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
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the w ...Show more
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and a complex and controversial legacy debated to this day. ---On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as t ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of ten years of investigation by award-winning journalist Christine Kenneally. What she has uncovered is shocking, yet it was all hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages all over the ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career.Austral ...Show more