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Melbourne (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Perth (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

This book is a comparison of the history and politics of two sister societies, comparing Canada with Australia, rather than, as is traditional, with the United Kingdom or the United States. It is representative of a particular interest in promoting more contact and exchange among Canadian and Australian...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and is often showcased in magazines like National Geographic and Travel and Leisure. One of the world’s best and most accessible coral reefs, the Great Barrier Reef is also the only natural structure on earth that...

Victoria (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Listed by Lonely Planet as one of the ‘Top 10 must-visit cities of 2014’, the city of Adelaide is an iconic destination in Australia. From the rolling Adelaide Hills to the stunning beaches, from the heritage-listed buildings to the wide streets lined with skyscrapers, Adelaide encapsulates a...

Respected fishing writer Steve Cooper lists his top fishing spots around Australia in this title for keen anglers. Divided into state chapters, Steve offers detailed information on each of his favourite fishing spots and impressive images showing some big catches. Steve highlights fish species in each...

If you are a traveler, you definitely must travel to Perth at least once in your life. It's located at the Western part of Australia, and voted one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Perth itself is very serene, peaceful, yet she has everything you need - magnificent buildings, beaches,...

Australia has often been said to possess a “larrikin streak,” from the Stiffy and Mo cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film The Sentimental Bloke. When it first emerged around 1870, larrikin was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class...

Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part. Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling...

'I did not look for skeletons in my family's cupboard, but once the cupboard was open, they simply fell out.' A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came...

Dando-Collins adroitly interweaves a compelling family history with the broader canvas of the Anzacs. Crack Hardy is a fine and important book. This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came...

In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia – mostly for its impact on our citizens...