No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia by Frank Brennan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1967, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of altering two aspects of the Constitution that related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Although these seemed like small amendments, they provided an impetus for real change - from terra nullius to land rights, and from assimilation t ...Show more
Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the critically acclaimed Desert Divers and Exterminate All the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts and unearthed the cruelty of colonialism. Now he has done the same for Australia. Lindqvist travels through the south of the country, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and ...Show more
Radical Newcastle by Nancy Cushing
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalized young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen in the context of other moments of resistance such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, Rothbury miners' lockout in 1929 an ...Show more
What Do We Want?: A Political History of Aboriginal Land Rights in New South Wales by Heidi Norman
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Today the network of land councils in New South Wales is the largest Aboriginal representative body in the country with more than a billion dollars in land assets, a near billion-dollar investment fund, and more than 115 local Aboriginal land councils - but it wasn't always so ...The passage of land rig ...Show more
First Fleet Surgeon: The Voyage of Arthur Bowes Smyth by David Hill
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of t ...Show more
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Queensland ... by Mark Bahnisch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Everyone has heard the cliches about Queensland politics: Queensland is 'different'. It's the 'Deep North'. Its state elections exemplify Pineapple Party Time. But what if those cliches are in fact looking more like the state of affairs in the rest of Australia? Does the Sunshine State represent the new ...Show more
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
Post-God Nation by Roy Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At the time of Federation 98% of Australians identified themselves as Christians. Now only 5% regularly go to Church. The reasons for this steep decline in faith are broad - they include the failings of the Church itself; its relentless negativity and hypocrisy as well as misunderstandings about what be ...Show more
Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials by Andrew Lynch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more anti-terrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. The first laws were often introduced in great haste and were stunning in scope and number. The latest laws are similarl ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson; Ian McFarlane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-rangin ...Show more
Under the Colony's Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839-1869 by CASTRIQUE SUE
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more