The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Fontier
by Sarah Murgatroyd
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The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of...
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The Birth of Sydney
by Tim F Flannery
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The story of the founding and rise to prominence of one of the world's greatest cities -- Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The...
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Goodbye Bussamarai
by Patrick Collins
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Bussamarai was a powerful resistance leader whose influence spread across five Aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulwuy, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered...
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Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Objects/Histories)
by Jane Lydon
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An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its...
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Don't Tell the Prime Minister
by Patrick Weller
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Focusing on the controversy surrounding asylum seekers in the November 2001 Australian federal election, this book explores false allegations and deliberate political lies that strongly influenced the campaign's outcomes. In a vivid account of these...
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Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard
by Judith Brett
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Judith Brett, award-winning author and well-known Australian political scientist, provides the first complete history of the Australian liberal tradition, as well as of the Liberal Party from the second half of the twentieth century. The Liberal Party of...
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Modernising Australia's Drug Policy
by Alex Wodak
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99) and index....
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Handbook of Rural Medicine in Australia
by David Wilkinson
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The Handbook of Rural Medicine in Australia is the definitive resource for Australian medical students studying rural medicine. It is an invaluable reference for doctors undergoing postgraduate training in rural and remote areas....
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