Australasian History

A gently lyrical story about discovering Country and the importance of family, friendship and the magic of the bush, from an emerging Indigenous talent and winner of a black&write! Fellowship....

Sport was never meant to be complicated. No gibberish, no statistics, no talk of green-zones, black-zones, channels and percentage plays, no cheating, no grubbiness and certainly no ball-tampering. Peter FitzSimons...

Santa can't visit until you're fast asleep, so snuggle up and read what happens on Christmas Eve when things don't go quite as planned. Featuring all new artwork by Lee...

David Whish-Wilson's Perth is a place of surprising beauty, of sand-swept peace and brilliant light, yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too far beneath the surface....

The story of Caroline Byrne, the 24-year-old model who was allegedly pushed to her death at The Gap by her boyfriend, Gordon Wood, who faces trial next year. The Wood's...

Lewis Morley was born in Hong Kong in 1925 and was repatriated to England in 1945. A growing interest in photography saw him begin working for Tatler and other magazines,...

This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...

BROADCAST WARS is an explosive look at a tumultuous period (2003-2011) in Australian television as the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management...

Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle-class Australian couple with everything, but beneath the veneer of perfection there had been a relationship marred by affairs, obsession and a history...

Tim Bowden loves travelling and camping and has a great interest in Australian history. So, when he decided to take off to Western Australia with his wife Ros and their...

"60 Minutes" is Australia's most successful current affairs programme, watched each week by millions. This insider's story by a producer with more than nine years direct working experience on the...

George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...

This volume is based on the 1995 version of the "Black Book", and is designed to serve as a text for TAFE students who are pursuing courses based on the...

This exquisite art book contains the precious story and transformative work of celebrated artists now living in an aged care facility in Ngaanyatjarra country, a remote and isolated community that...

* 464 pages * Lavishly illustrated with more than 550 colour photographs on gloss paper thr oughout * Perfect bound A5 * For student, beachcomber or child * Unique species...

A parenting guide that deals with one of the most significant transition periods of a child's life - starting secondary school. 'We want to give you and your child the...

'The morning after meeting Hugh, I was heading out the door when I saw I had a new message. I opened it cautiously and saw six words that made my...

In 1959 David Hill s mother a poor single parent living in England reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was...

From caravan craft projects to tips on how to select the best caravan park, Kate Ulman takes a whimsical and nostalgic look at caravanning holidays in the modern world. Kate...

If you enjoy a short break or holiday away from urban centres and want to journey into the 'real' Australia, or if you're a more experienced 4WD enthusiast, then this...

This is the seventh of the 1940s and the eighteenth to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to...

Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a...

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is THE classic Australian work of reference. Volume 16-the last of four volumes to deal with the period 1940-1980-is used by writers, scholars, researchers and...

Never out of style, plants are one of the most enduring popular home ornaments. Their natural good looks suit any type of decorating theme and recent research shows that foliage...

'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial...