see an Easter egg they say, 'You beauty, mate!' The Aussie animals love doing an Easter egg hunt....

Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission...

115 great walking trails to embark on in Australia's most beautiful natural environments.

This radical new account reveals the central importance of the male performer in Australian public life, showing how the aspiring middle classes turned to actors to teach them public behaviour...

Illustrated with over 60 archival photographs, many not previously published.<

An interpretative and critical analysis of the work of Stephen Sewell, an Australian playwright. The book is aimed primarily at students but should also be of value to those in...

It is a common belief that Aboriginal people of predominantly mixed descent, living in Australian cities, country towns and Aboriginal communities, have lost their culture. Often lacking the more obvious...

Explores the role of the public intellectual by examining the life and work of John Mulvaney, one of Australia's foremost prehistorians. Who are public intellectuals? Why do they matter? What...

These were the halycon days, before television. For Australian people radio was a major source of entertainment and information, a link to worlds far beyond their own. This book evokes...

In four detailed case studies, two political geographers explore the nature of Aboriginal boundaries and their contemporary implications. Before the coming of Europeans, Aboriginal communities lived within territories defined by...

Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...

This book takes us inside the complex lived experience of being a First Nations student in predominantly non-Indigenous schools in Australia. Built around the first-hand narratives of Aboriginal and Torres...

This groundbreaking book presents a national picture of who succeeds and who fails at school. . Half the boys living in working-class suburbs to the west and north of Melbourne...

John Olsen's atelier, The Bakery Art School, was a uniquely exciting arts institution that deserves to be better known. Established in an old bakery building in Sydney's Paddington in 1967,...

The Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms....

Disregard the critics. Australia's ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC's home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives...

Stacey Casey is a fun and adventurous middle grade series that will take kids on a wild ride into the past. On their journey, readers will discover surprising and sometimes...

Some parts of the Australian landscape are more than 100 million years old. The dinosaurs roamed a land in which Kakadu, the Macdonnell and Flinders ranges, the Arcoona Plateau and...

Stunning foliage plants to set off your garden chosen by one of Australia's leading garden design experts, Rosemary Davies. No more trudging through garden nurseries; no more deciphering rain-soaked labels;...

In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main...

Creating Frames traces the journey behind a substantial national body of work and its importance in ensuring that Indigenous Voices are heard. Creating Frames provides the first significant social and...

Old Trafford, 4 June 1993, 3.05pm. It's one of those moments in time that Australian cricket lovers will forever re-live. With his very first delivery in Ashes Tests, Shane Warne...

Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction- where we have been and what we have become. After the Celebration explores Australian fiction...

This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artefact. It attempts to understand the period during which it emerged, culminating in Federation in 1901. Irving looks...

Popular imagination has made the pub an enduring cultural icon in Australian life. Since colonisation the pub has played a quintessential part in Australian life, both socially and economically. In...

With the granting of the vote to women in 1902 Australian suffragist Rose Scott told male politicians that their names would be remembered when the names of the suffragettes had...

And Bring the Darkness Home is a haunting exploration of how the mental scars of war destroyed an international cricket career, tore a family apart and left destitute a man...

Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures....

This is an update of the essential companion for the urban explorer ? visitor or local.Catering for all ages and interests, Walking Sydney reveals the historic past and modern verve...

Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight inthe discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of alienspuzzling over golf balls on...

This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo,...