
The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022
Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace
April 2023
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022

Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything
Anthony Cooper, with Thorsten Perl
April 2023

Everywhen
Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy
February 2023
Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000
December 2022
The first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, Born of Fire and Ash is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999–2000 East Timor crisis and Australia’s response to it.

Suburban Noir: Crime and mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney
October 2022
Peter Doyle – author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us – draws from forensic records and the private papers of detective Brian Doyle (the most famous cop of the day and Peter’s uncle), to explore the criminal underbelly of mid-20th century Sydney.

Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000
December 2022
The first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, Born of Fire and Ash is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999–2000 East Timor crisis and Australia’s response to it.
No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law

No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law
Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell, George Williams
May 2006

Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials
Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams
March 2015
Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

A Charter of Rights for Australia
George Williams, Daniel Reynolds
August 2017
Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means
there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in
Australia – even though these laws are standard in the rest of
the developed world. So what does this mean for the rights of
Australian citizens?

Running the City
August 2017
Leading Australian curator Felicity Fenner profiles activity-based and
pop-up contemporary public art projects from Australia and around the
globe. Running the City explores art projects that bring together diverse
disciplines and cultures – including running, cycling, architecture, and
guerilla gardening.

The Desire for Change, 2004-2007
Edited by Tom Frame
January 2021
The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power until 3 December 2007 making John Howard the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister. This book is the final in a four-volume series examining the four Howard Governments.

Ethics Under Fire
Edited by Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo
September 2017
Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can't ignore.

On Ops
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'

British India, White Australia
Dr Kama Maclean
March 2020
*Highly Commended — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*

Hand & Mind
Edited by Ainslie Murray, Xing Ruan
December 2018
In Hand &
Mind Through
dialogues, interviews, creative reflections and essays, Hand & Mind brings together projects and critical writing to provide a fascinating insight
into the study of architecture.

Parragirls
Edited by Lily Hibberd, with Bonney Djuric
September 2019
Parragirls
' Parragirls Parragirls is able to deliver something that is at once rigorous in its detailed presentation of a clear model, and accessible through its compelling narrative.' — Eugenia Flynn, The Saturday Paper

Hand & Mind
Edited by Ainslie Murray, Xing Ruan
December 2018
In Hand &
Mind Through
dialogues, interviews, creative reflections and essays, Hand & Mind brings together projects and critical writing to provide a fascinating insight
into the study of architecture.

Bruce Rickard
Edited by Julie Cracknell, Peter Lonergan, Sam Rickard
December 2018
Bruce
Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth
century. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years and
he produced some of the most notable and recognisable houses of the period.

Collecting for the Nation
Edited by Jennifer Sanders
August 2017
From ceramic cockatoos and hand-painted china to splendid silverware and historic paintings, Collecting for the Nation illustrates a broad sweep of Australian history and culture through the stories of the artworks in The Australiana Fund's unique collection.

Running the City
August 2017
Leading Australian curator Felicity Fenner profiles activity-based and
pop-up contemporary public art projects from Australia and around the
globe. Running the City explores art projects that bring together diverse
disciplines and cultures – including running, cycling, architecture, and
guerilla gardening.

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.

The Idea of Art
August 2015
Curator Anthony Bond began
building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important
artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor
and Doris Salcedo.

The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022
Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace
April 2023
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022

Everywhen
Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy
February 2023
Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000
December 2022
The first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, Born of Fire and Ash is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999–2000 East Timor crisis and Australia’s response to it.

Lessons from History
Edited by Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
July 2022
Leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.

Sneaky Little Revolutions
edited by Nadia Wheatley
April 2022
From her wild bohemian years on Hydra to her radical feminist writings, Charmian Clift is a larger-than-life personality of Australian literature.

Tongerlongeter
August 2021
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wounding a further 176.

British India, White Australia
Dr Kama Maclean
March 2020
*Highly Commended — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*

Bedlam at Botany Bay
Dr James Dunk
June 2019
*Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards 2020*

Eureka
Hugh Dolan, illustrated by Dave Dye
March 2019
This
graphic book brings to life the struggles of daily life on the goldfields and
the powerful events of the Eureka stockade.

Serving our Country
Edited by Joan Beaumont, Allison Cadzow
April 2018
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces.

Darling Mother, Darling Son
Edith M Ziegler, introduction by Megan Martin
May 2017
'However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ...' – Leslie Walford

Hidden in Plain View
Mr Paul Irish
May 2017
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788.

The Honest History Book
Edited by David Stephens, Alison Broinowski
April 2017
In Australia's rush to commemorate all
things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar
of Australia's history and identity?

Reg Saunders
Hugh Dolan, Adrian Threlfall
April 2015
View the Reg Saunders teaching resource on the Reading Australia website

Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II
Dr Lachlan Grant
November 2014
Focusing on the day-to-day interactions between soldiers on the ground and the people and cultures they encountered, this book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.

The Europeans in Australia
Alan Atkinson
September 2014
This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I.

The Australia Day Regatta
Christine Cheater, Jennifer Debenham
February 2014
The Australia Day Regatta has been held on Sydney Harbour every year since 1837.
Believed to be the oldest continuously held annual regatta in the world, it has
grown and flourished and today involves close to 700 vessels − from ocean-going
yachts to small sailing dinghies − and thousands of participants.