Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering- jilted lovers could claim compensation for 'breach of promise to marry'. Hu ...Show more
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942 by James Mitchell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and 1942 the battalion fought two short and costly campaigns. The first, against the Vichy French in Syria, was victorious and won them f ...Show more
Every Australian Counts: The Birth of the NDIS by Michael Epis, Anita Phillips
$25.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
The NDIS has directly helped more than 600,000 Australians-and indirectly more than two million-vastly improving the lives of a group of people who had been left behind- people with disability. It is the most audacious and ambitious piece of social architecture since Medicare. With its beginnings in the ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
'In reading the book, parts of Howitt's character made my skin crawl, but the uncovering of his life was revelatory ... I believe the publication of Line of Blood will be at a very pertinent time' -Bruce PascoeLine of Blood- The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ables ...Show more
The Australian Women's Weekly: Celebrating 90 Years of an Australian Icon by The Australian Women's Weekly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On the morning of June 10, 1933, newspaper sellers were struggling to keep up with demand as a new periodical flew off the shelves. Two large headlines clamoured for attention on the cover- "Equal Social Rights for Sexes!" cried one, while the second, "What Smart Sydney Women Are Wearing," was accompani ...Show more
The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1 by John Fahey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time. 'This story has never been told, because in the secret world we could not, and cannot, share what we do all day, even with family and loved ones.' - from the foreword by Rachel Noble, Dir ...Show more
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by ARROW, MICHELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for wome ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australians
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more