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9781742237596

Influential historian Henry Reynolds returns with this new edition of Forgotten War, which questions the conspicuous absence of the frontier wars from our official military history and public memory.

9781742237473

Lessons from History

Edited by Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe

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.

9781742237343

An Uncommon Hangman

The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, the longest-serving executioner for the colony of NSW.

9781742237312

Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

9781742236957

The Secret of Emu Field

Elizabeth Tynan

Liz Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder, reveals the little-known story of Emu Field, the first British atomic test site in South Australia, pre-dating Maralinga by three years.

9781742237442

Sneaky Little Revolutions

edited by Nadia Wheatley

From her wild bohemian years on Hydra to her radical feminist writings, Charmian Clift is a larger-than-life personality of Australian literature.

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by James Cotton

Symbols of Australia

Edited by Richard White, Melissa Harper

Dear Prime Minister

Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians.

9781742237398

Edith Blake’s War

Krista Vane-Tempest

Australia & the Pacific

9781742236780

Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

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.

9781742237091

French Connection

Alexis Bergantz

Winner, NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize

9781742236810

True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

9781742237404

Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Megan Davis, George Williams

Essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement.

Ruth Balint, Julie Kalman

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The Bible in Australia

WINNER of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

9781742236216

British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire

Dr Kama Maclean

*Highly Commended — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*

9781742236179

Bedlam at Botany Bay

*Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards 2020*

Hugh Dolan, illustrated by Dave Dye

This graphic book brings to life the struggles of daily life on the goldfields and the powerful events of the Eureka stockade.

Back from the Brink, 1997-2001

Edited by Tom Frame

The years 1997–2001 were eventful ones for the Howard Government. This second volume of the Howard Government series explores these tumultuous years.

Serving our Country

Edited by Joan Beaumont, Allison Cadzow

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.

The Ascent to Power, 1996

Edited by Tom Frame

The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in what Paul Kelly calls the 'foundational year'.

9781742235363

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and the Rhodesian Problem, 1961–1972

Edited by Matthew Jordan, series edited by David Lee

A compilation of Australian governmental memos, documents and meeting minutes relating to the status of Southern Rhodesia

Hidden in Plain View

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.

Darling Mother, Darling Son

Edith M Ziegler, introduction by Megan Martin

'However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ...' – Leslie Walford

Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld.

Edited by Tom Frame

Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force.

White Butterflies (Updated edition)

Colin Mcphedran

A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic.

The Honest History Book

Edited by David Stephens, Alison Broinowski

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?

Ms Colleen McCullough

Several years before she died, Colleen McCullough wrote this unusual and stimulating work of non-fiction exploring a subject close to her heart – the role of water in human history, and how best to harness its power to ensure Australia's future.

Up Came a Squatter

Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black's rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life.

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