The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Author: Peter Grose
The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mateship, determination and improvisation - the dark side of the story lingers ... |
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The Unfinished Revolution
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Eureka Stockade - the Unfinished Revolution ...The Eureka Stockade was Australia's answer to the Boston Tea Party, to the French people's storming of the Bastille. It was the moment when the diggers sense of outraged jus ... |
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Author: Watkin Tench & Tim Flannery
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with ... |
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Author: Maxine McKew & McKew Maxine
At the 2007 federal election former journalist Maxine McKew won a spectacular victory against John Howard and wrote herself into Australian political history as only the second candidate to have ever defeated a sitting p ... |
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Dumbing Down Democracy
Author: Lindsay Tanner
'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are r ... |
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Author: Bob Katter & Bob Katter Jnr
"In 1988, Queensland politician Bob Katter Jnr was, at short notice, called upon to officiate and entertain the King and Queen of Spain. At dinner the three discussed Australian white settlement and our forebears, prompt ... |
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Author: Patrick Lindsay
In 1942 a small band of young Australian soldiers overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve Australia's freedom along the Kokoda Track. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolis ... |
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Author: Thomas Keneally
In this widely acclaimed volume, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, ... |
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The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry
Author: Charles Massy
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of Australia's biggest business disaster. It involves government complicity, and it is a political scandal that reaches into the offices of Cabinet ministers and prime minist ... |
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Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
Author: Lucy Frost
In the early 19th century crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, settling in the crowded and damp tenements of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Orphan girls, single mothers, women with feckless hus ... |
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The Japanese on the Kokoda Track
Author: Craig Collie & Hajime Marutani
"We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back." Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous sp ... |
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The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
Author: Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial arch ... |
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Author: Troy Bramston
Today, despite being in government, Labor is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term and tanking in the opinion polls (the lowest primary vote in 25 years of Newspoll), how did it come to this so so ... |
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The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song
Author: Dennis O'Keeffe
Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, ... |
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A History
Author: Melissa Bellanta
From the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the blue humour of Stiffy and Mo, from the Beaconsfield miners to The Sentimental Bloke, Australia has often been said to possess a 'larrikin streak'. Today, being a larrikin has po ... |
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Australia's Participation in World War II
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Author: Jim Haynes
World War II was the most defining moment in Australia's history. More than a million Australians served in campaigns against Germany and Italy in Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, and against ... |
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The Australian War
Author: Paul Ham
This superb illustrated edition of the award-winning Vietnam: The Australian War brings together for the first time some of the most memorable, shocking and rare images of the war with the the award-winning text. Above a ... |
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The Real Story of the 2010 Election
Author: Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy picked a hell of an election to cover: changes of leaders on both sides of politics, Australia's first woman Prime Minister, a hung parliament and a country not knowing who its Prime Minister was for nearl ... |
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Author: Edel Wignall, Edel Wignell & Elizabeth Botte
'Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?' Everyone knows the words. Many people know that the poet 'Banjo' Paterson wrote them. But how may people know the origin of the tune? In 1895 ... |
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Author: Jim Haynes
Did you know that Jorrocks raced till the grand old age of 19? Or that Melbourne Cup winner Grand Flaneur never lost a race? Or that Sunline was the top stakes-winning mare in the world in her day? The Best Australian Ra ... |
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