Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
Enchanted Beneath the Bluff - Agnes and Geraldine's Pursuit of Elwood's Elusive Black Diamonds by Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Andrea Arnold
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Within a place of love, sorrow and salvation, where Elwood’s Swamp met St Kilda’s Red Bluff, two ardent women, Agnes Simmons and Geraldine Minet, challenged providence and geology. In the days of Suffrage and Spiritualism, these two daring Theosophists sought to bring prosperity to Colonial Victoria o ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...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
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003-2017 by Michael Wesley
40.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In 2003 Australia conceived, financed and led a Pacific-wide intervention into Solomon Islands to prevent the collapse of that state. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was to remain there for fourteen years, costing over $2 billion and involving thousands of soldiers, police and ...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 Menzies Watershed - Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Continuities 1943-1954 Volume 2 by Zachary Gorman
50.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its state-led vision for post-war reconstruction toppled b ...Show more