Northside by Warren Kirk
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the photographer behind Westography and Suburbia. The past doesn't disappear. It leaves its traces everywhere. - Christos Tsiolkas From West Brunswick to Reservoir, Fitzroy to Hadfield, Warren Kirk turns his keen eye upon the streets, buildings, and inhabitants of Melbourne's northern suburbs, wh ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
Gemstones in Victoria by Bill Birch, Dermot Henry
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Victoria is often seen as the forgotten state when it comes to gem minerals. The history of gems in Victoria is inextricably linked to the discovery of gold in 1851. In 1854, George Milner Stephen publicised for the first time, the discovery of gems in Victoria. These included blue and white sapphires f ...Show more
The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe & AIATSIS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A revised edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book will update this successful and widely used introduction to contemporary Indigenous Australia. Written from an Indigenous viewpoint, The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a competitively priced and accessible resource that offers a glimpse of the histo ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brot ...Show more
Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia’s Most Notorious Bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Part way through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening him: ‘he would not ask me to stand he would shoot me first like a dog’. Those few fateful words have echoed through Australian history as the cause of much bloodshed and violence. They marked Anthon ...Show more
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement--the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day--courage, ma ...Show more
Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia by Ian Hoskins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Rivers have long run in the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivers have shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens of thousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are also guardians of culture, a means of transpor ...Show more
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field did a terrifying black mist speed across the la ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the ...Show more