Australian Non-Fiction 2015

Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott
Battleground chronicles the paradox of the Abbott prime ministership: steadfast loyalty when pragmatism was required; social values at odds with community attitudes; stubbornness when tactics and strategy were essential. All would...
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World War One: A History in 100 Stories
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Worst Words: A compendium of contemporary cant, gibberish and jargon
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Journey to Horseshoe Bend
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Australia and the Monarchy
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today, an invitation to meet a member of the royal...
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Every Hill Got A Story
Nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a ‘lifestyle choice' but a hard-won right, a spiritual and cultural duty, a constant battle, a source of happiness and opportunity and the meaning of life all at the same time.
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Australia’s Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future
The bestselling author of The Australian Moment asks the most important question confronting the country right now - how do we maintain our winning streak?
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Creating Cities
In 2008, Marcus Westbury returned to his hometown of Newcastle, Australia and found more than 150 empty buildings lining its two main streets. Three years later the world's largest travel publisher, Lonely Planet, named it one of...
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Fair Food: Stories from a Movement Changing the World
Australia's food system is more than just broken - it's killing us. Now is the time to act, to make a difference - to change the world. The groundbreaking Fair Food: Inspiring Stories of Ethical Living tells the new story of food...
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Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing
Craig Munro began his blue-pencil adventures at the University of Queensland Press in 1971. Over the next thirty years, he became friend, counsellor, and occasionally foil to some of the country's leading authors.
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The Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change
Climate change has arrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate change science or politics. Rather it is an...
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Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles
An essential work to be read by all non-Indigenous scholars and activists seeking solidarity with Indigenous struggles across the world
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Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment
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Gudinski: The godfather of Australian rock'n'roll
The real story of the man behind the bands - and a backstage pass to forty years of Australian rock music.
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The Money Men: Australias Twelve Most Notable Treasurers
Offers the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and...
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The Sex Myth
From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life.
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Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power
A riveting study of the politics of power Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic...
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The Changi Book
The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it.
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Time and Space: The Tactics That Shaped Australian Rules - and the Players and Coaches Who Mastered Them
An accomplished book about the genius and ingenuity of the game's greats (and the forgotten) and how they have shaped the game through the innovation of tactics.
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The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1, Indigenous and Colonial Australia
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Australia examines the first European encounters with Australia and its Indigenous people, and the subsequent colonisation of the land by the British in the late eighteenth century, providing...
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The Savage Shore: Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia
The search for the great south land began in ancient times and was a matter of colourful myth and cartographical fantasy until the Dutch East India Company started sending ships in the early seventeenth century. Graham Seal tells...
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The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 2, The Commonwealth of Australia
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Australia covers the period 1901 to the present day. It begins with the first day of the twentieth century, which saw the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Old Man’s Story: The Last Thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie
Right then,' he said with a sigh, and then turned to me with a grin. 'I tell you story, eh!' Then he said something which really floored me: 'I been waiting for you. You been waiting for me.' And so began Bill Neidjie's...
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Blockbuster! Fergus Hume And The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab
The story of the crime novel that became a global publishing phenomenon --Cover.
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No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia
What lessons have been learned from the 1967 referendum? In 1967, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of altering two aspects of the Constitution that related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Although these...
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Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family’s Long Road to Justice
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Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. This book...
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Joh for PM: The inside story of an extraordinary political drama
In 1987, the premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched an audacious bid to enter federal politics. But what really happened behind the scenes? Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for Canberra: The Inside Story...
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Unholy Fury: Whitlam and Nixon at War
In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon, clashed over the end of the Vietnam war and the shape of a new Asia. A relationship that had endured the...
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Post-God Nation: How Religion Fell Off The Radar in Australia - and What Might be Done To Get It Back On
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She’s Having a Laugh: 25 of Australia’s Funniest Women on Life, Love and Comedy
In She's Having a Laugh, 25 of the funniest women in Australia write about life, love and laughter. Their stories are irreverent, intimate and - most of all - often hilarious. They reflect on why they became comedians, celebrate...
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The Gillard Project: My Thousand Days of Despair and Hope
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Watson’s Pier
This is the story of Josh FunderAEs great grandfather, Stanley Watson, who for a long time was thought to be the last man to leave Gallipoli (he was the second-last). It is told in narrative style, with a mix of fact and fiction,...
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Van Diemen’s Land: An Aboriginal History
The history of Aborigines in Van DiemenAEs Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation and against almost insurmountable odds for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. This broad-ranging book is a...
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Mothermorphosis: Australian storytellers write about becoming a mother
In Mothermorphosis, some of Australia's most talented writers and storytellers share their own experiences of motherhood. In telling their stories they articulate the complex internal conflicts, the exhilaration and the absurdity...
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The Coal Face: Penguin Special
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Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special
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Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959-89
For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against its 3 million Jews. In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community...
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Memoirs of an Anzac: A first-hand account by an AIF officer in the First World War
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Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life - On Caring for the Elderly
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Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought
This book sheds light on what drought and climate change mean to rural Australians - in their words.
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Fighting Hard: The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League
Fighting Hard tells a history of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. As both a welfare and activist body, the League can be seen as the ‘mother' of all Aboriginal Victorian...
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Passing Clouds: A winemaker’s journey
Electrician, Graeme Leith joined Melbourne's theatre collective at Carton's famously innovative Pram Factory Theatre and said 'let there be light'. And there was; Graham Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and many others produced...
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City Limits: Why Australia’s cities are broken and how we can fix them
Our bush heritage helped to define our identity, but today Australia is a nation of cities. A higher proportion of Australians live in cities than almost any other country, and most of our national wealth is generated in them. For...
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The Story of Australia’s People: Volume 1
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The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd
The story of Tasmania's most controversial forestry giant, the corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down. Gunns' collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider...
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Hole’s Live Through This
Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an...
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Australia Under Surveillance
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom...
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Inside Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials
Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more anti-terrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. The first laws were often introduced in...
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Mayday: How warring egos forced Qantas off course
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The Australian Moment: How we were made for these times
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Mateship: A Very Australian History
Covering more than 200 years of white-settler history, Mateship demonstrates the richness and paradoxes of the Antipodean version of fraternity, and how everyone - from the early convicts to our most recent prime ministers, on...
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Before I Sleep: My Life Fighting Crime and Corruption
In the early 1970s, Queensland was a haven for crooks from both sides of the law. It was into this hothouse that Ray Whitrod was controversially appointed as police commissioner in 1970. Just six years later he resigned from the...
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