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Ultimate Campsites: Australia

Ultimate Campsites: Australia

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In Ultimate Campsites: Australia , Penny Watson maps out 75 of the country's most wild and wondrous nature-based campgrounds, from the turquoise and white sandy beaches of Queensland and pristine...
A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen

A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen

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In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became...
Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention:

Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention:

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When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks...
Bad Aboriginal Art

Bad Aboriginal Art

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Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels' period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television...
Our First Republicans: Selected writings of Lang, Harpur and Deniehy

Our First Republicans: Selected writings of Lang, Harpur and Deniehy

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Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments - concise, powerful and balanced - are as relevant...
Let's Save the Great Barrier Reef: Why we must protect our planet

Let's Save the Great Barrier Reef: Why we must protect our planet

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Discover why we must protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. The Great Barrier Reef is a wonderland of colour beneath the waves. The largest coral reef in the...
Finches of Australia

Finches of Australia

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Col Roberts is regarded as one of the world's leading landscape, fishing and bird photographers and has previously published five coffee table books including 'Australia's Kimberley - Vision of a...
Come to Dazzle: Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour

Come to Dazzle: Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour

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The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...
A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre bizarre de Barry

A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre bizarre de Barry

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Offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career Details Humphries as a daring post-modern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television and as an author of twenty-nine books A...
Moments in Time: True Life Stories of Australian Men and Women

Moments in Time: True Life Stories of Australian Men and Women

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Moments in Timerevisits some of the now largely forgotten people, passions and events from Australia's past. Among others, are: the famous Antarctic and war photographer Frank Hurley; the Beach Girl...
The Photographs Of Baldwin Spencer

The Photographs Of Baldwin Spencer

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In 1894, Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta...
Handbook of Australian Languages

Handbook of Australian Languages

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The Handbook volumes offer the only detailed and accurate records of many Australian languages that are extinct or on the verge of extinction. This volume provides a new introduction that...
The Chosen Few: A quest to name the ten greatest Australian and New

The Chosen Few: A quest to name the ten greatest Australian and New

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They are the greatest Australian and New Zealand racehorses of all time, the giants who transcend the sport, who broke records and captured hearts. But which are the best of...
Her Majesty's Pleasure: A Centenary Celebration for Adelaide's Theatre

Her Majesty's Pleasure: A Centenary Celebration for Adelaide's Theatre

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This unique book raises the curtain on the hidden history of Adelaide's most remarkable playhouse - Her Majesty's Theatre. For one hundred eventful years 'the Maj' has hosted an extraordinarily...
Aboriginal Spirit: Yolngu Mali: Aboriginal Spirit

Aboriginal Spirit: Yolngu Mali: Aboriginal Spirit

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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: Australian theatre and the international stage

Playing Australia: Australian theatre and the international stage

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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...
Blue Mountains Best Bushwalks: The Bestselling Colour Guide to Over 60

Blue Mountains Best Bushwalks: The Bestselling Colour Guide to Over 60

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The third edition of the bestselling Blue Mountains Best Bushwalks is the perfect companion for the bushwalking fan. The book features: * 66 different walks, varying in length from 30...
The Rainbow Beach Man: The Life and Times of Les Ridgeway, Worimi

The Rainbow Beach Man: The Life and Times of Les Ridgeway, Worimi

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The Rainbow Beach Man is the fascinating story of Les Ridgeway, Worimi Elder, and his struggle against adversity and racial discrimination. The eldest of a family of eight, he grew...
Sydney's Best Bush, Park & City Walks: Full-Colour Guide to Over 50

Sydney's Best Bush, Park & City Walks: Full-Colour Guide to Over 50

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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...
Rights for Aborigines

Rights for Aborigines

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'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967 Aboriginal people were...
Arts Management: A practical guide

Arts Management: A practical guide

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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...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in

Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in

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'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
We Didn't Think It Through

We Didn't Think It Through

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WINNER: 2024 MARION ACT Book of the Year, Books for Older Readers WINNER: 2024 Readings Young Adult Prize S HORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young...
Australians All Love Easter Eggs

Australians All Love Easter Eggs

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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....
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow

Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow

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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...
Walks in Nature: Australia

Walks in Nature: Australia

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115 great walking trails to embark on in Australia's most beautiful natural environments.
Lords and Larrikins: The actor's role in the making of Australia: The

Lords and Larrikins: The actor's role in the making of Australia: The

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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...
O Brave New World: Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian

O Brave New World: Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian

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Illustrated with over 60 archival photographs, many not previously published.<
Stephen Sewell: The Playwright as Revolutionary

Stephen Sewell: The Playwright as Revolutionary

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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...
Kamilaroi and Kurnai

Kamilaroi and Kurnai

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A 'landmark in Australian anthropology' when it first appeared in 1880, this is the first major analysis of Aboriginal social structure, adopting a model today termed 'social Darwinist'. While this...
Being Black: Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia

Being Black: Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia

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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...
Prehistory To Politics: John Mulvaney, The Humanities and the Public

Prehistory To Politics: John Mulvaney, The Humanities and the Public

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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...
The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

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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...
Aboriginal Frontiers And Boundaries In Australia

Aboriginal Frontiers And Boundaries In Australia

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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...
A Picnic with the Natives: Aboriginal-European Relations in the

A Picnic with the Natives: Aboriginal-European Relations in the

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As Europeans began arriving in the Australian Northern Territory, meetings of locals and intruders were at first cautious, nervous, but generally cordial. Distant officials urged liberality and restraint upon the...