Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The story of Tom Kruse by Kristin Weidenbach
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The Birdsville Track is one of the best-known - and loneliest - tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom was the mailman, battling the searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns. He made the run every fortnight and was a lifeline to the isolated settlements and stations along the way, deliverin ...Show more
Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again - Rebuilding Our Common Wealth by Mark Swivel
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian Politics
This is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the Senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's about making communities worth living in and buildi ...Show more
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition: Fully Revised & Expanded, A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
52.25 AUD
55.00 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition is the essential follow-up to Australia's landmark travel guide to Indigenous Australia, Welcome to Country. In this extensively updated edition, Marcia Langton offers a full range of Indigenous-owned or -operated tourism experiences across Australia, incl ...Show more
Mates - The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson by Gregory Bryan
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was developed in his writing. Lawson authority Gregory Bryan has written a fascinating dual biography of Henry Lawson and his great mate and fellow writer, Jim Gordon (who wrote as Jim Grahame).
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
47.50 AUD
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Category: Australiana
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Biography | Reading Level: near fine
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's always been important to reflect on every part of ...Show more
Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams
31.45 AUD
32.95 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal reserve and her family at fifteen to work as a domestic servant. Apart from a bit of pocket money, Lesley never sees her wages - they are kept 'safe' for her and for countless others just like her. She is taught not to question her life, until desp ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton
23.99 AUD
25.00 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A h ...Show more
Outback Highways-Special Ed-100 years: 100 year commemorative edition by Beadell Len
37.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
LEN BEADELL OAM was often called the last of the true Australian explorers. As a surveyor and road builder he worked all over the outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. This special commemorative edition of Outback Highways is being released to mark the centenary of Len Beadell’s birth. He was a ...Show more
Outback Survival by Bob Cooper
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
'a guidebook that might just save your life' HERALD SUN Bob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 30 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences of living with traditional Aboriginal communities, instruct ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics by Katharine Murphy
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Category: Australiana | Series: Quarterly Essay
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more