Voices of us: The independents' movement transforming Australian democracy by Tim Dunlop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian politics is changing.The two-party system is disappearing. The balance of power is shifting, and while it feels fragile now, we may just be on the precipice of a transformative era for democracy in Australia.On 21 May 2022, Australia voted, not just for change in individual seats, but a compl ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of d ...Show more
Northside by Warren Kirk
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the photographer behind Westography and Suburbia. The past doesn't disappear. It leaves its traces everywhere. - Christos Tsiolkas From West Brunswick to Reservoir, Fitzroy to Hadfield, Warren Kirk turns his keen eye upon the streets, buildings, and inhabitants of Melbourne's northern suburbs, wh ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
Gemstones in Victoria by Bill Birch, Dermot Henry
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Victoria is often seen as the forgotten state when it comes to gem minerals. The history of gems in Victoria is inextricably linked to the discovery of gold in 1851. In 1854, George Milner Stephen publicised for the first time, the discovery of gems in Victoria. These included blue and white sapphires f ...Show more
The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe & AIATSIS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A revised edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book will update this successful and widely used introduction to contemporary Indigenous Australia. Written from an Indigenous viewpoint, The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a competitively priced and accessible resource that offers a glimpse of the histo ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia’s Most Notorious Bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Part way through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening him: ‘he would not ask me to stand he would shoot me first like a dog’. Those few fateful words have echoed through Australian history as the cause of much bloodshed and violence. They marked Anthon ...Show more
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement--the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day--courage, ma ...Show more
Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia by Ian Hoskins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Rivers have long run in the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivers have shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens of thousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are also guardians of culture, a means of transpor ...Show more