Aboriginal Stories of Australia by Reed A W
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A collection of traditional Aboriginal tales, myths and legends. Learn how Yhi the sun goddess introduced life to the world, why the emu cannot fly and how the kangaroo got its tail. This new edition includes a glossary, giving the English translation for many Aboriginal words used in the text.
After Before Time by Robbi Neal
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip
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Category: Australiana | Series: Outback finds adventure & love
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching ...Show more
An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
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Category: Australian Biography
The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded Dennis him ...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
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
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Category: Indigenous Australians
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
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Category: Australiana
'Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.'In a new edition, twenty Australian midwives reflect on their practice and its changes with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthurMidwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the mos ...Show more
Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
'We're not perfect, but we're working on it' -- Hoges' love letter to Australia Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, ...Show more
Australian Dreaming Stories by Ellen Anderson
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal storyteller Ellen Anderson told these stories to C.W. Peck for his AUSTRALIAN LEGENDS (1923). Introduced by Michael Organ.
Australian Outback Yarns : Bull From the Bush by Bob Flatt
22.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
Bob Flatt brings to life many of his hair-raising adventures and the characters he met along the way. It tells of a world before technology took over, when each cattle station was its own self-contained community, drovers still roamed the land and the spirit of mateship was a matter of life and death. ...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