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The reef-strewn passage between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea remains the most hazardous of all the major Straits in the world. It is ...
This is the rollicking tale of Australia's first true adventure playground, when children were allowed to use a patch of public land as their ...
Harold Bell Lasseter claimed to have found an immense reef of gold in Central Australia and he dissapeared while searching for the reef in 1930 ...
The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (18872008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly ...
Railway lines are typically shown on maps as permanent, however many lines are now abandoned. But the experiences of rail trips to distant places by ...
A political betrayal.
A constitutional crisis.
A hidden correspondence.
Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years ...
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a maledomain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind ...
The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers ...
Intrigued to discover a convict ancestor in her family tree, Babette Smith decided to investigate her life and the lives of the 99 women who ...
This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper's Creek. The original ...
HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to ...
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the ...
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of ...
In 1803 the convict escapee William Buckley, an Englishman and former British soldier, abandoned the life he knew and without contact with Europeans lived for ...
Dublin-born Lawrence Frayne was convicted at a young age for stealing a rope and sentenced to seven years' transportation to New South Wales, where he ...
