University Of New South Wales Press: 180 books
Not Just For This Life
Gough Whitlam Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book includes condolences from politicians of all political...
by Rachel Landers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world. What really went on? Were the police corrupt? Did the conspiracy theorists believe what...
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...
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 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...
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...
Tim Carmody Affair
Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australia's history. Chaos ensued. The Tim Carmody...
Shadow Men
The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Australian military history is full of heroes – big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences, like Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. There is no question that these famous figures of the Australian Army are important, but their story is not the only story....
Europeans in Australia
Volume Two: Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan AtkinsonThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement...
Europeans in Australia
Volume One: The Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the...
Divas
Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The incredible story of singing teacher extraordinaire Mathilde Marchesi who trained more international opera stars than anyone before or since.Who was Mathilde Marchesi? How did she become a byword internationally for vocal excellence and operatic success? What was her formula? And how did she produce...
by Amanda Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A foreigner's criticism provides the impetus for Amanda Webster to embark on a long-intended search for two former school friends – Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. As a child, Webster supposed Mission kids were well-cared for orphans, however growing...