Abandoned New South Wales by Shane Thoms
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Category: Australiana
Discarded architectural legacies, the abandoned factories, homes and public places of New South Wales, are small footnotes of history. Here, the past and present clash to reveal a handful of small vignettes that whisper the secrets of those who came to live and dwell. Here are clues that speak of the fo ...Show more
Australia's Looming Energy Crisis: Can We Keep the Lights On? by Alan G. Lawrenson
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Category: Australiana
The book is about Australias looming energy crisis. It looks at energy sources including coal, gas, hydro and pumped hydro, solar and onshore and offshore wind as well as long term energy storage. It reviews the critical minerals that Australia needs. The book is a detailed analysis of Australias loomin ...Show more
Cry Me a River by POSSELT Steve
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Category: Australiana
The account of one man's journey to the heart of Australia's water crisis. Steve Posselt put everything on the line to paddle or drag a kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide down the full length of the Darling and lower Murray so he could see first hand what is happening to Australia's rivers. Along the way h ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
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Category: Indigenous Australians
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
The Many Lives of Barry Humphries (PB): A Treasury of Reminisces by Rowan Dean
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Category: Australian Biography
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces th ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
37.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
Australian Slang by Anon
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Category: Australiana | Reading Level: very good
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023 by Russ Radcliffe
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australian Politics | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Featuring Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Johannes Leak, Sean Leahy, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Ro ...Show more
Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
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Category: Indigenous Australians
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal People have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of their native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the ki ...Show more
DELVE-Ing into Cultural Humility by Cindy Mathers
27.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australians
Creating a Nation That Is Fair for Us AllCindy Mathers has experienced firsthand the impact of our traumatised, fragmented, and broken systems on First Nations people, and indeed us all. She has been mentored by and worked collaboratively with First Nations people for over two decades, learning through ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more