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9781742238128
Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up

Mavis Kerinaiua, Laura Rademaker

September 2023
Tiwi Story showcases stories of resilience, creativity and survival as told by the Tiwi people.
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The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War

Lucas Jordan

August 2023
This is the remarkable war story of six ordinary Australian soldiers: the Chipilly Six.
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9781742238111
Everything You Need to Know about the Voice

Megan Davis, George Williams

July 2023
Australians will soon be faced with an important choice. Will they vote Yes to change our nation’s Constitution to introduce an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice? Or will they vote No and bring the recognition process to a halt and, along with it, the aspirations of an overwhelming number of Australia’s first peoples? The stakes could not be higher.
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Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

Sally Young

June 2023
In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.
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Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

John Blaxland, Clare Birgin

May 2023
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.
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Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

May 2023
Om Dhungel was forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, eventually arriving in Australia — this traumatic upheaval brought a surprising blessing: what Om learned about life when he lost everything except life itself.
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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
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Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

April 2023
Three generations of women explore the trailblazing Whitlam era.
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9781742237497
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

Chris Wallace

February 2023
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
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9781742237329
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.
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9781742235929
Sydney: A Biography

Louis Nowra

December 2022
Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra – author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo – expands his gaze to explore the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.
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9781742237794
Sydney Harbour: A History, new edition

Ian Hoskins

December 2022
Award-winning historian Ian Hoskins revisits Sydney’s glittering harbour and the people who inhabited and shaped it in this updated edition.
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9781742236230
Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000

Craig Stockings

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.
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Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers

Meg Foster

November 2022
Not all Australian bushrangers were white men, and not all were seen in a glowing light in their own time — historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn’t fit the mould.
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9781742237770
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

November 2022
An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.
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9781742237787
Darwin Spitfires

Anthony Cooper

August 2022
It has been 80 years since the bombing of Darwin. This anniversary edition of Darwin Spitfires offers a detailed and fascinating history of this unparalleled attack.
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9781742237152
Australia’s China Odyssey

James Curran

August 2022
The story of the complex and crucial relationship between Australia and China, charting the highs and lows through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972.
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9781742237596
Forgotten War

Henry Reynolds

July 2022
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.
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9781742237473
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.
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Root & Branch

Eda Gunaydin

May 2022
Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.
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9781742237343
An Uncommon Hangman

Rachel Franks

May 2022
The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, the longest-serving executioner for the colony of NSW.
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9781742236957
The Secret of Emu Field

Elizabeth Tynan

May 2022
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.
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9781742237442
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

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.
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Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by James Cotton

February 2022
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Gudyarra

Stephen Gapps

November 2021
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Symbols of Australia

Edited by Richard White, Melissa Harper

November 2021
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Australia & the Pacific

Ian Hoskins

October 2021
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Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

Krista Vane-Tempest

October 2021
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Dear Prime Minister

Martyn Lyons

October 2021
Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians.
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Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin – a contested history

Quentin Beresford

September 2021
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Tongerlongeter

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

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.
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True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

Terri Janke

July 2021
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9781742237091
French Connection

Alexis Bergantz

July 2021
Winner, NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize
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9781742237404
Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Megan Davis, George Williams

June 2021
Essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement.
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Smuggled

Ruth Balint, Julie Kalman

May 2021
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Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

Henry Reynolds

February 2021
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