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Class Wars["Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia"] by Tony Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
From Roadside to Recovery The Story of the Victorian State Accident Commision by Peter Bragge & Russell Gruen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly. By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This extraordinary achievement is the product of sustaine ...Show more
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 by Bruce Bennett
$39.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Australian Literary Studies
Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender explore the lives and creative work of Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain since the early nineteenth century. They contest the notion of Australia as an 'import culture' and show Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further afi ...Show more
Gerald Murnane - Another World in This One by Anthony Uhlmann (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Anot ...Show more
How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: An Anthology of Writing on Aboriginal Art 1980-2006 by Ian W. McLean
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian Studies in Art and Art Theory Ser.
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring contributions by 96 authors from the art world, it argues for a re-evaluation of Aboriginal Art's critical intervention into co ...Show more
Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World by Judith Ryan
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies
Beginning in the last third of the twentieth century, Australian literary and cultural studies underwent a profound transformation to become an important testing ground of new ideas and theories. How do Australian cultural products project a sense of the nation today? How do Australian writers, artists ...Show more
Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction
$45.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gail Jones is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country.This colle ...Show more
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Eleanor Dark (1901-85) is one of Australia's most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark's contributi ...Show more
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian Cultural Studies
This title gathers together some of Indigenous Australia's best critical thinkers to examine the issues facing their communities today. It covers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted social studies media and organisations.The rights of Australia's indigenous people are at a crossroads. Over ...Show more
The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy by Vince Scappatura
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian Studies
Australian society and its leaders generally take for granted the importance and value of this nations relationship with the United States. The US is commonly thought of as the worlds great purveyor of liberal values and the rule of law, and as a powerful friend indispensable to Australian security. In ...Show more
Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a way we have not seen since pre-industrial times. In Australia, practices of repair, invention, building, improvising and crafting, that take place in ...Show more
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more