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Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of ...
This insightful and accessible new biography of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second prime minister, shines fresh light on one of the nation's most significant ...
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples?
Soon we will all ...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody ...
Living with drought is one of the biggest
issues of our times.
Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty
years global warming will ...
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it.
In 1838, eleven convicts ...
Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means
there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in
Australia - even though ...
Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to ...
During the late eighteenth century, the newly invented 'English' piano was not only a symbol of cultivation and modernity, but also reinforced music as lifes ...
'The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough Whitlam
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out ...
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. This ...
In late 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops book the first steps in creating a clandestine church organisation to ...
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of ...
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia ...
If you think you know all about Australia's heroes (and villains), think again. In AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, Ben Pobjie burrows beneath the mythology to ...
