Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aborig ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
Currowan: A story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer by Bronwyn Adcock
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed worldCurrowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales in 2019-20. Ignited by a lightning strike near the Currowan state forest and bur ...Show more
Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies (In the National Interest) by Wayne Errington, Peter van Onselen
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous twenty years. As another election approaches, though, ...Show more
Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific (In the National Interest) by Richard Marles
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
As the many nations of the Pacific deal with the threat of climate change, including rising sea levels and lessening access to fresh water, they are also suffering from some of the slowest rates of development of any region on earth. Now more than ever, the Pacific needs a champion, and that champion ne ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brot ...Show more
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...Show more
The Bible in Australia - A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius — nobody’s land, free to be taken. True Tracks is a ground-breaking work that paves the way for the respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and cultures. Combining real-world cases and personal stories, award-winning Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer D ...Show more
French Connection - Australia's Quest to Become a Cosmopolitan Nation by Alexis Bergantz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First W ...Show more