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Cover of How to find a job in Australia?
by Monica Makari
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011

HOW TO FIND A JOB IN AUSTRALIA Over 65 pages of detailed information on job search! Do you want to land your dream job in Australia? If you are serious about exploring your realistic options to work in Australia, this is your chance! This book reveals insider secrets and step-by-step...
Cover of A Shorter History of Australia
by Geoffrey Blainey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians. After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through...
Cover of Australia's Worst Disasters
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Graphic accounts of Australia?s worst disasters ? historical as well as events of recent years. From the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 to the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital in 1997, and from the shocking Granville railway crash in 1977 to the Sea King helicopter crash of 2005, Australia's...
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Traitors

How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free

by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they...
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Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters

Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters

by Evan McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005

From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tragedy of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Evan McHugh captures all the drama of Australia's maritime history. There are swashbuckling mutineers, violent storms, uncharted reefs, enemy warships, as well as ripping yarns about Dutchmen...
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by Judith Brett
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017

Alfred Deakin—scholar, spiritualist, prime minister—was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind...
Cover of The History of Tasmania, volume 2 of 2
by John West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include...
Cover of Natural Wanders in Australia
by Linda Lee Rathbun
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011

A nature-loving travel writer and her photographer/husband run away from their home in Florida to spend a year wandering in Australia. Wander with them as they enjoy the highs and lows of life on the road, and as they re-discover many of Australia's natural wonders. If you have ever been to, or would...
Cover of Meet... Don Bradman
by Coral Vass
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including cricket's greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Don Bradman was Australia's greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking...
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Fear of Abandonment

Australia in the World Since 1942

by Allan Gyngell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it. In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established...
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Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth

History and Australia's Future

by Mark McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018

Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the...
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The Words That Made Australia

How a Nation Came to Know Itself

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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements – from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries – that take...
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The Taciturn Man

and other Tales of Australia

by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

An immigrant's tale of an untamed country Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australia in the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression. The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when...
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North of Capricorn

The untold story of the people of Australia's north

by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005

'This scintillating account by Henry Reynolds, a revisionist history in its best sense, is a door opening wide onto [another Australia].'- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian 'Reynolds reveals yet another forgotten aspect of our shared history.' - The Age 'This is a fine book, logically...
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