Central Station: True Stories of Outback Life - the Good, the Bad and the Dusty by Central Station Blog
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Meet the people who live and work on Australia's most remote cattle stations, from the Kimberley in WA to northern Queensland, as they share their stories in their own words. Have you ever wondered what it's like living hundreds of kilometres from the nearest supermarket? Or having a million-acre backya ...Show more
Grog A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like ...Show more
Bastard Boys by Sue Smith (Screenplay by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Presents the story of the fight that stopped the nation - the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. More than just a dispute over reform, it became a campaign for the hearts and minds of all Australians. Controversial, all-consuming and combative, it forced people to pick a side and fight for their be ...Show more
Adventures of a Jackeroo and Other Tales by Steve McGregor
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mountain Ash: Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests by David Lindenmayer
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years o ...Show more
This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ...in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald Sun He's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out mor ...Show more
Bush Heritage : Repairing Australia Hectare by Hectare by Sarah Martin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. Started by Bob Brown in 1991, Bush Heritage was born from an urgent mission: to protect pristine land from logging. After buying two blocks of land in Tasmania's Liffey Valley, ...Show more
Australia Visions of A Continent by Shaen Adey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia - a land of scenic splendour, vibrant cities and ancient mystery - beckons the international visitor with a myriad of attractions. Australia - Visions of a Continent captures the many facets of this intriguing country in over 120 superb photographs, providing visitors with a lasting memory of ...Show more
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Official History of ASIO 3
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world...Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operat ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Shortlisted, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1998 ..Shortlisted, Individual Category, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards 1998..Highly Commended, Human Rights Award in Arts Non-Fiction, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1998..'How i ...Show more
Australian Gulag: A Love Story by Ray Stafford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tom McKinnon, is SAS Specialist Sniper, a veteran of Afghanistan. But extreme violence and collateral damage have worn him down, so that by the time he returns to his native Broome, he cannot settle and takes his Post-traumatic Stress Disorder to a shack on a secluded Kimberley beach. There, he spends h ...Show more