Australia category: 2401 books
Culture Crisis
Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference...
The Man Who Saved Smithy
Fighter pilot, pioneer aviator, hero: the life of Sir Gordon Taylor GC, MC
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford...
Over the Top
A digger's story of the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Australia's diggers didn't go 'over the top' for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion - extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men.
Henry George Hartnett, known as 'Harry', joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action...
by Bain Attwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967
Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive...
Widening Minds
The University of New South Wales and the Education of Australia's Defence Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.In a candid exploration of the highs and lows of the longest...
Long Road
Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Helping neighbors and partners stabilize their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force. The Long Road analyzes the successes and failures of ADF's ‘train, advise, assist' missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville,...
The Censor's Library
Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, this enlightening and enthralling discussion is based on Nicole Moore’s discovery of the secret "censor’s library" in the National Archives. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, the book...
by Albert Moran, Errol Vieth
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional...
by Justin Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Nannygoat Hill stands in the Wolli Valley, about 10km from Sydney’s central business district. One of the few surviving remnants of the City’s natural environment, it supports a wide range of native plants and animals and is a much-loved local ‘beauty spot’. In 1967, Brambles Industrial Services...
Southwest Passage
The Yanks in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival...
by Chris Pash
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
At the end of the 1970s, one young reporter bears witness to the final days of Australia’s whaling industry. Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, this incisive account tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end....
by Morris Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Arthur Hill Griffith (1862-1946) was a rare species: a noteworthy Minister of the Crown in an Australian state parliament. He has immortality of a kind in the Riverina city named after him and since 1997 in the name Griffith-Hack, giving a firm of patent attorneys an ancestry stretching back to the...
by Shawn Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Melbourne is Australia’s second largest city and the capital of the state of Victoria. The city is often mentioned as Australia’s finest and offers numerous galleries, parks, museums and theatres alongside beaches, cafes and shopping. Many people use the city as a base from which to explore the...
Brisbane & Cairns Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
The sunshine state of Queensland, located in the northeast of Australia is one of the country’s best tourist destinations. Queensland’s largest city is the state capital of Brisbane and together with the neighbouring Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast has beautiful beaches, constant sunshine and some...