How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
The Platoon Commander by John O Halloran, Ric Teague
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of the war, including Operation Hobart and the Batt ...Show more
The Trials of Portnoy by Patrick Mullins
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government offic ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Yarns by Bill Marsh
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
THINKING BLACK: WILLIAM COOPER by ATTWOOD B & NARKUS A
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Cooper, one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia's history. "Thinking Black" tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League, and ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.'-Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridiculous ...Show more
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands by Ngarukuruwala Women’s Group
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islands through song. The songs presented in this book hold cultural, genealogical, geographical and spiritual knowledge that has been passed down through thousa ...Show more
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more
Venom: The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan James Murray
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taip ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
Australia's Pivot to India by Andrew Charlton
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton The time has come for Australia and India to forge closer ties - and reap the benefits. But will Australia seize the opportunity? India is on the rise ...Show more