The Many Lives of Barry Humphries (PB): A Treasury of Reminisces by Rowan Dean
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Category: Australian Biography
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces th ...Show more
Abandoned New South Wales by Shane Thoms
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Category: Australiana
Discarded architectural legacies, the abandoned factories, homes and public places of New South Wales, are small footnotes of history. Here, the past and present clash to reveal a handful of small vignettes that whisper the secrets of those who came to live and dwell. Here are clues that speak of the fo ...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
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
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Category: Indigenous Australians
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
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Category: Australiana
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
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Category: Australiana
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Cry Me a River by POSSELT Steve
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Category: Australiana
The account of one man's journey to the heart of Australia's water crisis. Steve Posselt put everything on the line to paddle or drag a kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide down the full length of the Darling and lower Murray so he could see first hand what is happening to Australia's rivers. Along the way h ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the Hangmen and the Underbelly of Colonial Australia by Michael Adams
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Category: Australian History
A fresh, unique take on Ned Kelly - a fascinating, entertaining and kaleidoscopic look at the society that shaped him in life and death When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kel ...Show more
A Wild History - Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis
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Category: Australian History
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for thousand ...Show more