The Coral Battleground by Judith Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland: 2000 kilometres of spectacular coral reefs, sand cays and islands, Australias most precious marine possession. Teeming with life, it covers 350,000 square kilometres. In the late 1960s the Reef was threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling ...Show more
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End by J. E. N. Veron
$35.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon rain forest or the parklands of Africa, but would en ...Show more
Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Australia has always been reliant on great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policy—first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand bargain wi ...Show more
A Shorter History of Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall po ...Show more
Australia on Horseback by Cameron Forbes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The first horse set foot in Australia on 30 January 1788, one of seven aboard the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, which also carried a cargo of female convicts. From then on, horses carried explorers who opened up the country to settlement. They carried Aboriginal mounted police, trained as ruthless killers ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
Ned Kelly by Peter Fitzsimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. History comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. Histor ...Show more
A History of Canberra by Nicholas Brown
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the cliches to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's ca ...Show more
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam #3 by Tom Keneally; Clare Drysdale (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australians
The outstanding final volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history takes up the story of Australia at the end of the Great War and explores its development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change ...Show more
Stand and Deliver: Fifty Years of the National Press Club of Australia by Steve Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
If Australian politics and public policy is a war of ideas, the National Press Club is the battleground. For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of political and social debate in Australia. Leaders and opinion-makers have used its stage to launch leadership bids, rattle the cage of ...Show more
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's fi ...Show more