Nabbing Ned Kelly: The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia’s Notorious Outlaw to Justice by David Dufty
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang. This pacey account of the capture of the Kelly Gang reads like a detective story. He lurched through the smoke, his armour glinting in the moonlight, and started shooting. To the weary men ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ: Australia's 'Mission Girl' Annie Lock by Catherine Bishop
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Who was responsible for the 1928 Coniston Massacre in Central Australia where a police party killed 100 Aboriginal people? Not those who pulled the trigger, according to the Enquiry. Instead it was 'a woman missionary living amongst naked blacks'. This was Annie Lock, the 'whistle-blower' who caused the ...Show more
Where Spirits Dwell by Karina Machado
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A captivating exploration of haunted-house stories from around Australia. It will unearth the creaking, spine-chilling moments when ghosts appear in suburbia. Karina Machado spins a web of wonder and often the interviewees' lives prove just as fascinating as the spooky experiences they're sharing. She w ...Show more
South Flows the Pearl - Chinese Australian Voices by Mavis Gock Yen; Siaoman Yen (Editor); Richard Horsburgh (Editor); Sophie Loy-Wilson (Introduction by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in thei ...Show more
Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more publi ...Show more
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A special 90th anniversary edition of the definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.
Chasing Shadows: The untold and deadly story of terrorism in Australia by Kristy Campion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From Irish revolutionaries to the Christchurch massacre, Chasing Shadows uncovers the long and brutal history of terrorism in Australia. Australia likes to assume that extremists and their dark ideas can be stopped at the border. But Fortress Australia, and the sense of security it provides, is an illu ...Show more
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other by John Richens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A study of culture, colonialism, and an epidemic in New GuineaWhen the Dutch government moved to stop headhunting by the Marind people of New Guinea in 1902 their actions unleashed new epidemics among a population already suffering from low fertility. Donovanosis (Tik Merauke in Marind), a rare, newly r ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more