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Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir
An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...
Symbols of Australia
How did the kangaroo transform from a bizarre curiosity to an internationally recognised symbol of Australia? How did Vegemite, a waste product of beer, come to be the most popular...
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...
Rocks to Riches: The Story of Australia's National Geological Survey
Rocks to Riches is the story of Australia's national geological survey, which started life as the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, and is now known as the Australian...
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now: Australian Stories from a Social
Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now reveals the legacies of homophobia, the personal struggles and triumphs involved in coming out, and the many different ways of being gay or lesbian...
Searching for the Snowy
$50.00 AUD
Shortlisted, Historical + Critical Studies Award Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1995
Australia: A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a
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...
Sydney Opera House: Idea to Icon
Sydney Opera House idea to icon tells the amazing story of this great building from inception as an orchestra conductor's idea to its World Heritage listing in 2007. The book...
Governing Savages
In 1928, after a white man was killed, a punitive party mounted a series of attacks on Aborigines northwest of Alice Springs. The party's leader admitted that 31 Aborigines were...
Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960
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
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,...
It's Not the Money it's the Land
As a result of the 1965 Equal Wages Case, Aboriginal people in Australia's north were forced into unemployment and off their country into refugee camps on the fringes of the...
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of
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...
Miss D and Miss N: an Extraordinary Partnership: the Diary of Anne
In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Philip. She was 47 years old, had a small inheritance, and was determined to be a sheep farmer. Soon after...
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...
Taking Risks: A History of the Qbe Insurance Group
The QBE Insurance Group is Australia's largest general insurer and its growth, nationally and internationally since its small beginnings in 1886, is the story of an institution that has played...
Men and How To Manage Them
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...
Australia 1872: How Bernhard Holtermann turned gold into a unique
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...
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn
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....
The Royals in Australia
$95.00 AUD
The relationship between Australia and the royal family is complex and fascinating. We are drawn to the pure magic of palaces, celebrity romance and high-fashion, but it goes deeper. This...
Royal Visits to Australia
$20.00 AUD
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 Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
On the Road
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...
Australia's Flying Doctor
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
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...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
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...
Charlie's Book
A work of local history chronicling the life and death of the rural township of Lyonville, a sawmilling settlement in the Wombat Forest region of Victoria's Central Highlands, Charlie's Book...
Lucky City
Ballarat was not a typical goldfield. The lava flows that created the fertile Western District of Victoria helped to bury the original streams and reefs so that there was little...
Tribe of Angels: Coming of Age in Melbourne
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Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University
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A Shorter History of Australia
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
$26.99 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
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A People's Counsel
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1956: The Year Australia Welcomed the World
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Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story
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Life Lines
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Macquarie
$20.00 AUD
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Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...