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Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
Category: History | Series: Australians | Reading Level: very good
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
Category: History | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
Australia's Coast: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
Including its castaway islands, Australia's perimeter stretches for nearly 60,000km - enough to lap the equator one and a half times. Of this tally, 94 per cent of the coast rolls wild and free, barely altered by humankind. Enjoy this pictorial voyage around its shores, bays, harbours and beneath its wa ...Show more
Australia's Outback: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
There's no signpost or map reference, nor any border to cross - even though it covers several million square kilometres. In the end, the genius of The Outback is that you can't pin it down. To get there you have to head inland and keep travelling. You'll recognise it when it happens, but before you do, ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Battle of Broodseinde Ridge 1917 (#21 Australian Army Campaigns) by William Westerman
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
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Battle of Menin Road 1917 (#20 Australian Army Campaigns) by Roger Lee
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Passchendaele Campaign of 1917 is associated with images of slimy, oozing mud: mud deep enough and glutinous enough to drown men, horses and equipment, mud so pervasive that it, rather than the enemy, defeated the British Army's only major campaign in Belgium. While these images are certainly true f ...Show more
Battle of Pozieres 1916 (#22 Australian Army Campaigns) by Meleah Hampton
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle of Pozières has reverberated throughout Australia's military history, long regarded as a costly battle that produced little meaningful gain. Pozières was characterised by the most intense artillery bombardment the Australians had experienced in the war thus far and 'the hell that was Pozières ...Show more
Battle over the Atlantic: RAAF in Coastal Command 1939-45 (#3 Australian Air Campaigns) by John Quaife
Category: Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Series
At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident -- and just as the first shots of the war were fired -- young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaign ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2019 by Russ Radcliffe
Category: Humour | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Rowe, Andrew Weldon, ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2020 by Russ Radcliffe
Category: Humour | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
Welcome to 2020. Brexit, Trump, leadership challenges- those were the days. The Morrison government, after delivering its promised tax cuts, had only one thing on its policy mind- protecting its presumptive budget surplus. Sure, avoiding questions about such trifles as sports rorts, robodebt cock-ups, a ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2021 by Russ Radcliffe
Category: Humour | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.Featuring Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Johannes Leak, Sean Leahy, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Row ...Show more