Independents' Day: The inside story of the community independents and volunteers who changed Australian politics forever by Brook Turner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The full story of the independent candidates and community volunteers stormed previously safe Liberal seats at the 2022 federal election and created a revolution in Australian politics. As Australia headed into the 2022 election, the media focussed on the usual two-horse race. They ran photos of Scott ...Show more
Between the Last Oasis and the next Mirage: Writings on Australia by Guy Rundle
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010s From the coal blockade frontline of the Liverpool Plains to Hobart's Cat and Fiddle arcade, from being on the road with last ...Show more
Australia's Boldest Experiment : War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A major new account of the 1940s in Australia. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia - rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape - could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world. Now, in The Superpower Transformation, he turns that idea into a practic ...Show more
Rottnest Island by Brian Simmonds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Situated off the cost of Perth in Western Australia, Rottnest Island has been a popular local vacation destination for many years. This book by award-winning artist Brian Simmonds features 70 beautiful, original watercolors and oils, as well as poetry and prose from well-known Australian writers.
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our outback truckies that criss-cross our nation - across deser ...Show more
Lighter Than Air: Australian Ballooning History by Helen Rogers
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Fledgling balloonists in nineteenth century Australia realised that their aerial endeavours added little to their pockets, or to science. Re-inventing themselves as showmen and women, they performed daring acrobatics from trapezes and parachutes, touring towns and cities all over the country.Along the w ...Show more
Perth Then and Now by Richard Offen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Then and Now Ser.
Archival photographs of Perth have been carefully matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city. Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks ...Show more
The Outback Wrangler by Matt Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
" Any animal, anywhere, any time.' u Matt Wright Wildlife expert and chopper pilot Matt Wright was born for a life of action and adventure. Raised in the wilds of Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, he would catch turtles before school for show and tell or gather deadly brown snakes just for fun. Ma ...Show more
Stepping off: Rewilding and Belonging to the South-West by Thomas M. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
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The River by Brian Simmonds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings Australia's waterways to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches. Over ninety beautiful illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known writers such as John Kinsella, T A G Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley. The pe ...Show more
Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by Deborah Burrows
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
From the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of de ...Show more