From the author of the influential The Australian Merino comes the shocking true story of the decline and fall of the Australian wool empire a tale that features a brace of Australian characters, political skulduggery and betrayal on a massive scale. Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of Australia's biggest business disaster.
From the bestselling author of 'Murders that Shocked Australia' and 'Crimes that Shocked Australia', Ian Ferguson presents the third title in this fascinating series - 'Gangland Crimes that Shocked Australia'. Following the lives of underworld figures like Tony Mokbel, Carl Williams and the Moran family, this gripping true crime book will have you enthralled with every gritty truth and ruthless fact.
The War at Home: Volume IV
by John Connor, Peter Stanley, Peter G. Yule, and Jeffrey Grey
The War at Home interprets the experience of the Australian people during the Great War in Australia itself, in the politics of war, its economic and social effects, and in the experience of war; what is conventionally called social history. It seeks to show that the war affected many aspects of Australians livesand that peoples experience of 191418 included more than just the war. It also addresses the impact of the war on Australias culture and artistic responses to the war. This volume draw...
Pacific Island Legends Teacher's Guide
by Bo Flood, William Flood, and Beret E Strong
Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1882-3, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)
by Royal Colonial Institute
The Pacific War Atlas, 1941-45
In the Wake of the Beagle
Strange as it may seem, the long wake of the tiny HMS Beagle stretches from the nineteenth century into the future of our globe. Charles Darwin spent only three months in Australia, but Australasia and the Pacific contributed to his evolutionary thinking in a variety of ways. One hundred and fifty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species the internationally acclaimed authors of In the Wake of the Beagle provide new insights into the world of collecting, surveying and cross-cultura...
The New Zealand Family from 1840
by D Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats
A definitive demographic history of the New Zealand family since 1840, this book is not merely a collection of statistics but interprets the changing story of the family and its makeup, its members and its impact at a time when opinions on this ancient institution range from nostalgia to shock to puzzlement. Using detailed and groundbreaking research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the nineteenth century to the post-war Baby Boom, Bust, Blip and Deficit, t...