Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language by Amanda Laugesen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bugger, rooted, bloody oath...What is it about Australians and swearing? We've got an international reputation for using bad language (Where the bloody hell are ya?) and letting rip with a choice swear word or two has long been a very Aussie thing to do. From the defiant curses of the convicts and bullo ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is indeed made up of many peoples, and together their story is one of high drama, courage and resilience. When the first Europeans crossed the world to settle the vast southern continent that became known as Australia, it was almost unknown. Over time it revealed itself to be a land of reward, ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Black, White and Exempt - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives under Exemption by Lucinda Aberdeen; Jennifer Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eye ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization. This is a fully updated edition (fourth edition).
Last Horse Standing by Michael Keenan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
An amazing true story of courage and survival in the outback by the bestselling author of The Horses Too Are Gone.In 1971 bushman Jack Camp went mustering wild cattle - 'cleanskins' - in a vast and isolated stretch of the Kimberley coast. The potential profit would be huge - but so were the risks. It wa ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more
Breaking the Sheep's Back: The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry (Prize Winner PM's shortlist 2012) by Charles Massy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of the events that led to Australia's biggest industry disaster. Once a great nation-building icon, the wool business today is but a third of its size when Australia 'rode on the sheep's back'. Compared to the more recent Australian Wheat Board scandal, 40 t ...Show more
The Last Pearling Lugger by Mark Dodd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard ...Show more
A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and cont ...Show more
The Making of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Filled with stories from regular Australians about life since World War Two and woven throughout with William's own anecdotes and observations, The Making of Modern Australia pieces together the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the last fifty years to offer a national picture of our past and present. ...Show more