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
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...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 Da ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...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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I'll Be Gone; Mike Rudd, Spectrum and how one song captured a generation by Craig Horne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
It reveals the musical and personal journey of Michael Rudd a national treasure, even though he's a New Zealander! The book traces Rudd's musical origins leading Chants R&B, a quirky counter-cultural phenomenon of a band from Christchurch and follows him as he moves to Melbourne in the mid-1960's to ...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