Point Nepean by McCONCHIE Peter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Containing a number of his inspiring photographs Peter McConchie has managed to show the beauty of the Victorian Peninsula town of Point Nepean.
Contemporary Aboriginal Art - A Guide to the Rebirth of an Ancient Culture by Susan McCulloch
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: very good
An illustrated guide to Australia's 20 major art-producing communities, prefaced by a description of each region and a history of the development of Aboriginal art since the mid-1970s. The book explores the cultural wellspring the art originates from and whether "traditional" art still exists.
SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA by Mcclelland & Smyth
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A critical approach to understanding social policy for advocacy and actionSocial Policy in Australia introduces students to the concept of social policy and its influence on the nature of our society and the lives of individual Australians. It examines the purpose and meaning of social policy, how it ha ...Show more
GIRT BY SEA AUSTRALIA THE REFUGEES AND T by MACCALLUM MUNGO
$11.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965 by MCCALMAN JANET
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia by Alan Mayne
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch 'beyond the black stump'. These essays from around the country build inland Australia into our national history, crisscrossing both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors are Lorina Barker, Amanda Barry, Badger Bates, Peter Bis ...Show more
Hell's Heroes by Roger Maynard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Hell's Heroes is the story of the POW camp that never was - so dubbed by one old soldier because the atrocities that occurred there went largely unreported at the time. Nestled by the riverside in the west-coast Japanese town of Naoetsu, camp 4-B was the prison for some 300 Australian soldiers, collecti ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism by John Maynard
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s, which culminated in the famous tent embassy in 1972. Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the Australi ...Show more
Closing Hell's Gates - Death of a convict station by MAXWELL-STEWART Hami
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for "state-assisted" escape. Five terrified witnesses--their hands and feet bound--were forced to watch as the chained convicts seized Constable George Rex and drowned him in the tannin-staine ...Show more