Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more
Every Hill Got a Story by Central Land Council
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in the heart of Australia. It is for all who want to truly understand why nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a "lifestyle choice" but a hard won right, a spiritual and cultur ...Show more
After the Blast: An Australian Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan by Garth Callendar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb att ...Show more
Warrior Elite: Australia's Special Forces - From Z Force and the SAS to the Wars of the Future by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
WARRIOR ELITE is a unique and compelling account of Australia's special forces and intelligence operations - ranging from the early special forces of World War II to the establishment and development of the SAS and Commando Regiments as the elite fighters of today, and from the Australian Security Intel ...Show more
An Economy is Not a Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia by Dennis Glover
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three ...Show more
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia by Simon Ville
$190.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more
Old Man's Story: The Last Thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie by Bill Neidjie
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Right then,' he said with a sigh, and then turned to me with a grin. 'I tell you story, eh!' Then he said something which really floored me: 'I been waiting for you. You been waiting for me.' And so began Bill Neidjie's relationship with English photographer, Mark Lang. Known as 'Old Man' in this b ...Show more
Australian Confederates by Terry Smyth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. On the notorious raider Shenandoah scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired the last shot of ...Show more
Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail by James Phelps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAIL An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s seven in just three years earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of The Killing Fields'. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death sentence. ...Show more
Waterfront: Graft, Corruption and Violence - Australia's Crime Frontier from 1788 to Now by Duncan McNab
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia's most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates. WATERFRONT is the story of the crimes, the politics, the character ...Show more