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The House That Jack Built

This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of our cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built.

The Tim Carmody Affair

Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Gabrielle Appleby, Andrew Lynch

When Tim Carmody was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland by Premier Campbell Newman in 2014, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months.

Why the future is workless

Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing.

Bush Heritage Australia

With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions.

John Murphy's Evatt: A life 'Bert' Evatt remains a polarising figure – still considered by many in Labor as the man who 'split the party' and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous.

I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism.

Mr Goenawan Mohamad, translated by Jennifer Lindsay

Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia's foremost literary figures and public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays, from 1968 to 2014, demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mythology, politics, history and Indonesian life.

Double Diamonds

During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese.

The extraordinary story of how a devoted nun became an equally devoted campaigner for justice – as a successful criminal defence lawyer.

Not Just For this Life

Edited by Wendy Guest, Gary Gray

Not Just For This Life Not Just For This Life also includes a foreword by Graham Freudenberg and short introductions by Laurie Oakes, Anita Heiss, Geraldine Doogue, Don Watson, Patricia Hewitt, Nick Whitlam and Tim Soutphommasane where they tell their stories of the period following Gough's death and their experiences with Gough.

Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo

No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, 'On Ops'

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

The Intervention

Edited by Rosie Scott, Anita Heiss

In compelling fiction, memoir, essays, poetry and communiqués, the dramatic story of the Intervention and the despair, anguish and anger of the First Nations people of the Territory comes alive.

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all - and even-handed.

How to Be a Writer

John Birmingham

'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.'

Madeline Gleeson

What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?

Whole Wild World

In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic's verve, warmth and honesty.

Unnecessary Wars

'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.'

Armenia, Australia & the Great War

Peter Stanley, Vicken Babkenian

Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

Anzac Day Then & Now

Edited by Tom Frame

Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day.

Who Bombed the Hilton?

I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world.

A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever.

Mr Garry Wotherspoon

Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

You can listen to Rob Kaldor interview Ian Harris for the Co-op podcast .

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Damned Whores and God's Police

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police

Inside the Vault

Celebrating the history and art of Australian coinage for the first time, Inside the Vault Inside the Vault includes never-before-seen design sketches and images of key Australian coins along with stunning images of important events and people in the history of Australian coinage.

Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer

Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney's theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of 'belonging' in multicultural Australia.

We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, but we've never seen him in full colour like this before …

The Oldest Foods on Earth

'This is a book about Australian food, not the foods that European Australians cooked from ingredients they brought with them, but the flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples for over 50,000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing it.'

From Victims to Suspects

Shakira Hussein

The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart.

Eat Your History

Jacqui Newling

Handwritten recipes passed through the generations, tales of goats running wild in colonial gardens and early settlers' experimentation with native foods … Eat Your History dishes up stories and recipes from Australian kitchens and dining tables from 1788 to the 1950s.

The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour and Other Sydney Firsts

Hilary Bell, illustrated by Matthew Martin

Age range 6–9 years This is a story of Sydney In order of who did what first: The incidents, places and people, All illustrated and versed.

Prudence Gibson

Law in Perspective: Ethics, critical thinking and research 3rd edition

Michael Head, Scott Mann, Ingrid Matthews

This expanded new edition of Law in Perspective focuses on a range of powerful critical thinking tools drawn from logic, science, ethics, and political and social theory.

Australia Remember When

The best of Bob Byrne's hit Facebook page and much more, Australia Remember When is a bumper book that shows us bits of Australia we've forgotten, local identities and landmarks we loved and reminds us that the best parts of Australia haven't changed.