Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia: A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres Strait Islander Voices, Past and Present by Samantha Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Wayne Bergmann,Madelaine Dickie,
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
The Merchant Princes of Fremantle by PATRICIA M BROWN
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Rise of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy by Lydia Khalil
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. There is a 250% increase in right-wing terrorism globally since 2014. But what exactly is right-wing extremism? Why is it a global problem? How does it threaten ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more
Statements from the Soul: The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Shireen Morris, Damien Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution. In this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more