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
Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky...When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tra ...Show more
Australian History in Seven Questions by John Hirst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australia's history: Why did Aborigines not take up farming? How did a pen ...Show more
Menzies at War by Anne Henderson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Rob ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and fa ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Luck of the Irish by Babette Smith
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts who arrived in Australia the mid-1800s, uncovering a longlasting influence of the Irish convicts on our national character.
Stop the Presses: How Greed, Ambition, Incompetence and the Internet Are Wrecking Fairfax by Ben Hills
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How has the Fairfax empire arrived at its current shabby, sorry state - and what does its demise mean for the future of independent journalism? A decade ago Fairfax Media was one of the most powerful institutions in the country; staffed by gun reporters, funded by its 'rivers of gold', offering up high ...Show more
Work Completed, Canning: A Comprehensive History of the Canning Stock Route 1906-2010 by Phil Bianchi
$85.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of Alfred W. Canning and the development and subsequent use of the 1800 kilometre long Canning Stock Route from Halls Creek to Wiluna is told in this new volume.
Darwin by Tess Lea
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Cities Series
Darwin is a survivor, you have to give it that. Razed to the ground four times in its short history, it has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To know Darwin, to k ...Show more
Dirty Secrets : Our ASIO files by Meredith Burgmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby, Peter Cundall, Gary Foley and Anne Su ...Show more
Milat by Clive Small
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A true insider's story of the Backpacker Murders from the detective who arrested Ivan Milat.