Australia and the Monarchy by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today for most Australians an invitation to meet with royalty remains a pinnacle of social achievement and recognition. What is t ...Show more
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
The Family Court Murders: Now a Major ABC-TV Series by Debi Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
4 murders, 5 bombings and the perpetrator remains at large. At last, this is the definitive story of the Family Court Murders. An initiative of the Whitlam government and the Attorney-General, Lional Murphy, the "helping court" opened its doors on January 5, 1976. But the high idealism of the court's cr ...Show more
Australian Women War Reporters : Boer War to Vietnam by Jeannine Baker
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm? This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main ...Show more
Condemned to Crisis: A Lowy Institute Paper by Ken Ward
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Specials
It is often said that no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. Yet the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran is just the latest in a long line of crises that have marred relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Does Australia really need to do more to strengthen its ties with Ind ...Show more
Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more
Every Hill Got a Story by Central Land Council
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in the heart of Australia. It is for all who want to truly understand why nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a "lifestyle choice" but a hard won right, a spiritual and cultur ...Show more
After the Blast: An Australian Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan by Garth Callendar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb att ...Show more
Warrior Elite: Australia's Special Forces - From Z Force and the SAS to the Wars of the Future by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
WARRIOR ELITE is a unique and compelling account of Australia's special forces and intelligence operations - ranging from the early special forces of World War II to the establishment and development of the SAS and Commando Regiments as the elite fighters of today, and from the Australian Security Intel ...Show more
An Economy is Not a Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia by Dennis Glover
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three ...Show more
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia by Simon Ville
$190.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, ...Show more