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The Proud Champions: Australia's Aboriginal Sporting Heroes

The Proud Champions: Australia's Aboriginal Sporting Heroes

$15.00 AUD
The book titled The Proud Champions: Australia's Aboriginal Sporting Heroes by the author Bret Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's

Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...
Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's

Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...
Glimpses of Life in Victoria By 'a Resident'

Glimpses of Life in Victoria By 'a Resident'

$60.00 AUD
John Hunter Kerr emigrated to Port Phillip from Scotland in 1839. He took up land, became a successful pastoralist and a prominent citizen of Melbourne. The story of the Kerrs'...
Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders

Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders

$87.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
This is an important book, whose content is unlike any other. It is about indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. Elders is a series of chapters...
Fishy Business: The story of Sydney and its fish markets

Fishy Business: The story of Sydney and its fish markets

$60.00 AUD
For millennia, the Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney lived in harmony with the natural environment. Fishing and shell fishing were a way of life. Everything changed with the arrival of...
The Australian Alps: Kosciuzko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

The Australian Alps: Kosciuzko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

$22.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
This guide is your key to the secrets of the three national parks that stretch over Australia's spectacularly beautiful rooftop - Kosciuszko in New South Wales, Alpine in Victoria and...
The Making of Modern Australia

The Making of Modern Australia

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Filled with reminiscences about Australia since World War Two plus William s own anecdotes and observations, THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA touches on the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the...
Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron Bay 1960s & 1970s

Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron Bay 1960s & 1970s

$75.00 AUD$63.75 AUD
Neverland is a social history of a surf town in Australia - which happens to be Byron Bay. It is the story of the surfers, American and Australian, who found...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

$174.95 AUD$80.00 AUD
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
How Australia Compares

How Australia Compares

$59.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with 17 other developed democracies on a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not...
The Light on the Hill

The Light on the Hill

$70.00 AUD
Originally published in 1992 to commemorate the centenary of Australia's oldest political party, this study contains an additional chapter which covers the two Paul Keating challenges and the political reversals...
The Bureaucrats' Domain

The Bureaucrats' Domain

$80.00 AUD
This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...
Australia: A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a

Australia: A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
How an ancient land became a great democracy. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative ' Geoffrey Blainey, historian Australia is one of...
Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960

Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960

$64.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
This book is the first comprehensive history of Australian education systems, programs and policies of the period since 1960. The narrative of changes in schooling, training and university life is...
The National Trust Research Manual

The National Trust Research Manual

$21.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
This guide to researching Australian history, designed to be easy to follow and informative, shows the beginner how to research and trace the history of houses, public buildings, industrial sites,...
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of

A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

$12.00 AUD
History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long...
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn

Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
Putting culture back in Agriculture. A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future....
Royal Visits to Australia

Royal Visits to Australia

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Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty...
The Bush

The Bush

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Why do we have such a profound attachment to the bush? Perhaps it is because the harsh, mysterious and utterly foreign outback provided the unforgiving crucible that created distinctly Australian...
On the Road

On the Road

$54.85 AUD$20.00 AUD
On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

$70.00 AUD
In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...
Australia's Flying Doctor

Australia's Flying Doctor

$16.39 AUD$6.00 AUD
Celebrating the people involved in the organization, the landscape they have flown over for 50 years and the spirit of the outback, this text by prize-winning author Robert McDonald and...
The Patchwork Nation

The Patchwork Nation

$29.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
this is a book about: the re-building of Australian democracy the re-invention of business and community in a global age and, the re-engagement of government in its task of serving...
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled...
A Shorter History of Australia

A Shorter History of Australia

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most...
The Bush

The Bush

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character. While...
Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990

Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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A People's Counsel

A People's Counsel

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Through Ice & Fire

Through Ice & Fire

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Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

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Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story

Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
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The Europeans in Australia

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Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800

Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800

$40.00 AUD
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50 People Who Stuffed up Australia

50 People Who Stuffed up Australia

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The Dismissal Dossier

The Dismissal Dossier

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Macquarie

Macquarie

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Born in 1939?: What Else Happened?

Born in 1939?: What Else Happened?

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Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia

Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia

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Tooth and Nail: the Story of the Rabbit in Australia: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia

Tooth and Nail: the Story of the Rabbit in Australia: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia

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