The Commonwealth of Australia
by British Association for the a Australia
Believing in Australia
by Professor of History Hilary M Carey, Professor
A Trip to Hawaii ... with Descriptive Introduction. New Edition.
by Professor Charles Warren Stoddard
Memories of Australian History at school often evoke images of hot classrooms and well-meaning teachers struggling to spin out a thin tale of colonial administration and land settlement, in which nothing 'really happened'.All that is changing. The history that is taught and written in universities today is less concerned with grand events and structured narratives, and more interested in reconstructing people's lives. This approach opens up new questions for discussion in Australian History and...
At Home in Fiji. with Map and Illustrations. New Edition
by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming
A Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia, 1897-8 (Classic Reprint)
by Timothy Augustine Coghlan
The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse...
On the Offensive (OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUST SE CONFLICT, #8)
by Ashley Ekins and Ian McNeill
This eighth volume in the "Official History" series tells the story of the Australian Army in Vietnam in the most tumultuous period of the Vietnam War. The book shows how the Australian Task Force coped with the difficulties and dangers of operating with two infantry battalions and limited resources against an elusive and aggressive enemy. It describes the construction of the controversial barrier minefield and the consequences and failure of this project. It also covers the pivotal Tet Offensiv...
The year 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original Australian Tunnel Rats arrival in Vietnam, one year after Australian troops were withdrawn from active duty in Afghanistan. Although on the face of it these two conflicts, separated by half a century, could scarcely be more different, for Sappers - army engineers - it has been very familiar territory. For a start, as in Vietnam, Sappers in Afghanistan have suffered a proportionately greater death toll than any other Army unit, with 20 per cen...
This is the first comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of government over the first century of its life. Based on the author's detailed archival research and 30 years' experience writing about central government in Australia, it provides an understanding of both the history and the working of the institution. Patrick Weller has written a detailed history, as well as a politics primer. It is book packed with political insights and anecdotes, with lively portraits of o...
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories (Great Australian Stories)
by Bill Marsh
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
New introduction on why good policy matters and why books debating big policy ideas matter. Abbott argues the battle of ideas helps ensure political parties come to power knowing who they are, what they stand for, what the impact of the policies might be and how they can best be implemented. Good policy is 1% headline and 99% implementation u a lesson Labor has failed to heed. Liberal Party leader and parliamentary pugilist Tony Abbott offers a frank analysis of the way forward for the Liberal P...