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
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future (Updated Edition) by Rory Medcalf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Updated edition covering the strategic impacts of Covid-19, China's economic coercion against Australia, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, the Quad and US-China rivalry.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor fo ...Show more
Don't Call Us Carnies: We are Showies and damn proud of it by Norma Brophy, Wendy Stuart
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
While many Australian teenagers have dreamed of joining a travelling circus, Norma Brophy wanted to run away from it. As a born and bred 'show person', she adored her early years on the road, running wild in town after town with her fellow little 'showies'. But growing up backstage of a famed travelling ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
Charles Strong's Australian Church - Christian Social Activism, 1885-1917 by Marion Maddox
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The untold story of Reverend Dr Charles Strong and progressive Christian activismIn the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Galvanising many members of Melbourne's social and politic ...Show more
Growing Up in Australia by BLACK INC.
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Growing Up
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory w ...Show more
Flynn of the Inland and the Royal Flying Doctor Service by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion Idriess. Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on ...Show more
Governing in the Age of the Internet by Paul Fletcher
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Over the past thirty years, the internet has transformed virtually every area of human activity, social and economic. The bulk of these changes have been positive, allowing people to work, imagine and connect with each other in new ways. The boost to economic activity has been enormous. But along with t ...Show more
Population Shock (In the National Interest) by Abul Rizvi
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Long-term population directions, in terms of both size and age composition, drive the destiny of all nations. While for decades we have worried about global overpopulation, it is far more likely that the period 1950–2050 will be an extraordinary population growth shock, culminating in severe population ...Show more