Aborigines & the Sport of Kings: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History by John Maynard
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Aborigines and the Sport of Kings celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history. A remarkable history considering that Australian Aboriginal peoples first contact with the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror because violent massacres and unp ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization. This is a fully updated edition (fourth edition).
ABC Grandstand's Unsung Sporting Heroes by ABC Grandstand
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
UNSUNG SPORTING HEROS is a collection of more than 30 stories of courage, sportsmanship and having a go. ABC Grandstand's broadcasters - such as Jim Maxwell, Debbie Spillane, Amanda Shalala, Peter Wilkins and Shannon Byrne - join the winners of the inaugural sports writing short story competition to bri ...Show more
A Timeline of Australian Food by Jan O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A Timeline of Australian Food takes readers on a tasty and sometimes surprising culinary journey through 150 years of Australian food. Lavishly illustrated, this tasty book looks at what we've eaten, how we've shopped, and how we've produced and prepared our food, decade by decade, through depression, w ...Show more
A Portrait of Australia: Outback by Australian Geographic
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: A\Portrait of Australia Ser.
More of a space than a place, the outback is where big blue skies meet a red-dirt horizon. If the bush is where we've developed our country sense of community outside the major cities, where the heck then is the outback? The beguiling but often unsatisfactory answer is that it's nowhere but everywhere: ...Show more
A Super History: How Australia's $1 Trillion+ Superannuation Industry Was Made by Christine St Anne
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
"A SUPER HISTORY fills a big gap in Australia's financial history. Christine St Anne has done a great job of talking to the pioneers for their inside story of the birth and evolution of the superannuation system. But, more importantly, this tale of the passions and politics behind the establishment of i ...Show more
A History of Australian Schooling by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A social history of school education in Australia, from dame schools and one teacher classrooms in the bush, to the growth of private schools under public funding in recent years.
A Nation In The Making: Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era by Alasdair MacGregor
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Bus Plus Publishing Ser.
The output of the two largest photographic studio's in Australia in the late 19th century were bought & placed in storage. It became known as the Tyrell Collection. Largely unseen ever-since it is now stored at the Powerhouse museum and has been made available to Australian Geographic. This unique c ...Show more
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Girl's Best Friend by David Darcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From Tassie to the Top End, through the outback towns of Coober Pedy and Tennant Creek, to the coastal retreats of Fremantle, Cairns and Byron Bay and taking in the capital cities along the way, author- photographer David Darcy has traversed the length and breadth of the continent in search of women who ...Show more
A Concise Companion to Aboriginal History by Malcolm Prentis
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historic ...Show more
A Doctor's Dream by Buddhi Lokuge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Dr Buddhi Lokuge embarked on a $5 million program to eradicate an infectious and debilitating disease and realised the entire program was unworkable. By listening to community elders, he discovers a better way forward, and new hope for children and their communities. An inspiring David and Goliath ...Show more