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Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up

Mavis Kerinaiua, Laura Rademaker

Tiwi Story showcases stories of resilience, creativity and survival as told by the Tiwi people.

The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War

This is the remarkable war story of six ordinary Australian soldiers: the Chipilly Six.

9781742238111

Everything You Need to Know about the Voice

Megan Davis, George Williams

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.

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

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.

Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

John Blaxland, Clare Birgin

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

Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

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.

The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022

Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace

Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

Three generations of women explore the trailblazing Whitlam era.

9781742237497

Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.

9781742237329

Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

9781742235929

Sydney: A Biography

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.

9781742237794

Sydney Harbour: A History, new edition

Award-winning historian Ian Hoskins revisits Sydney’s glittering harbour and the people who inhabited and shaped it in this updated edition.

9781742236230

Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000

Craig Stockings

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.

9781742237527

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

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.

9781742237770

Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

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

9781742237787

Darwin Spitfires

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.

9781742237152

Australia’s China Odyssey

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.

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.

9781742237312

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

9781742237343

An Uncommon Hangman

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

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: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

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

Australia & the Pacific

9781742237398

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

Krista Vane-Tempest

Dear Prime Minister

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

9781742236780

Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin – a contested history

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.

9781742236810

True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

9781742237091

French Connection

Alexis Bergantz

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

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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Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement