A Democratic Nation: Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 by David Kemp
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Category: Australian History
A Democratic Nation- Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both national independence and individual freedom.As the third book in a landmark five-vol ...Show more
Angels of Mercy by Lynette Ramsay Silver
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Category: Australian History
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East follows the gripping stories of two different Australiannursing sisters, who overcame the challenging adversities of two very different circumstances.In the 1930s, Marjorie Silver was employed by The Far West Childrens Health Scheme andbecame their first permanen ...Show more
Australia's Military History for Dummies by Horner
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Category: Australian History
The simple and easy way to get your mind around Australia's military history More people are visiting Gallipoli and walking the Kokoda Trail each year — now find out why. This complete guide helps you trace the story of Australia's involvement in war, from the colonial conflicts with the Indigenous popu ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Australian History
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Bush Tragedies - True Stories of Crime, Murder, Misery and Heartache from Western New South Wales by Bill Poulos
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Category: Australian History
Former journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes, murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation.His detailed research takes the reader into townships, settlements and the wide-open spaces of the outb ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Australian History
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more
Eyre: The Intriguing Explorer by Ivan Rudolph
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Category: Australian History
WHO REALLY WAS EYRE?In every way Eyre was great, but also an enigma. This book tackles who he really was as much as taking you along with him in remarkable explorations and adventures.But how can you account for his extraordinarily positive relationships with Aborigines?Imagine yourself as the Aborigina ...Show more
Family Business Success Stories by Graeme Lofts
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
Family Business Success Stories tells the stories of eight of Australia's oldest and best-known family-owned businesses, all of them more than one hundred years old: A. H. Beard, Brown Brothers, Bulla Dairy, Coopers Brewery, Dymocks, Haigh's Chocolates, J.Furphy & Sons and Furphy Foundry, Samson Sad ...Show more
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
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Category: Australian History
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
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Category: Australian History
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
The Art of Science by Fornasiero
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Category: Australian History
It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
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Category: Australian History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more