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by David Tuffley
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Aussie Slang is a performance art practiced everyday by ordinary Australians. To the outsider it can be difficult to understand. Yet once you enter into the mind-set, the language makes perfect sense. This eBook aims to give people a window into Australian life.At home, as a child in the East...
The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea
Being the Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of Their Old Charts
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
I. In Quest of the Spice Islands
II. Voyages to the Spice Islands and Discovery of Papua
III. The Spice Islands in Ribero's Map
IV. Villalobos' Expedition and Further Discoveries in Papua
V. The First Map of New...
Kiwi
The Australian brand that brought a shine to the world
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
You probably have a tin of shoe polish tucked under the laundry sink bearing the little bird logo that has been in homes around the globe for over a century. Founded in Melbourne by William Ramsay in 1906, Kiwi is one of the most iconic and enduring international brands ever to have come out of Australia.
One...
by Rob Mundle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation.
More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid-to-late 19th century...
The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to...
Capital
Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-28
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos.
In 1901 Melbourne was a small city. Then the founders of the Australian Commonwealth decided it was the best place to house the new...
by Gavin Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Lion and Kangaroo is one of Australias great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nations coming-of-age.With intelligence, wisdom and wit, Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australias first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that...
Big Coal
Australia's Dirtiest Habit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry’s influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded...
The Mad Marathon
The Story of the 2013 Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to make sense of it all? With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of campaigns. He dissects Labor's self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition's cheap and nasty Broadband Lite, and the...
True Girt
The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
**First there was Girt. Now comes ...
True Girt**
In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt transports us to the Australian frontier.
This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous...
by Clare Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014.
The Eureka Stockade.
It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and...
by Jill Blee
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed...
An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942
The bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian...
by Jonathan King
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A gripping account of the worst disasters to hit Australia since Federation
From bushfires to cyclones; sinking ships; train and plane crashes; mine explosions and bridge collapses; the Port Arthur massacre and the Bali bombings; Australia has suffered numerous terrible tragedies.
Bestselling...
In the Shadow of Gallipoli
The Hidden Story of Australia in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The 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. This bookcorrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that...