Australasian History

At a time when politics seems increasingly negative and our society increasingly divided, Still Lucky shows that we are more fortunate than we think, and have more in common than...

This is a prestige edition which is why it is in hardback and is being printed in two colours. It is a concise history of the last 25 years in...

A chronicle of the daily life of Bondi vet Chris Brown. Chris is a country boy who grew up with a menagerie of pets and now, along with his failed...

Based on a major summer exhibition to be held at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, this book is a charming tribute to everything from the Holden to the Commodore. Featuring...

Well-known journalist, Mark Day, embarked on a journey across Australia, inviting some of his friends (such as Tom Keneally and Ken Done) to join him on his quest to find...

Australia once had extremely high levels of trade union participation, yet since the 1970s the number of union members has been falling dramatically. This book gives the clearest picture yet...

The traditional Aussie jokes told in pubs and cabs now compete with global jokes. It's Dad 'n' Dave versus Monica Lewinsky.

From nineteenth century impromptu football games to the professional matches of the Socceroos and Matildas on the international stage - Australia's fastest growing sport has a fascinating and turbulent history....

Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population's past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its...

For most people, their home is their biggest financial asset. Add to this that moving house is regarded as the third most stressful thing that happens in life (behind the...

Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia, but find a place both beautiful and disturbing. There is wilderness, desire and an Aboriginal philosophy of home. But...

'On the last day, we flew out to Manono aboard an RNZAF Iroquois. The doors were open and the beauty of Samoa was literally beneath our feet. I have always...

Travel has always been central to the experience of living in Australia and to giving that life meaning. For Aboriginal Australians, identity was bound up in the travelling of the...

When the author took up the offer of a lifetime - to spend three months in Australia's remote Kimberley region - he hoped to land a big barramundi. Travelling through...

From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars. Helicopter pilot...

Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistake. Yet, in After...

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words- 'The world is split between those...

In the early 1980s, when Erna Walraven decided to follow her dreams and become one of the first female zookeepers in Australia, she thought her biggest challenges would be feeding...

Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a 'lucky country' with a strong economy,...

The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one...

A beautifully described journey across Australia's desert, and into its shocking past. In critically acclaimed Desert Divers and Exterminate all the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts, and unearthed...

A story about family, connection and the distance we will go to be with the ones we love. In 2020, as the world is closing its borders, journalist Megan Clement...

Santa has a very special present to deliver, but will he be able to find it in time? Join Santa and his little helper as they fly towards Australia, and...

Nothing captures the hearts and minds of rugby league fans more than State of Origin and Will Evanss A History of State of Origin is the most comprehensive book on...

Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when 'imagination, skill, and daring' was the source of children's play. Quoits and jacks, hide and seek, cricket with a kerosene tin for...

For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He's covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he's watched thirteen treasurers...

What bush life was really like before the days of motorbike and helicopters. Brian Taylor has lived in the Queensland bush almost all his life, and knows it well: the...

Men and How To Manage Them by 'An Old Housekeeper' is a facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1885 by A.H. Massina in Melbourne. It is augmented with...

*** REDUCED TO $49.99 WHILST STOCKS LAST *** 'Nomad Two Worlds' traces the remarkable creative journey of internationally renowned Australian photographer Russell James through his fine art project, 'Nomad Two...

Bernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the world. Holtermann shared...

In 2013 Cathy McGowan became the first female independent to sit on the crossbench, where she would represent the Victorian rural electorate of Indi for six years. Winning the seat...

The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia's foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. What if the hot-tempered,...

In her compelling memoir, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil shared the incredible story of her life in the turbulent world of Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s....

In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after...

Beautifully designed, this book has been written by the Indigenous staff at the Powerhouse and Melbourne museums. It presents a diverse range of Indigenous cultural expression from across Australia including...

What a glorious decade for beer - the 1980s. This book will release a wealth of memories for anyone who was there or would like to have been. This is...

What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food...