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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum & EBookPLUS by Robert Darlington
$49.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: History Alive for the Australian Curriculum Ser.
Based on the highly successful Humanities Alive series, History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum and eBookPLUS provides the most engaging and fascinating coverage of the new Australian Curriculum for History for year 7 students across Australia. KEY FEATURES ? Visually appealing double-page spreads ...Show more
Humanities Alive 8 Ac Pack (History Alive 8 for the Ac + Geography Alive 8 for the Ac + Business and Eco Alive 8 + Civics and Citiz Alive 8) by Yvonne Darlington; Robert Darlington
$64.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: History Alive for the Australian Curriculum Ser.
Save with Value Packs, customised to suit your needs. Our range of Humanities Value Packs offer students an interactive and engaging suite of resources including textbooks, eBooks workbooks and digital-first products. This Value Pack includes: History Alive 8 for the Australian Curriculum Edition and ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Our Corner of the Somme - Australia at Villers-Bretonneux by Romain Fathi
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Ser.
By the time of the Armstice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a re ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more