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The House That Jack Built
James Colman
September 2016
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.
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The Tim Carmody Affair
Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
,
Gabrielle Appleby
,
Andrew Lynch
September 2016
When Tim Carmody was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland by Premier Campbell Newman in 2014, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months.
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Why the future is workless
Mr
Tim Dunlop
September 2016
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.
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Evatt
John Murphy
September 2016
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.
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Double Diamonds
Karl James
August 2016
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.
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Swifty
Edmund Campion
August 2016
The extraordinary story of how a devoted nun became an equally devoted campaigner for justice – as a successful criminal defence lawyer.
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City Dreamers
Graeme Davison
August 2016
I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism.
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In Other Words
Mr
Goenawan Mohamad
, translated by
Jennifer Lindsay
August 2016
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.
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The Intervention
Edited by
Rosie Scott
,
Anita Heiss
July 2016
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.
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The Europeans in Australia
Alan Atkinson
July 2016
'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
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The Europeans in Australia
Alan Atkinson
July 2016
It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all - and even-handed.
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The Worst Woman in Sydney
Leigh Straw
July 2016
Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?
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On Ops
Tom Frame
, Mr
Albert Palazzo
July 2016
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'
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Not Just For this Life
Edited by
Wendy Guest
,
Gary Gray
July 2016
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.
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How to Be a Writer
John Birmingham
June 2016
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.'
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Offshore
Madeline Gleeson
May 2016
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?
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Endeavouring Banks
Edited by Neil Chambers
May 2016
When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators who returned with unprecedented collections of artefacts, specimens and drawings, opening up a whole world of knowledge as yet undiscovered by Europeans.
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Whole Wild World
Tom Dusevic
May 2016
In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic's verve, warmth and honesty.
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Unnecessary Wars
Henry Reynolds
April 2016
'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.'
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Armenia, Australia & the Great War
Peter Stanley
,
Vicken Babkenian
April 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.
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Infectious
Frank Bowden
April 2016
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.
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Who Bombed the Hilton?
Rachel Landers
April 2016
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.
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Anzac Day Then & Now
Edited by
Tom Frame
April 2016
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day.
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Gay Sydney
Mr
Garry Wotherspoon
March 2016
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
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Damned Whores and God's Police
Anne Summers
March 2016
Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police
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Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
Ian Harris
March 2016
You can listen to Rob Kaldor interview Ian Harris for the Co-op podcast .
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Inside the Vault
Peter Rees
February 2016
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.
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William Yang
Helena Grehan
, Edward Scheer
February 2016
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.
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Ned Kelly
Hugh Dolan
February 2016
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 …
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From Victims to Suspects
Shakira Hussein
February 2016
The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart.
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The Oldest Foods on Earth
John Newton
February 2016
'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.'
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The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour and Other Sydney Firsts
Hilary Bell
, illustrated by Matthew Martin
December 2015
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.
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Eat Your History
Jacqui Newling
December 2015
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.
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Australia Remember When
Mr Bob Byrne
December 2015
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.
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Janet Laurence
Prudence Gibson
December 2015
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Numerical Street
Hilary Bell
,
Antonia Pesenti
November 2015
Age range 3 to 8 Count as you walk up Numerical Street. Every page has a numerical treat. Get your pants altered, get your keys cut, Open the book before the shops shut.
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