New South imprint: 178 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...
Come the Revolution
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspapermen, union leaders, revolutionaries, crooked cops, corrupt politicians, spies, dictators, and ordinary working people, this is the memoir of political journalist Alex Mitchell, who worked on several newspapers around Australia before landing in Fleet Street...
by Mathew Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988,...
On Ops
Lessons and Challenges for the Australian Army since East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian...
Australian Gypsies
Their Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots...
Trading Places
The Airport Economist's Guide to International Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can’t you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, Tim Harcourt—also known as the Airport Economist—takes you around the globe, talking to businesses,...
Evatt
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party...
The Way They Were
The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation of Ramsey’s best work, granting ample access to Australia’s national parliament...
by Hannah Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph. Now there are more than one million university students in Australia. After World War II, Australian universities became less elite but more important, growing from six small institutions educating less...
The Ascent to Power 1996
The Howard Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In the first of four volumes on the Howard Government's nearly 12 years in office, The Ascent to Power covers the 1996 election and the practical challenges of the Coalition's first year in power, including its handling of the Port Arthur massacre, relationships with the Australian Public Service,...
by Tom Frame
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day. Does Anzac Day honor those who died pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict? Do the rituals...
Ethics Under Fire
Challenges for the Australian Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army...
Refugees
Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's policies are not
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stopping the boats, blocking queue-jumpers, and proving who is a “real” refugee have become national obsessions. Misconceptions about refugees and asylum-seekers seem to be increasing, and governments and media continue to exploit anxieties in the community. This clear-headed book rejects spin...
Escape Artist
The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break – an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes.An...