Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
A Case to Answer
The story of Australia's first European war crimes prosecution
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The trial of Ivan Polyukhovich stretched across the world as witnesses gathered to testify from Ukraine, Israel...
Out of Luck
Poor Australians and social welfare 1788-1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
'The distribution of wealth is far more equal. To begin with, there is no poor class in the colonies. Comfortable incomes are in the majority, millionaires few and far between.'
This opinion, voiced a century ago by a British journalist on a tour of the colonies, sums up the widely-held and...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Adelaide is located in the West side of Australia, famous for wine tasting.
It's a beautiful and peaceful city where you can backpack around. People are friendly, with nice scenery for photo taking, or even diving!
If you decide to explore Adelaide, you can bring this ebook along....
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Do you like city life? Well, Sydney can be your next holiday destination! It's one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Sydney has one of the world famous construction - the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. You have to go and see personally to feel the magnificent....
Republicanism and Responsible Government
The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Government explores...
Islam Dreaming
Indigenous Muslims in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From the Malay pearl divers of Broome to the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for more than three centuries. This comprehensive account reveals the life stories of the Muslim pioneers and their descendants as they formed bonds with the indigenous people...
by Chee Min Ng
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Annually, about 50,000 places are allocated by the Australian Government under the Skilled Independent stream.
This 2019 guide provides essential information for aspiring skilled independent migrants to Australia. It covers the Points-based Skilled Independent (subclass 189) visa. It covers eligibility...
by R. E. N. Twopeny
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1883. "Although most educated people know that Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide are populous towns, I should doubt whether one Englishman, who has not been to Australia, out of a hundred realizes that fact. I well remember that, although I had taken some trouble to read up information...
History of Africa, Asia and Australia
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In History of Africa, Asia and Australia, Kanski offers readers key information on the history...
by Arnold Safroni, Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
“Confessions of a Life at Sea, In Australia and amid the Islands of the Pacific”. Published by Grant Richards, London a first edition 1915.
Thick octavo, 304 pages private library stamp at front and rear of Thomas Kinmore of Cork, Ireland. Nicely illustrated with 23 images from photographs....
Foucault and Family Relations
Governing from a Distance in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of families...
“Should I Go Walkabout” Again (A Motorhome Adventure)
Diary 2—Part 1 of “The Big Lap”
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
After expressing my doubts and fears about leaving my comfort zone on the Gold Coast, in order to venture the road in an ageing motorhome in unfamiliar territory for an undefined destination, I reflected on that last long journey. We had experienced breakdowns, bad weather, boredom, relentless distance,...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Most of the fish caught are sharks (great white, tiger, even a few carpet!) but you can't go big game fishing in Australia and not expect to be teased by marlins.
Guarding the Periphery
The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Based around the Pacific Islands Regiment, the Australian Army's units in Papua New Guinea had a dual identity: integral to Australia's defence, but also part of its largest colony, and viewed as a foreign people. The Australian Army in PNG defended Australia from threats to its north and west, while...