Us Mob: History, Culture, Struggle: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia by Mudrooroo
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Leading writer, activist and commentator Mudrooroo crosses the cultural divide to speak to all Australians about his people's past, their place in the present and their hopes and aspirations for the future. Keenly felt, vigorously argued and compelling in their sweep, these provocative essays range the ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians by Muecke S & S
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: New Horizons S.
In the 18th century, as European colonization proceeded apace, one continent remained to be discovered, the mythical Terra Australis incognita. This, the largest island-continent, had been inhabited for over 60,000 years by the Aborigines, who were described by the first explorers as the 'miserablest pe ...Show more
Gangland Australia: Urban Criminals and Their Connections by James Morton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"Gangland Australia" is a book about organized crime and the professional criminals who have recklessly cut a swathe through Australia over the last 200 years. It is a book with accounts of murder, robbery, standover, prostitution, drugs, great escapes, revenge, betrayal, corruption, police, lawyers, do ...Show more
Heartsick for Country by Blaze Kwaymullina, Tjalaminu Mia, and Sally Morgan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feeling heartsick because of the harm that is being inflicted on country even today, ...Show more
Life & Adventures Of William Buckley by John Morgan; Tim Flannery (ed.)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke no ...Show more
Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy by Stephen Muecke
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge, but treated by whites rather as culture or history? There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms ...Show more
Longest Decade by MEGALOGENIS George
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Before the 1990s, the decades in Australia used to run to a predictable script of bust, boom, and bust. They'd commence with the economy in the pits, assume the personality of the good times that followed, and conclude with another collapse. Conveniently, this cycle took about ten years to play out. Pa ...Show more
ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more
Speaking from the Heart by Sally Morgan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and or to their family or community.
Ned Kelly: A Short Life by Ian Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Every nation has a lovable bandit/rebel/folk hero in the mould of Robin Hood and Rob Roy. But Ned Kelly is an uncomfortable hero - he killed policemen, robbed banks, stole horses from squatters...But he became a champion of the rural underclass and an enemy of arrogant officialdom. Ned Kelly was of Iris ...Show more
The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition by Martin Edmond
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 was one of the best equipped expeditions of the Victorian era but it was doomed to a terrible fate. Much has been written about the leaders of this expedition but what do we know of other members of the party? In The Supply Party, Edmond takes the reader on a physi ...Show more