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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Gender Violence in Australia - Historical Perspectives by Alana Piper (Editor); Ana Stevenson (Editor)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third ...Show more
Great Whales by John Bannister
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Australian Natural History Series
Seven 'great whales' are found in the coastal waters surrounding Australia. There are six of the largest baleen whales - blue whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sei whale, Bryde's whale and southern right whale. Also found is the largest toothed whale - the sperm whale.This book provides a relatively det ...Show more
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
$69.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Aust ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
Possums of Australia: The Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider by Anne Kerle
$39.95 AUD
Category: Field Guides | Series: Australian Natural History Series
Possums are the most common arboreal mammal in Australia. - Understandably, many people find the doe-eyed and bushy-tailed critters to be very appealing: many feed them from their suburban balconies while others volunteer to care for injured or orphaned animals. In many parts of Australia, the wellbeing ...Show more
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll | Reading Level: near fine
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more