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The man, 'Thunderbolt', walks on the plains, in the distance with his chestnut-coloured horse. He wears his cowboy hat and holds his horse with a long rein behind him. You can see him walking into the horizon, with his head bowed, and a beautiful sunset in the background. He is The Australian Bushranger!
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Spending her life in Queensland's North West, Beryl has experienced rural floods, fires, droughts and other difficulties that face Australia's inland. When she married Stuart Hunter and moved to life "on the land", she found she had stepped on a pathway that included raising six children, teaching school lessons, assisting with station jobs and serving on Local Government. It was, a life that gave her some understanding of conditions that would have...
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John Forrest DD, the exuberant scholar/priest recruited in Ireland in 1859 to set up the Catholic St John's College at Sydney University, found life in colonial NSW much to his liking. However, it soon became clear that divisions within the Church, even more than a shortage of candidates for degrees, would put paid to his high hopes for the college. Relations between the colony's English archbishops and Irish ecclesiastics were often poisonous, and...
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The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers.
"We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures."
March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed to Greece in a desperate attempt to stop the Wehrmacht overrunning the country. Most of them overseas for the first time in their lives,...
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In the pages of this book the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia is diligently chronicled within the wider context of the place of ethnic Russians in a dominantly anglophone society: that of what was at first a British colony and later became an independent state. It begins with the first contact of Russian naval ships with the Australian continent in the early nineteenth century and progresses through to the establishment of the...
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This early work by G. P. Cuttriss was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Some day cold and formal histories will record the deeds and performances of the Australian soldiery; but it is not to them that we shall turn for an illumination of his true character. It is to stories such as these which follow, of his daily life, of his psychology, of his personality, that we...
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"Anahera Rawiri left New Zealand at twenty-one, fleeing small-town poverty and the ghosts of her childhood with no plans to look back. But eight years later, she returns, seeking familiarity as respite from the shattered remains of her new life. And despite the changes brought on by a bump in tourism--the shiny new welcome sign at the town line and a decidedly less shiny new police presence--Golden Cove appears much as it ever was: a small settlement...
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A comprehensive narrative history of building and design styles in Australia, from traditional Aboriginal gunyahs, to the local interpretations of northern hemisphere trends, to the sustainable, climate sensitive and high-tech constructions of the 21st century.
From First Nations gunyahs and First Fleet huts to 21st century eco-pavilions and skyscrapers, Davina Jackson surveys the evolution of architecture in Australia.
Dr. Jackson explores how...
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"Fake news that grew from a rejected defence strategy" The mythical "Brisbane Line" grew from a defence strategy which was rejected by the Australian War Cabinet in February 1942. Somehow politician Eddie Ward became aware of this rejected defence strategy. In October 1942 he claimed that the previous Government was prepared "to abandon an important part of northern Australia without firing a shot." General Douglas MacArthur added to the fire by labelling...
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Two women stepped from the steamship Orient onto Australian soil on a hot December day in 1879. Beatrice Beauchamp epitomises the younger middle-class English woman settler unused to the unpleasant. Yet, she combats tragedy, and meets challenge and difference with a level of equanimity not commonly expected from one with a genteel upbringing. We share her despair and her fears as from the first day she must call on a personal strength and resolve...
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At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing to do with research and was joint in name only: Australians were hired as cooks and janitors but the first...
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For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against its 3 million Jews. In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community contributed significantly to the international protest movement, which eventually triumphed over Moscow's tyranny and led to the modern Exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel and other countries. Lipski and Rutland make this largely unknown...
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Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania. 1. Pride of the Crayfish Fleet. Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron. THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years old. By whatever system of temporal measurement crayfish use, it is a very old man. In a few weeks its tail will be sliced into the white discs restaurateurs like...
95) Australia - A New More Inclusive History: Highlighting Neglected and Forgotten Stories From Our Past
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I write this new more inclusive history of Australia because it fills a gap in what we have not included and still continue to omit in Australia's history.
There are many aspects of Australian multiculturalism that are not included in general Australian history books. Aspects such as Aboriginal history, peoples, language, arts, heroes and leaders, outlaws were all missing and needed to be included.
Further, it has been my great pleasure to meet many...
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Living alone in the Blue Mountains, baby-boomer Kate Ward is, estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong?
She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek, the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It's here that she must come to terms with a history that's far greater than her own personal past.
While All the Lives We've Lived takes us back to relive the fifties, sixties and seventies, it's Kate's willingness to confront the truth...
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Why Australia has gone to war nine times in a century, and how its political and defence force leaders have handled the greatest challenge a nation can face.
'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why Australia has made the decision to go to war-over and over again.' Professor Peter Stanley, UNSW Canberra
Committing the nation to war is the gravest decision its leaders can make. “The War Game” examines why and how Australia went...
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The epic story of Australia's Aboriginal people, as told through astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient oral histories, and the largest and oldest art galleries on earth. Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners, and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes, and goannas nestled in the...
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In 1755, the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake and the resulting tsunamis, and by fire. Perhaps 90,000 people died and 85% of buildings were shattered, including the Royal Ribeiro Palace, home to the archives of all Portuguese exploration in and around the East Indies, including the voyages of Vasco da Gama. All records were lost. Did the Portuguese send voyages of exploration, secretly, across the treaty line...
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On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven...