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Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and ...
Few Australians have any awareness of how their nation was established on 1 January 1901 when six self-governing British colonies joined together as one nation ...
From Walkley Award-winning writer, Gary Linnell comes the greatest Australian story never told - until now.
'Always compelling, very entertaining.' Daily Telegraph
'A fabulous yarn. Highly ...
This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention ...
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal ...
Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men ...
'Meticulous research. . . Veitch fleshes out a tale of courage and tragedy and brings it to life with drama, passion and detail.' Herald Sun
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Bernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold ...
"There will be a black Springbok over my dead body."
Just a year after ...
Harold Bell Lasseter had always claimed he had found an immense reef of gold hundreds of miles west of Alice Springs. In 1930, with Australia ...
An authentic picture of life among the headunting warriors of the Torres Strait islands, now in its 24th edition.
Renowned Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) had a lifelong fascination with socialist politics. In his early life he was active in the ...
Graham Berry (1822-1904) was colonial Australia's most gifted, creative and controversial politician. A riveting speaker, a newspaper proprietor and editor, and the founder of ...
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each ...
In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by ...
