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Anne Scrimgeour
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their…
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Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens
What does the first poetry in Australia, written by the Judge who declared the land terra nullius, tell us about the singular nature of colonialism here?
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Brenda Niall
The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation’s most eminent historians.
Henry Reynolds
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles.
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Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.
John Blaxland, Clare Birgin
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation's efforts to reveal the secrets of others.
Jane Carey
Taking to the Field is the first comprehensive history of Australian women in science from the colonial period to contemporary times.
Marlee Silva
My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast, Marlee Silva. The voices of…
Christine Helliwell
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's…
Stuart Macintyre
The fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia’s First Nations’ peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold…
Wayne Quilliam
A contemporary photography book that celebrates and shares stories of First peoples across the continent.
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Meg Foster
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of…
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Lucy Frost
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking…
Frank Bongiorno
A landmark book - the first full political history of Australia
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Shauna Bostock
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history.
Robert Kenny
Traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria’s Wimmera region. The story of Pepper’s…
James Boyce
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year
'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential…
Alistair Paton
Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilarious history of the men and women who dedicated their lives to understanding Australia’s native animals.
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Joan Beaumont
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression.
Anna Clark
A bold and expansive history that traces the changing and contested project of Australia’s national story. You will think about this country differently after reading this book.
Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia’s greatest military leaders.
Stuart Kells
The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of a site’s rich history and the efforts to preserve it. This is an uplifting tale of community activism.
Sally Young
Reveals who owned Australia’s newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, this book explains how Australia’s…
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The second edition of the bestselling Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.
Susan Lawrence,Peter Davies
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of…
R. M. W. Dixon
An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language…
James Dunk
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out…
Robert Hughes
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag…
Billy Griffiths
‘People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds…
David Hunt
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia. In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia’s past from megafauna to Macquarie, the cock-ups and…
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Bill Gammage
Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.
