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A Trip to the Dominions - The Scientific Event That Changed Australia by Lynette Russell (Editor)
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Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Studies
On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three s ...Show more
Australian Religious Thought Six Explorations by Wayne Hudson
37.95 AUD
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Category: Religion | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between religious thought and social reform in Australia. It argues that religious thought can be found in many intellectuals in Australia, both in the religiously inclined and in those who were not conventionally religious. Drawing together existi ...Show more
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 by Bruce Bennett
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Category: Australian Writing & Language | Series: Australian Literary Studies
Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender explore the lives and creative work of Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain since the early nineteenth century. They contest the notion of Australia as an 'import culture' and show Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further afi ...Show more
How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: An Anthology of Writing on Aboriginal Art 1980-2006 by Ian W. McLean
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Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Studies in Art and Art Theory Ser.
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring contributions by 96 authors from the art world, it argues for a re-evaluation of Aboriginal Art's critical intervention into co ...Show more
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Australian Cultural Studies
This title gathers together some of Indigenous Australia's best critical thinkers to examine the issues facing their communities today. It covers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted social studies media and organisations.The rights of Australia's indigenous people are at a crossroads. Over ...Show more
The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy by Vince Scappatura
37.95 AUD
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Australian Studies
Australian society and its leaders generally take for granted the importance and value of this nations relationship with the United States. The US is commonly thought of as the worlds great purveyor of liberal values and the rule of law, and as a powerful friend indispensable to Australian security. In ...Show more
Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
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Category: Craft | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a way we have not seen since pre-industrial times. In Australia, practices of repair, invention, building, improvising and crafting, that take place in ...Show more
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History by Darrell Lewis
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Category: Australian History | Series: Australian studies
The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in W ...Show more
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