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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more
Anzac and Empire : George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence by John Connor
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I. The nation's longest-serving defence minister - holding the portfolio before, during and a ...Show more
Armies of Empire: The 9th Australian and 50th British Divisions in Battle 1939-1945 by Allan Converse
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Army History Series
Armies of Empire uniquely reflects upon the experience of two divisions from different armies facing similar challenges in the Second World War. The 9th Australian Division and the British 50th (Northumbrian) Division both saw long service and suffered heavy casualties, and both encountered morale, disc ...Show more
Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust by Lenore Layman (Editor); Gail Phillips (Editor)
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the disciplines of history, journalism, medicine, law and public health. It also includes first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been touched by the min ...Show more
Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians In Australian History, 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin, Robert D Linder
Category: Religion | Series: Australian History Ser.
In this major new contribution Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder tell the story of how Australian evangelical Christians responded to the decline of the British empire and to the expanding international reach of their religious mission and beliefs, of how these Christians reacted to the challenges of secu ...Show more
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Peter Dean
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The years 1944 and 1945 were pivotal in the development of Australia's approach to strategy during the Second World War and beyond. While the main battlefront of the Pacific War had moved further north, Australian air, land and sea forces continued to make a significant contribution to the Allied campai ...Show more
Australian History Series Book 7 - The Ancient World by Fiona Back
Category: Education | Series: Australian History Series
"The ancient world has been written specifically for students living in Australia studying history in Year 7. Itexplores the time between the earliest human communities and the end of the ancient period (c. 60 000 BCE-c. 650 CE). Every activity sheet has a corresponding student information page. Both ha ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
Category: Science | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Bettongs, Potoroos and the Musky Rat-Kangaroo by Randy Rose; John Seebeck; Andrew Claridge
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
Provides an extraordinary glimpse into the secretive lives of these unusual marsupials.