The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In times past there was an Aboriginal man called Cumbo Gunnerah His people called him The Red Kangaroo. He was a clever chief and a mighty fighter (this man from Gunnedah) Later, the white people of this place called him The Red Chief. It would be hard to find a more satisfying hero than the young warri ...Show more
Restless Giant: Changing cultural values in regional Australia by Hume, Lindy
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Culture Heist: Art versus Money by Judith White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A much-loved cultural institution facing a cost-cutting government, a board dominated by the big end of town, and a management fixated on an ambitious building project. It's a true story. Culture Heist lifts the veil on what goes on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Judith White worked there for 12 ...Show more
Sydney Noir : The Golden Years by Michael Duffy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and other activities that made colourful characters such as Lennie McPherson, Abe Saffron and George Freeman wealthy and, to many, fol ...Show more
The Long Road: Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions by Tom Frame
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Acsacs Ser.
The Long Road analyses the ADF's 'train, advise, assist'missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea,Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, South Vietnam andUganda. With contributions from media commentatorsChris Masters and Ian McPhedran, politicians KevinAndrews and David Feeney, academics, aid workers ...Show more
Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather - The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess by Prudence Black
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world. This was a job like no other-filled with adventure, shiny new technology, and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed, and squeeze ...Show more
Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more
Alice Springs: From singing wire to iconic outback town by Stuart Traynor
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1870 a colonial government, on the brink of collapse, made an audacious move. South Australia's squabbling politicians briefly put aside their differences and took the bold decision to run an iron wire to the middle of nowhere and beyond. Stringing the Overland Telegraph Line across the silent heart ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
A Passion for Exploring by Josephine Bastian
$44.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Australian history...does not read like history', Mark Twain complained in 1897, 'but like the most beautiful lies...It is full of surprises and adventures, incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' He might have been thinking of Matthew Flinders ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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They Cannot Take the Sky by Michael Green (Editor); Angelica Neville; Andrea Dao; Dana Affleck; Sienna Merope
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.