Australian Bird Names - Origins and Meanings by Ian Fraser; Jeannie Gray
54.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Origins & Meanings 2nd ed.
This Second Edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the many-and-varied common names and full scientific ...Show more
Underwater Sydney by Inke Falkner; John Turnbull
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Admired all over the world and loved by locals for its natural beauty, Sydney Harbour is enjoyed by thousands of people every day. But rarely do we look below the surface where, beneath all the hustle and bustle, lively communities go about their business. With underwater forests and gardens, hundreds o ...Show more
Gun Control: What Australia Got Right (and Wrong) by Tom Frame
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996 - when a gunman murdered 35 people and injured another 23 at a popular Tasmanian tourist attraction - John Howard, a conservative prime minister who had been in office for just six weeks, surprised his colleagues and startled the nation by mo ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
The Devil's Grip: A true story of shame, sheep and shotguns by Neal Drinnan
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
'An unforgettable, courageous and deeply tragic local story which manages to become a universal tale. No mean feat.' Gregory Day Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks, a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies - Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian d ...Show more
A River with a City Problem by Margaret Cook
32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followe ...Show more
Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment by Clare O'Neil & Tim Watts
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues - a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia's economic ascendancy - in the decad ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
The Golden Country: Australia's Changing Identity by Tim Watts
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australia's Changing Identity
John Howard was the unlikely reformer of Australian society. He loosened migration laws, massively boosting the population and making it less white. Simultaneously, his divisive rhetoric about national identity--a legacy of White Australia--hamstrung discussion of these huge changes. As the MP for a div ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more