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On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest place on the continent to the ocean.This epic bushwalking story uncovers the history, country and rediscovery of this significant track. Now heri...

Continues the story told in Henry Reynolds' The Other Side of the Frontier, which argued that the settlement of Australia had a high level of violence and conflict that is ignored. That book prompted a flowering of research and fieldwork that Reynolds draws on here to give a thorough and systematic account of what caused the frontier wars between white colonists and Aborigines, how many people died and whether the colonists themselves saw fron...

Tells the story of Australia in the 20th century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It was a century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements in sport, science and the arts. Tink's story is driven by people, whether they be prime ministers, soldiers, shopkeepers, singers, footballers or farmers, men or women, Australian born, immigrant or Aborigine.

This is an updated version of Garry Wotherspoon's 1991 classic, City of the Plain, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and antidiscrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars.

In this landmark book, Rodney Tiffen asks: what is the truth about Rupert Murdoch and his audacious business practices? This comprehensive book traces his business career, the entrepreneurial strategies that led to his early success and his later exercises of monopoly power. It dissects his political ideas, the relish with which he approaches political campaigning, and the way he leverages political support into policy outcomes that favour his...

This new 2016 edition of the ground-breaking The Intervention: An Anthology includes a preface by Anita Heiss and brings together some of Australia's greatest Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and thinkers who analyse, illuminate and voice their anger, disgust and horror at the Intervention introduced by the Howard government in 2007.

St George Girls High School has held its place among Sydney'smost outstanding educational institutions for a hundred years. Celebrating the selective school's beginnings and its evolution over the decades, this book also takes a broader look at how the education of girls has changed with the times.

Timely, lively and unflagging in its coverage of an extraordinary range of organizations and individuals, "Volunteering" takes the first comprehensive look at why Australians give so much of their time for free.

On the 'long list' for the inaugural John Button Prize for Australian politics and social policy. This profoundly moving book reveals the untold story of the people who struggled to get asylum seekers out of detention and change government policy. "Lateline" journalist Margot O'Neill, who covered many of these stories while they were happening, paints a compelling and heartbreaking picture through an extraordinary cast of characters. Some, lik...

Examines the ways in which the Westminster system has influenced the shaping of responsible government and democracy across Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. It also examines the ways the Westminster system has been adapted in these different countries in the light of local practices and traditions.

No, Prime Minister shows how the increasing power of leaders has undermined the best aspects of the Australian political system. The authors argue that good democratic leadership requires robust institutions, including a fearless public service, a strong opposition, and frank policy advice.

This book spans a generation of gay life, from its early activist origins to the confident, perhaps even tired, gay Sydney of today. Charting the life stories of ten very different gay men, Robert Reynodds asks whether gay life has contemporary relevance, or if being gay has lost its air of transgression and simply become another lifestyle niche. The answer may surprise you.

Children on Demand" examines the ethics of various forms of alternative parenthood, focusing specifically on adoption and assisted reproductive technologies, and the moral dilemmas they create for both individuals and the state. Tom Frame discusses the ethical challenges that arise when scientific possibilities get ahead of community consensus. The central question of this comprehensive, careful and challenging book is what is best for the child?

When it comes to the work/life balance, modern women continually find themselves in a no-win situation where they are criticized regardless of the path they choose." The F Word: How We Learned to Swear By Feminism" argues that the pervasive idea that women will never be able to effectively combine work or interests outside the home with marriage, a social life and parenting is a furphy. In their lively and topical new book, Caro and Fox combin...

In this fascinating account, leading Australian military historians tackle 10 of the most enduring historical zombies, or national myths, that have staggered their way through the halls of military history for more than 200 years. From Aboriginal resistance and invasion to Australia's recent involvement in East Timor, this record disproves the incorrectly memorialized and so-called gallant deeds of past Australian servicemen. Provocative and o...

From jitterbugging and "Big Brother" to the introduction of television and the rise of file-sharing, this study explores the ways in which popular culture has developed and changed in Australia from the end of World War II to today. In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that have taken place Down Under, popular culture is examined through three main lenses: consumerism and the development of a mass consumer society, th...

A narrative of the twists and turns in a struggle for the control of a multi-billion dollar industry. It describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australia's broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend $4.7 billion on a new broadband network.

To get soaring profits we need to work longer and harder. Right? Wrong. With an original look at the lives of employees, managers, executives and CEO's, the authors propose a new agenda for a work/life balance, stressing that if you get relationships with employees and customers right profits follow as a matter of course.

Traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of British and Irish settlement to this day. This title offers an approach to Aboriginal history in an urban setting in Australia.