History : Australia & Oceania

This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of people living in three areas commonly described as 'disadvantaged'- Inala in Queensland, Mount Druitt in New South Wales and Broadmeadows in Victoria - this is a book in which impoverished Australians, who are often absent from debates about poverty, tell their own stories. more...

Price: $21.00

At a time when we are continually urged to move on, to put the past behind us, the perverse persistence of the past is everywhere evident … (it) retains the power to haunt and seduce us, to shame us and make us proud.' more...

Price: $34.95

I was born on 18 August 1932. I am a Torres Strait ‘Solwata Woman’, Wagadagum Tribe, of the Kadal and Dangal Totems. My father was Tomi Loban from Banda Neira, Indonesia. He was a pearl shell grader on Thursday Island. My mother was Geti Loban (nee Summers) from Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait. This book I am writing is about the journey I wish to share with readers. It has been 24 years since my first and only book Somebody Now was published and I have been approached by young Torres Strait women to document achievements since then. My family also have encouraged me to try and accept this challenge because my medical problems restrict me, with time spent in hospital, and my physical and mental capacity of endurance. So, thank you Sylvia Tabuai for raising the issue. My book is based on memory and reflection. There are many issues still facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and I must put down my thoughts about them. I leave behind in this book some ideas for the future so that others may learn from them. Ellie Gaffney AM more...

Price: $36.00

Renowned Australian authority on Ned Kelly, Ian Jones, shares the result of many years' research into the legendary bushranger's life. Ned Kelly emerges as a man who hated conflict yet never escaped it. A thorough account of a most remarkable life. more...

Price: $14.45

Winner of the 2005 Northern Territory Chief Minister's History Award. A sometimes contentious figure in Australia, Paddy Cahill is revealed through his lively collection of letters to Sir Baldwin Spencer and others. A one-time buffalo hunter, Cahill spent years farming on his Oenpelli property where he experimented with dairy cattle, growing fruit and vegetables while paying the Aboriginal workers who helped run the property. more...

Price: $40.00