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Best Australian Political Cartoons 2022 by Russ Radcliffe
Category: Humour | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The twentieth-anniversary edition of this much-loved annual collection brings you the last year in politics, as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. 2022- the year we slapped ourselves on the back for a job well done, and put the last few awful years behind us.Well ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023 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 Ro ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2024 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 Ro ...Show more
Best Mates - Australian Photographic Gallery by Melanie Faith Dove
Category: Photography | Series: Australian Photographic Gallery
The Australian Photographic Gallery is a series of books that explores the Australian landscape in all of its dimensions: natural, cultural and social. Celebrating the talent and the passions of Australian photographers, it is highly individual yet accessible, inspiring and thought provoking.The first t ...Show more
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Born Again Blakfella by Jack Charles
Category: Memoir | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Born at the Right Time: A Memoir by Ron McCallum
Category: Memoir | Series: Senior Australian of the Year | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Blind from birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities. Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, ...Show more
Bridget: A New Australian by James Moloney
Category: Fiction | Series: New Australian
Bridget's family has been turned out of their home during the Irish potato famine and their only refuge is the workhouse where living conditions are hard and freezing and the food sparse. There is one chance for Bridget and her sister - to take a ship to a new country and become Australians. But will th ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Bushrangers by Kenneth Muir
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Timelines Ser.
This is the story of the wild colonial boys -- the bushrangers who terrorised the highways and back roads of regional Australia for a century from 1788. This diverse group of criminals varied from 'gentlemen' to outright psychopaths, from hold-up merchants to murderers. The book relates how their very d ...Show more
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. 'Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels, a defining w ...Show more