The Spy Catchers: The Official History of Asio, 1949--1963 by David Horner
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian HistoryFor the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of I ...Show more
Making of Australia by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
First Fleet by Rob Mundle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The First Fleet - the Creation of a Nation Bestselling maritime biographer Rob Mundle is back on the ocean with a blockbuster for Christmas. Rob's FIRST FLEET tells the extraordinary story of the eighteenth century convoy of eleven ships that left England on 13 May 1787 for the 'lands beyond the seas'. ...Show more
The Menzies Era by John Howard
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing .. ...Show more
The Search for HMAS Sydney : An Australian Story by Ted Graham et al
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was Sydney had come under fire from the German raider HSK Kormoran, which also sank. After numerous unsuccessful searches from the mi ...Show more
Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This updated edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an authoritative introduction to Indigenous Australia. It includes real-life case studies and covers history, culture, arts, sport, languages, population, health, participation in education and the workforce, governance, resistance and reconcil ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
Ancient Australia Unearthed by Alethea Kinsela
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Ancient Australia Unearthed draws on archaeology to map 50,000 years of Australia's ancient past. It traces the evidence that is etched into the skin of this country to unearth the rich and complex history of this unique island continent. This text collates and presents existing research and available r ...Show more
Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
CONVICTED rapist Bilal Skaf would not shut-up. "Give me a cigarette," he screamed. For 15 minutes he repeated the three words, his demands driving the other prisoners mad. Just give him a cigarette chief," yelled one of the inmates, his plea bouncing of the cold concrete walls. "Shut the rapist up," scr ...Show more
He Who Must Be Obeid by Linton/McClymont, Kate Besser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Meet Australia's most corrupt politician whose brazen misdeeds were said to be on a scale "unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps".From the shadows Obeid ran the state as his fiefdom, making and unmaking premiers. Along the way he pocketed tens of millions of dollars following corrupt deals.This exp ...Show more
The Hard Sell: The Tricks and Techniques of Political Advertising by Dee Madigan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In The Hard Sell, creative director Dee Madigan uses her trademark humour and down-to-earth approach to unveil the world of political advertising. Drawing on real-life stories from her own recent Federal and State campaigns, she gives us fascinating industry insight into: * How political ads are designe ...Show more
Gatekeepers, The Lessons from Prime Ministers Chiefs of Staff by R.A.W./Tiernan, Anne Rhodes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Gatekeepers examines the position of chief of staff to the Australian Prime Minister from the perspective of key individuals who have held it. Exploring the support needs of Australian political leaders, it traces the forces that have shaped the growth and specialisation of the Prime Ministers' Offi ...Show more