Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Whitewash
On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
In December 2002, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One by Keith Windschuttle was published. It argued that violence between whites and Aborigines in colonial Tasmania had been vastly exaggerated and sought to rewrite one of the most troubling parts of Australian history. The book soon attracted...
This Time
Australia's Republican Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn’t seem revolutionary. ‘Isn’t that already the case?” some may even ask. Flip a coin and you’ll have your answer.
In This Time, Benjamin T. Jones charts a path to an independent future. He reveals the fascinating early history...
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now
Australian Stories from a Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
‘These are our stories. All of us live in them.’ —Anton Enus, SBS News
This is the story of a peaceful revolution.
Drawing on in-depth interviews, it tells the intimate life stories of thirteen gay and lesbian Australians, ranging in age from twenties to eighties.
From the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
‘The art of the story is mostly about the journey, and the economy of means with which the writers here carry us a great distance is at times breathtaking.’ —Amanda Lohrey
In The Best Australian Stories 2014, Patrick White Award–winning author Amanda Lohrey selects the outstanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year’s Best Australian Poems.
Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David...
Whose ABC?
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983–2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
On 1 July 1983, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation came into being. It was like and unlike a church, a theatrical company, a newspaper business and, on a drastic view, an asylum run by the inmates. Its singular nature had destined it to be a field of contest ... Whose ABC? is a history of the national...
Penny Wong
Passion and Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians, written by one of Australia’s foremost biographers.
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change...
A Game of Our Own
The Origins of Australian Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition – or has it?
In A Game of Our Own, esteemed historian Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth...
The First Fleet
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the organisers’ “muddle and lack of foresight”, while...
My Country
Stories, Essays & Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time.
My...
The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2020
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.
In March this year, the nation’s most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric...
Freedom on the Fatal Shore
Australia’s First Colony
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts...
The Australians
Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
*US General Douglas MacArthur, on the Australians fighting on the Kokoda Track, 1942: “Operations reports show that progress on the trail is NOT repeat NOT satisfactory.”
To which Major-General A.S. Allen drafted this reply: “If you think you can do any better come up and bloody try.”*...
Balancing Act
Australia Between Recession and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession.
What has gone wrong with...