Great Australian Urban Legends by Eamon Evans
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is stuffed full of stories that need to be taken with a big spoon of salt. Stories that we all know are silly, but that we also just can't help sharing. In Great Australian Urban Legends, Eamon Evans presents you with myths, misconceptions and bare-faced lies about real people and real places ...Show more
Aussie Aussie Aussie by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
If you think you know all about Australia's heroes (and villains), think again. In Aussie Aussie Aussie, Ben Pobjie burrows beneath the mythology to provide an intimate look at the Australians who helped make our nation great - as well as the ones who stopped us from being as great as we could have been ...Show more
Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | 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
Making Australia Right by James Allan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
What you will find is a variety of treatments on some of the most important issues facing this country. True, the overall tone is not one of bubbling optimism. How could it be with the current state of the Liberal Party in this country? But it does constitute, with the variety of views and approaches of ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The bestselling author of The Australian Moment asks the most important question confronting the country right now - how do we maintain our winning streak? Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's ...Show more
A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and cont ...Show more
Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Australiana
This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her home on the south-west coast of Australia in 1876. Using eyewitness accounts and other historical documents of the time, the ...Show more
Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread by Vries Susannah De
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Joice Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the d ...Show more