Australia

From 1918, 1919 and into 1920 Australia was rocked by a series of riots involving...

Sentenced at 26 years old for his role in an uprising against British rule in...

While Patrick Dodson's bearded image is well known, the remarkable history of this outstanding Aboriginal...

The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source...

As World War II climbed to its crescendo in the Asia-Pacific, the Australian government called...

How did Big Gambling become too big to fail and too powerful to adequately regulate?...

Setting off on a "big lap" of Australia is an adventure today, but 100 years...

Wild Heart of Tasmaniais a lively collection of stories centred around a highland wilderness. It...

In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin,...

Around the world, the big department stores of the 1920s to the 1950s wielded great...

Have you ever seen, heard or felt something that cannot be rationally explained? Australia is...

The length of the working day and the challenges of work-life balance are pressing issues...

Sydney Harbour has been a defining feature for the people who have lived around it...

In the 23rd edition of this Imprint Classic, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of...

Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile...

Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian...

The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia This groundbreaking book is...

For millennia, the Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney lived in harmony with the natural environment....

Air Mobility Workhorse recounts the operational history of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Royal Australian...

A forensic analysis of how institutionalised abuse in the Australian Defence Force has affected its...

The memoirs of 23 locomotive enginemen from Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, complemented...

This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the...

Blending keen insight with engaging anecdotes and practical advice, this easy-to-read book will give you...

In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of...

After the Second World War, Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley embarked on a radical plan...

Thirty years ago, a bomb landed in the field of Australian consciousness of itself and...

Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells...

'Rails Across Australia' is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded British...