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During the Second World War the Australian Government interned thousands of Australian residents who were considered a security risk. Under Suspicion: Internment in Australia explores some of these stories. The essays in Under Suspicion explore some of these stories, which reveal the sometimes disturbing nature of how the nation reacts on the home front when its existence is threatened by war.

Australia's Highway One is a part of the life experience for most Australians. It's our great coastal highway, tracing out our coastline. Very many of us live on or near it and travel on some part of it every day. Pacific Highway, Princes Highway, Bruce Highway, A1, M1; it goes by these...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Brisbane Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Perth Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

In the late 1970s, 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing persecution. Their arrival presented a challenge to politicians, but the way the Fraser government handled it, and the resettlement of tens of thousands more Indochinese refugees, marked a turning point in Australia's immigration...

"In offering to the public an account of Expeditions of Discovery in Australia, undertaken in the years 1840-1, and completed in July of the latter year, some apology may be deemed necessary for this narrative not having sooner appeared, or perhaps even for its being now published at all."

The late 1920s marked an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country. Drawn from an extensive search in archives from Australia...

The whole Allied front was barely four miles, swept by a terrible inferno of shells. The air was filled with the white woolly clouds that the Anzac men—old soldiers now—knew meant a hail of lead. Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account...

Australia’s development, from the most unpromising of beginnings as a British prison in 1788 to the prosperous liberal democracy of the present is as remarkable as is its success as a country of large-scale immigration. Since 1942 it has been a loyal ally of the United States and has demonstrated...

It has often been said that humanity’s history is a fabrication, littered with lies and omissions, but this has never been conclusively proven, until now. What has been recently found in Australia is unequivocal in rewriting convenient versions of ancient history and the genesis of modern humans.                ...

The giant continent-nation of Australia, with its English-speaking population, is currently attracting a great number of visitors from North America and Great Britain. In this newly-revised, freshly-researched guide, author Lee Mylne, who is based in Brisbane (the third most populous city in Australia),...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Adelaide Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Cairns & Great Barrier Reef Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Northern Territories Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting...