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The Bible in Australia: A cultural history updated edition

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

Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

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

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

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.

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.

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?

White Butterflies (Updated edition)

Colin Mcphedran

A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic.

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.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

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

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 …

The National Tertiary Education Union

John Michael O'Brien

Minding Her Own Business

Catherine Bishop

A history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small – and sometimes surprising – enterprises.

Paul Davey

Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics.

Hugh Dolan, Adrian Threlfall

View the Reg Saunders teaching resource on the Reading Australia website

Van Diemen's Land

Mr Murray Johnson, Mr Ian McFarlane

Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.

Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II

Dr Lachlan Grant

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.

Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography

Carolyn Holbrook

Raise a glass for an Anzac. Run for an Anzac. Camp under the stars for an Anzac. Is there anything Australians won't do to keep the Anzac legend at the centre of our national story?

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

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.

Kings Cross: A biography

Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.

In the shadow of Gallipoli: The hidden story of Australia in WWI

Robert Bollard

Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the Shadow of Gallipoli

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Andrew Tink

Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles

Kristyn Harman

The Sportsmen of Changi

Kevin Blackburn

The Sportsmen of Changi tells the story everyone forgot – of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.

A Swindler's Progress

Kirsten McKenzie

Turning Points in Australian History

Edited by Martin Crotty, David Roberts

Anzacs and Ireland

Jeff Kildea