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"Io non sono una backpacker" si anima in un fotolibro. Il viaggio raccontato da istantanei attimi della mia Australia, seguendo il motto: "“I am painting the light. I am playing with the sun and colours' life!”.

“We always said we wanted to travel when we had the time. Now it's our turn.” Thus retirement, in the year 2000, launched a four-month wander. We traveled by camper van, station wagon, train and and motor yacht in Australia and Bali and Papua New Guinea. We did underwater photography with slide...

Born on a Hunter estuary, NSW, island in 1857, James Clark was orphaned at age two, arrived penniless in Brisbane ten years later, and never looked back. Starting out in Torres Strait at 23, he became the dominant figure in Australia’s pearlshelling industry, The Pearl King. Then, with a young partner,...

Herb Feith came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from war-torn Europe in 1939 and went on to become an internationally renowned and passionate scholar of Indonesia. This engaging biography tells Feith's extraordinary story and traces his interest in Indonesia, his determination to establish networks...

The life story of Joan Martin is that of a fierce Aboriginal woman who fought for the rights of her community and her autobiography also tells of the Aboriginal experience in general since World War II. Born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941, Martin led an exciting and adventurous...

This book examines national debates on immigration, asylum seekers and guest worker programs from 1970 to the present. Over the past 45 years, contemporary immigration has had a profound impact throughout North America, Europe and Australasia, yet the admission of ethnically diverse immigrants was...

The Launceston Film Society prides itself on being the largest film society in Australia with a membership in excess of 1500 people. Its beginnings though were a little less ostentatious. It is this story that has been researched and written by Launceston historian Dr Thomas Gunn in the new book From...

Handbook for international students.This publication is designed specifically for international students enrolling at Monash University in Australia.

Over 200 million backpackers decide to travel abroad every single year.  Have you ever wondered what it would be like, to travel with nothing but a few necessities strapped to your back? Are you thinking about backpacking but not really sure if it is the right thing to do? Are you scared about...

From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the Battle of Pozières. It was the first strategically important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First World War, including Gallipoli....

Born in Germany, Margitta Acker came to Australia in June 1962. Five weeks later, she was married at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Reid. For her, it was a wedding among strangers. Her memories of settling in Canberra, exploring her new surroundings, finding work, making friends and raising a family give...

These memoirs record life in Brisbane, Australia during the Second World War, as seen through the eyes of a child. Pamela Davenport was two and a half when the war began. She has vivid memories of this time. As a lifelong historian, Pamela knows that childhood reminisces of the war years are rare,...

At the age of nine, lying on the old shared mattress next to her sleeping sister and Nonna, Trish vowed not to live like this forever. Looking through a hole in the asbestos wall, the night was dark, as black as black, but through the hole she could see the speck of a star in the far sky, and to her,...

In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacification' employed by the Republic of Vietnam and external 'Free World' allies such as the US and Australia....