TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
Under Fire: How Australia's Violent History led to Gun Control by Nick Brodie
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Category: Australiana
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an inescapable part of Australia's story and its characters. But just as guns have been a part of Australia's modern identity, ...Show more
Australia The Photographer's Eye 3rd Edition by Nick Rains
16.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
Award-winning photographer Nick Rains travels Australia with his camera, capturing the country's diverse landscapes and many moods. With this third edition, including two brand-new touring regions, outback New South Wales and north-west Tasmania. Australia The Photographer's Eye displays Rains's stunnin ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers: First Nations Classics by Samuel Wagan Watson, Tony Birch
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, 'like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime'.Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson's imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his poems pulse wi ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Australian Writing & Language | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022) by Scott Morrison
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Category: Australiana
Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a globa ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
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Category: Australiana
In 100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places, Ben Pobjie communes with the spirit world to reveal Australia's most spooky stories. From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the ...Show more
Mal Walden's Aussie Icons and Legends by Mal Walden
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Category: Australiana
Australia's favourite newsman is back. This time with Legends and Icons - those uniquely Australian stories, people and products. From a tradition of bush medicines to amazing world first medical discoveries. Walden takes us on a journey through Australian history to revive and pay tribute to those whos ...Show more
Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina
23.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land is a verse-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a ...Show more
Indigenous Australia For Dummies by Larissa Behrendt
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Foreward Stan Grant
A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous pe ...Show more
Gurawul the Whale An ancient story for our time by Max Dulumunmun Harrison
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Category: Indigenous Australians
‘When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul’s story by my grandfather Muns…in the dirt…they made me promise to go to the southern land and search for the whale dreaming. I had no idea what it meant or that it would take me 70 years to keep it.’ — Uncle Max HarrisonMore than 70 years ago, the ancient l ...Show more