Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake by Joy Damousi (Editor); Judith Smart (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian History Ser.
One of Australias leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades across a number of universities. Her books have significantly advanced our understandings, not only of Australian social, cultural and political history but also ...Show more
Moss Cass and the Greening of the Australian Labor Party by Moss Cass; Vivien Encel; Anthony O¿Donnell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The Greening of the Australian Labor PartyIn 1972, Dr Moss Cass found himself minister responsible for Australia¿s first Department of Environment and Conservation in Gough Whitlam¿s newly elected Labor government. Long-haired, bearded, unapologetically a champion of progressive causes, Cass was to face ...Show more
Squatters by JAMES FERGUSON
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Told largely in the words of those involved, this is the story of squatting in the new colony. Squatters' rugged individualism did much to form the Australian character, and theirs is a story of courage and determination, but also of tragedy as economic progress led to the degradation of the land and de ...Show more
Of Labour & Liberty: Distributism in Victoria 1891-1966 by Race Mathews
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This book arises from the author's half a century and more of political and public policy involvement. It's a response to evidence of a precipitous decline in active citizenship, resulting from a loss of confidence in politics, politicians, parties and parliamentary democracy; the rise of 'lying for hir ...Show more
Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history by Ben Silverstein
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This collection traces the legacy of Richard Broome's pathbreaking work in Aboriginal history by presenting innovative work that assesses and transforms a broad range of important debates that have captured both scholarly and popular attention in recent years. The book brings together a range of promine ...Show more
Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections by Barry Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This collection of insights from Barry Jones includes new and updated reflections on the big issues and concerns locally, nationally and internationally. Understand more about the key immediate and long term issues and problems that face our world and lives, from climate change and discrimination to the ...Show more