Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dar ...Show more
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
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Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens ...Show more
Secrets of Aboriginal Healing by Gary Holz; Robbie Holz (As told to)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A guide to the 60,000-year-old healing system of the Aborigines revealed through one man's journey to overcome multiple sclerosis - Written at the request of the Aboriginal people the author stayed with - Explores the use of dreamtime, spirit guides, and telepathy to discover and reprogram the s ...Show more
The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book: Australia's Best-loved Songs and Dances with Words and Music by Dobe Newton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book is a collection of some of the best-loved folk songs performed by The Bushwackers band. Featuring music, lyrics, guitar chords and whimsical illustrations, The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book is a nostalgic, funny and sentimental celebration of the Australi ...Show more
The Ferals that Ate Australia: From the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia by Guy Hull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmare Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now domina ...Show more
The Knowledge Solution: Australian History: What Place Does History Have in a Post-Truth World? by Anna Clark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Does history provide us with cautionary tales or does it highlight the contested nature of our understanding of the past?Colonisation, nationalism, racism. Fighting on foreign shores, violence on our own country. Workers' rights, land booms, cultural wars. What can we learn from these reoccurring events ...Show more