Aboriginal Place Names by Reed A W
$22.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Aboriginal library
A comprehensive collection of Aboriginal names from all over Australia, and their derivations. Thousands of place names are listed, each followed by the state it is found in and its meaning. There is also a dictionary that gives the Aboriginal translations for common English words.
Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
The Wonder of Little Things by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he w ...Show more
Come Together: Things Every Aussie Kid Should Know about the First Peoples by Isaiah Firebrace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Come Together is a heart-warming, debut picture book for children aged 5 and up from pop artist Isaiah Firebrace, inspired by his petition to the Australian Government calling for Aboriginal history to be taught in every classroom. In this essential book, Isaiah, a Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara man, estab ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Tasmania State and Suburban Map 770 29th Ed by UBD Gregory's
$11.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: State Map Ser.
The latest edition of the Tasmania state and suburban map has been fully revised and updated and includes:State map & index to towns and localitiesSuburban map coverage of Hobart north to Mangalore and Runnymede south to Oyster Cove and South Arm, east to Sorell and west to Molesworth and an index t ...Show more
BOOK OF THE BANNED: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes That Made Australia Sweat by Simon Miraudo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
BLASPHEMY AND HORROR! SAUCY SWEDES! LUKE SKYWALKER'S CHARRED AUNT & UNCLE! Australia has censored it all. Did you know Aussie audiences were originally banned from watching bona fide classics The Night of the Hunter, Breathless and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (to name just a few out of literal hund ...Show more
Power, Culture, Economy Indigenous Australians and Mining by Altman Jon Martin David
$48.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australian Bushrangers by Coupe Robert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Surveys the history of bushranging in Australia. From the initial, brutal days of European settlement and our first convict - bushranger Black Caeser in 1789 to the capture and death of legendary folk hero Ned Kelly in 1880.
Dignity in a Teacup by Christine Cummins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counsellor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention, during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories sha ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more