True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer
37.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern TerritorySome stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
28.50 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
When Chairmen Were Patriots by Elizabeth Fysh
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
Fergus McMaster started with nothing and with his brothers built a sprawling pastoral empire in western Queensland. Following his return from World War I, a chance meeting outside Cloncurry with Lieutenant Paul McGinness took him on a new path. With Lieutenant Hudson Fysh, the three men followed the ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australian History
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Wild Bleak Bohemia by Michael Wilding
37.95 AUD
39.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian Biography
Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishi ...Show more
Wisdom of Oz: Australian Aphorisms by BLACK INC.
14.25 AUD
14.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The Wisdom of Oz presents the finest pearls of wisdom from Australians of all walks of life - from politicians to actors, journalists to sportspeople, bushrangers to businessmen. An aphorism worthy of its name requires truth, surprise and concision. In compiling the first Australian compendium of aphor ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality by Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich
28.50 AUD
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Category: Australian History
Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contribut ...Show more