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Northern Dreams - The Politics Of Northern Development In Australia

by Lyndon Megarrity

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 The book brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards.
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Climate Change - The Facts 2020

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 Leading scientists controversially question Climate Change facts and theory in an open, robust, and controversial comment on Climate Change science.
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The Piano Woman

by Rozzi Bazzani

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Women In Boots - Football And Feminism In The 1970s

by Heather Reid e Marion Stell

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 The football field was an arena of protest and empowerment for the womenâ€™s liberation movement of the 1970s. The authors follow the Australian and New Zealand national players in the male-dominated world of football, uncovering stories of vulnerability and strength, sexual harassment and sexual awakening.
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Anatomists Of Empire - Race, Evolution And The Discovery Of Human Biology In The British World

by Ross L Jones

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 With a new vision of bio-ecology that linked humans to their past and their evolutionary niche, the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe constructing morphologies of the biological world.
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An Island In The Lake

by Bruce Nash

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 Pat and Ruth Beckett have retired to the sublime landscape of the Australian far south coast. To their garden, their books, their island in the lake. They want no part of the madness of life, but the madness threatens.
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If George Orwell Were Alive Todayâ€¦ - On Nineteen Eighty-Four And The Thrust Of Orwellian Political Satire

by John Dale

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 More than any other 20th century writer, George Orwell responded to a period of historical change by imagining his dystopian â€˜1984â€™. What if he had been writing today, in an age of Islamist terror, fake news and post-truth politics?
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How Australia Led The Way - Dora Meeson Coates And British Suffrage

by Myra Scott

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 In 1901, Australia gave women the vote and the right to sit in parliament. With great vigour, Australian women, Melbourne-born artist Dora Meeson Coates and other Australian women ably involved themselves with the women's movement in Great Britain.
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Lord Sydney - The Life And Times Of Tommy Townshend

by Andrew Tink

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 Eighteenth century British convicts were sent to Botany Bay on the recommendation of 'Tommy' Townshend, a John Bull figure, and politician largely in Opposition. He also played a key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons and determining the boundary between Canada and the United States. And was made a peer, Lord Sydney, in 1883.
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Four Weeks One Summer - When It All Went Wrong

by Nicholas Whitlam

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 In the summer of 1936, over just four weeks, it all went wrong - for democracy and for Spain, even for the British royals. Politicians failed, and Hitler was emboldened to plan a new European war, and more. 'This is a book of kaleidoscopic combinations. I urge you to read it', Mark Colvin, ABC Radio National.
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Anzac - The Landing, The Legend, The Law

by Catherine Bond

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 The word 'Anzac' has been the subject of a century of legal regulation in Australia and internationally. Catherine Bond interrogates the legal history of one of Australia and New Zealand's most revered words and the restrictions on the acronym that still exist today.
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The Maddest Place On Earth

by Jill Giese

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 The true story of colonial Victoria's quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers: a gifted artist; an ambitious doctor; and a mysterious undercover journalist.
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Melbourne Street Life

by Andrew May

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 Artist Ugo Cataniâ€™s â€˜A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889â€™ sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne, imagining the everyday past and seeing the urban landscape with new eyes. This award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.
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Visual Reality - An Analysis Of The Visual Image In Painting

by Percy Leason

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 In the early 20th century, Modernism was challenging all artists and notable Australian artist Percy Leason saw it as an existential threat.
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Friends, Fashion & Fabulousness - The Making Of An Australian Style

by Sally Gray

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 Manolo Blahnik once claimed that Australia was 'the most creative place in the world'. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s-90s.
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Forgotten Country - A Short History Of Central Australia

by Alan Powell

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 Central Australia has been the last frontier of Australia, and politically the forgotten country. This is the story of European settlement and its culture clash with the original people.
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Rooms In The City

by Nicholas Hasluck

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 Athens, November 1915. A city buffeted by the chaos of the war, a city swarming with spies and opportunists. When a British counter espionage unit is contacted by a man from Smyrna, it seems that a bold new plan is afoot to cut through the Turkish defences at Gallipoli.
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The Bradshaw Case

by Nicholas Hasluck

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 New to Broome in Western Australia, Colin Everett is drawn into a fierce legal dispute over land ownership. A key witness disappears. To win for the Aboriginal claimants, Colin must find the witness, overcome opposition and probe the origin of ancient rock art.
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The Blasphemy Laws

by John Dale

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 It's 2048 and an Islamist political Party has swept to power. Overnight the country is transformed by the introduction and ruthless enforcement of the blasphemy laws. There is resistance.
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Memoirs Of A Bourgeois Falsifier

by T. H. Rigby

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 T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6.
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Wild Bleak Bohemia - Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon And Henry Kendall: A Documentary

by Michael Wilding

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 Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of 19th century Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishing.
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First Know Your Enemy - Comprehending Imperial German War Aims & Deciphering The Enigma Of Kultur

by John A. Moses e Peter Overlack

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 The question of how Germany's war planning impinged on Australasia is also closely examined. Moses purposefully seeks to expose the fallacy of seeing the past in terms that reflect some present-day agenda.
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Guy Gaunt - The Boy From Ballarat Who Talked America Into The Great War

by Anthony Delano

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 Guy Gaunt's infiltration of America's leadership changed the course of history. He built a career and notoriety by playing outside the rules.
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The Many Lives Of Douglas Mawson

by Emma Mcewin

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 Douglas Mawson is famous as an Antarctic explorer who narrowly escaped death on the ice, yet he is enigmatic and cloaked in controversy. Here, McEwin reflects on her forebear's public and private persona.
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