Everything You Need to Know about the Voice by Megan Davis, George Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from t ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Melbourne's Great Outdoors - Parks, Waterways and Trails: Where to go and what to Do by John Stevens (Editor); Australia Guides Staff
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
For over a decade this best selling title is the bible to Melbourne's parks and trails. More than 55,000 copies sold and still in high demand. The only comprehensive 'where to go, what to do' guide of the outdoors has now been completely updated to include the all recent park upgrades and trail extensi ...Show more
Family Business - The Simmie Family of Simmie & Co and Harpsdale by Andrew J. Kilsby
$89.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
This fascinating history is a narrative not just of an entrepreneurial family with all of its rich past and personalities, especially that of Jock Simmie, but also of two very different family businesses. Three brothers came home from World War One. Two had served at Gallipoli, all three had been wounde ...Show more
From the Ground Up: How a Community with a Vision and a Principal with a Purpose Created a Thriving State School by Steven Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Taking Albert Park College from forced closure to Australia's School of the Year In 2006, Albert Park College, a public secondary school in inner-city Melbourne, was closed after a dramatic loss in confidence caused enrolments to plummet. Devastated yet determined parents rallied and convinced the educ ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66 by Peter Brune
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Between 1946 and 1966 large numbers of displaced persons (DPs) came to Australia to escape the horrors of war-torn Europe. Peter Brune’s latest work had its genesis in more than 40 interviews he conducted with DPs in the period 2001—2022. He spoke to migrants from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Cz ...Show more
Saltwater Hearts - 150 Years of St Mary Star of the Sea College Wollongong by Jeff McGill
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
The history of one of Australia's oldest girls' schools, published for their 150th anniversary.
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Revealing Secrets an Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence & the Advent of Cyber by Clare Birgin, John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation's efforts to reveal the secrets of others. What is Australian signals intelligence? Why do we have a national signals intelligence agency and why are our three armed services involved? What do they all do and why is it c ...Show more