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by MIchael Bogle
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015

Shooters, Trappers & Poisoners explores the rapidly receding world of Australian doggers and rabbiters as they wage war on two of Australia’s most familiar feral animals, the dingo, its mixed-breed descendants and the feral rabbit. Beginning in the 19th century and continuing to the present, two...
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by Inara Strungs
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Long ago, in 1918, a small traditional bakery was built in the inner city suburb of Waterloo, Sydney. This was well before the tower blocks, the ice addicts, the trendy new apartments and the fashionable restaurants in Danks St.The last owners of Elma bakery were a Latvian migrant family who...
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Backseat Drivers

A road trip along the Hume Highway with some opinionated voices from Australia's history

by Craig Cormick
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018

It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is...
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The Reporting of Captain Moonlite the Loyal Bushranger

History Story in Newspaper Articles 1869 to 1880

by Trudy Toohill
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016

The Reporting of Captain Moonlite the Loyal Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1869 to 1880, which tell the story of the life and death of Andrew George Scott, and his companions in intricate detail as it was read by the nation over a century ago. These newspaper stories...
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by Daniel J. Pukstas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009

What might a two-month visit to Australia and New Zealand be like if the traveler were not distracted and overwhelmed by the spectacular scenery? In this book Dan Pukstas, a blind professor, answers this question by providing a series of humorous and insightful perspectives about the places and people...
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by Ivan Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

John Flynn is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. His achievements are stuff of legend - no other Australian has had more monuments dedicated to him than John Flynn. Flynn established a network of cottage hospitals, flying doctors, patrol padres, welfare centres and radio transmitters to create...
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Baring All Down Under

Hilarious Confessions of a Bewildered Backpacker

by Steve Deeks
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018

Desperate to escape the UK despite his strong dislike of travelling, a blindfolded Steve Deeks stabs a pen into a world map to decide where to head, ending up with Australia as his destination. He then bravely embarks on his adventure into the unknown – with hilarious consequences. Things hardly...
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Te Iwi Maori

Population Past, Present and Projected

by Ian Pool
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Te Iwi Maori presents an engrossing survey of the history of the Māori population from the earliest times to the present, concentrating particularly on the demographic impact of European colonisation. It also considers present and future population trends, many of which have major implications for...
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Taking Liberty

Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890

by Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens....
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Animals Count

How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations

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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they...
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Discover the world differently n°2

Travel with your child and open his/her mind! Brazil, Canada, Romania, Thailand, Egypt, Australia

by Cristina Rebiere
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017

Make your children discover the world differently! Are your children bored in front of the TV or with video games? What if you were to offer them another way to discover the countries and peoples of our planet? This little Kids Experience « Discover the world differently » will help you! Browse...
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Indigenous Crime and Settler Law

White Sovereignty after Empire

by Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous...
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Community Music in Oceania

Many Voices, One Horizon

by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Professor Dawn Bennett, Melissa Cain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia,...
Cover of The Good Neighbour: Volume 5, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
by Bob Breen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006. It tells the story of the deployment of Australian diplomatic, military and policing resources at a time when neighbouring governments were under pressure from political violence...
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