Killing for Country: A Family Story Indie Book of the Year 2024 by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
Towards Reproductive Justice by Ronli Sifris
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned Roe v Wade, declaring that the American Constitution did not protect the right to abortion. Several US states immediately banned abortion, while others were quick to enact restrictive regulation. This decision sent shoc ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
For Social Betterment Social Work Education in Australia 1900-1960 by Jane Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australia introduced professional education for social workers thirty years later than much of the developed world. It joined an international movement to set up the new profession and was helped by the well-established American and British social workers. As Australian social work education approaches ...Show more
Monument by Bonny Cassidy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Madelaine Dickie, Wayne Bergmann
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more