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
Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Cobb & Co by Sam Everingham
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest gold rush. He soon realised where the real money was to be made, and established a coach company that would eventually carry his name into every household in the land: Cobb Co. But Freema ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
Australia Calling: The ABC Radio Australia Story by Phil Kafcaloudes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
ABC Radio Australia has been a constant voice in international broadcasting for more than 80 years.Australia Calling: The ABC Radio Australia Story is an account of Australia's international radio service from its earliest days as an anti-propaganda service in the opening days of WWII. It tracks the ser ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022 by Brendan McCaffrie (Editor); Michelle Grattan (Editor); Chris Wallace (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022Australia has rarely endured as many difficulties as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic-dominated Morrison Government’s term of office from its surprise 2019 election win to the 2022 poll. How did government per ...Show more
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by ARROW, MICHELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for wome ...Show more
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation by Ross McMullin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Aust ...Show more
The Home Front: The never-ending war within our veterans by Patrick Lindsay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Forty-one Australian soldiers died in action over 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan; in that time more than 1400 veterans have taken their own lives. Veterans today are chronically over-represented when it comes to PTSD, depression, homelessness and suicide. Australians rightfully pause on Anzac Day e ...Show more
Persecution of George Pell by Keith Windschuttle
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
This book is the story of how the highest levels of the police, judiciary and politics in Australia, plus victim lobby groups, compensation lawyers, and journalists for major news media, found common cause to persecute, convict and jail an innocent man. They had been persuaded by fanciful accusations t ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1 by John Fahey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time. 'This story has never been told, because in the secret world we could not, and cannot, share what we do all day, even with family and loved ones.' - from the foreword by Rachel Noble, Dir ...Show more