Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
by Trudy Toohill
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
At the time, Ned Kelly’s bushranging exploits were the biggest news story in the country. From 1869 to 1910 numerous newspaper articles were published on him. The Reporting of Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang is a compilation of these articles which tell this historic story as it was read by the nation...
Maconochie's Gentlemen
The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements...
by Beverley Cowcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
A beautiful and gentle story of a branch of the Mainland family, beginning with their early years in Australia. After establishing their roots in country Victoria, the family migrated to the farming community of Narrogin, in Western Australia, and finally lived in Dunsborough and Busselton, which were...
Australian Race Relations
1788-1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
Australian Race Relations has been a subject of continuing controversy, whether focused on Aboriginal issues such as the High Court's Mabo decision, or the latest wave of immigrants. This book provides the historical context necessary for an understanding of contemporary issues in a society coming...
by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
"How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?" Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing...
Negative land
How conservative politics destroyed Australia's 44th Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The election of the Liberal–National Party in 2013 was meant to put an end to division within Australian politics, after three years of painstaking internal leadership warfare in the Labor Party.
But nobody told Tony Abbott. He assumed, quite wrongly, the electorate voted him in...
My Beach Dream(s)
Jenny's Photographic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Photos (great) and videos of scenic and tranquil Gisborne, New Zealand by my friend, Jenny Palmer
“I make art through photography and my camera is my paint brush (on the canvas of life).”
Photos (great) by my friend, Jenny Palmer
Jenny's Photographic Journey and My Journey through...
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers
Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest...
Born in Hope
The Early Years of the Family Court in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Family Law Act of 1975 and the establishment of the Family Court of Australia in the following year aimed to revolutionize the settlement of marital disputes. But the court quickly became the focus of hostility, and many saw it as a failed experiment. Drawing on interviews with judges, lawyers,...
by Dom Milner
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In this extensive ebook I will be sharing with you all my knowledge about travelling around Australia. Discover where you should visit, read all about the different states, learn about different tours to do, use our handy tour guides and so much more.
We will also give you all the different...
by Graham Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The book deals with the Australian Constitution from a citizen’s point of view, on the basis that the Constitution is the most important document in everyone’s life. It is the vehicle which allows the Government to make all the laws that control our society. As such, it needs to be understood by...
by Ernest Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND ORIGINS.
CHAPTER 2. AT SCHOOL AND AT SEA.
CHAPTER 3. A VOYAGE UNDER BLIGH.
...
CHAPTER 27. LAST YEARS AND DEATH OF FLINDERS.
CHAPTER 28. CHARACTERISTICS.
CHAPTER 29. THE NAVIGATOR.
CHAPTER...
The Three Brothers
When George Washington and Edmund Barton Sat Down to Dinner
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
History with a mystery
The Great War is raging.* *Mysterious circumstances cast an aging George Washington into a strained dinner with Edmund Barton, Australia’s canny and pugnacious first prime minister.
The Three Brothers presents an original and witty behind-the-scenes peek into...
Developing Dialogues
Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship. Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television...