Crossing Cultures - An Anglo Australian Working in Aboriginal Communities by Barbara Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the early 1980s, Barbara Jackson visited her father in Tennant Creek and was catapulted into the harsh reality of life in an Aboriginal community. Her version of Australian history hadn't prepared her for the racism, the sub-standard living conditions, or the suffering. She decided to do something ab ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church - and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other ...Show more
Cradle by Rob Blakers (Editor); Chris Bell (Photographer); Grant Dixon (Photographer)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pictorial Books
Photos by Chris Bell, Rob Blakers, Grant Dixon, Peter Dombrovskis, Dennis Harding and others. Informative text by Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick.
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: very good
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
Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Pictorial Books
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
$49.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more