Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
John Williamson's Christmas in Australia by John Williamson
$14.99 AUD
Category: australian history
From Australian icon and singer-songwriter, John Williamson, comes this hugely popular family song, brought to life by talented artist, Mitch Vane. It's Christmas in Australia and Dad wants that perfect Christmas family photo, but someone is always missing
Wednesdays with Bob by Derek Rielly, Bob Hawke
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian history
On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics ...Show more
Birth of Melbourne by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into 'marvellous Melbourne'. And yet, as Tim ...Show more
Cheeky Dogs : To Lake Nash and Back by Johanna Bell; Dion Beasley (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian history
In this exuberant illustrated memoir, action-packed images and poetic words trace Dion Beasley's fascination with cheeky dogs and his unconventional journey into the world of contemporary art.
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in our Museums & Why we Need to Talk About it by Alice Procter
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyo ...Show more
Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians by National Museum of Australia
$49.95 AUD
Category: australian history
The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of C ...Show more
Bundjalung Weavers - Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali, We Weave Together by Rhoda Roberts AO (Compiled by); Kylie Caldwell (Compiled by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: australian history
'Bundjalung Weavers: Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali...we weave together' presents a rich visual display of Bundjalung weavers practices set in their traditional country of Northern Rivers, NSW. It is a powerful testimony to the strength, endurance and talent of the weavers whose stories are told in the publicati ...Show more