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John Moore and his wife, Margaret Moore (née Considine), were early European pioneers who settled in around 1843 in the North East of what was then known as the Port Phillip District of the Colony of New South Wales and is now the State of Victoria. Like the great majority of their fellow settlers, neither John nor Margaret was born in Australia. John Moore was born in Woodchurch, Kent in 1816. He emigrated from England to New South Wales in 1...

A mysterious group prepares to carry out a ruthless terrorist attack... Geoff Miller, a Melbourne loss adjuster, is investigating a Workers Compensation claimant, suspected of rorting the system. He follows him to a remote Victorian country property where he observes the claimant, and others, on an obstacle course. Whilst videoing the claimant from a distance, Miller realises he's stumbled across a private army or terrorist group, but whilst f...

This trio of brothers, whose names are almost unknown to the present generation, are deserving of a monument to their memory in each of the respective towns in which they resided, and so liberally assisted to establish as centres in the north-eastern part of Victoria." North Eastern Ensign, Friday, 30 June 1893, p. 3.

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong, the scene of previous adventures. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to investigate a cold case murder. Isla Quinn, an old school friend of D...

Awoman's head is found in mangroves on a tidal riverbank, but the rest of the body is found on an ocean beach nearby. The coroner is baffled by the strange method of separation of the head and some missing bits. Harry and crew receive an odd phone call, resulting in the retrieval of a beautiful, bikini-clad girl with a sickening, spine-chilling tale to tell. Jolted into White Knight mode, Harry pursues, then infiltrates a sex-slavery ring, whi...

Greg Bruce is an orthopaedic surgeon who served in the Royal Australian Air Force. Between 1995 and 2008, he was sent overseas on ten military deployments to humanitarian disasters, local conflicts and war zones, including the most attacked US base in Iraq. The restricted medical resources, dangers and harsh living conditions made military surgery very different from civilian practice. There were good experiences and horrible experiences. Ther...

The convict's plea in mitigation was one of misfortune, abandonment, abuse, neglect and destitution: human flotsam and jetsam caught in the massive transformation of the industrial and agricultural revolutions, the pursuit of empire and the insatiable hunger for land." Janet McCalman "Jonathan Harris' life as a convict and transportee was remarkable in its own right. Equally remarkable is the fact that he contracted three marriages over the ...

No Nervous Lady is more than the story of a young couple who try to solve their marriage problems by embarking on a tree change. It is also the personal story of a young woman, Jann, who is committed to the survival of her family and her relationship with the man she loves. Set during a time of social and political change - the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the rising wave of new feminism, a growing conservation movement - this is the tale of ...

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Hodgkiss is persuaded to investigate the mysterious death of a boy at the very school which he had attended decades earlier. As his inquiries progress he becomes horrified at what he finds, blackmail, intimidation, attempted murder and finally murder. When a member of the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Coun...

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Four adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong visit a friend in a rented house adjacent to a council car park. When a bottle flies over the high wall surrounding the car park Hodgkiss wonders if was just someone skylarking or something more sinister. Later when the owner of the house has moved back in another bottle ar...

Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her ghastly husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She finds a most ingenious way of doing it and looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.A man held prisoner in an unfinished building desperately draws what he can see from his window, hoping that someone will work out where he is being held. That ...

Where love commits, law contracts, where love forgives, law seeks redress, where love trusts, law asks for obedience. Living becomes a process of bargaining, not of making love real.'In this second edition of Making Love Real, David Hodges asks whether the 'laws' of Christian Churches encourage or discourage a loving life. He lays bare the difficulties between the Churches as hierarchical institutions and the original intentions of Jesus as pr...

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Hodgkiss' daughter, Esme, and son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, present him with a puppy from the local pound their timing could not have been worse. There is open warfare between dog owners who exercise their pets off-leash at the local oval and the sporting groups that use it. The cau...

I write this new more inclusive history of Australia because it fills a gap in what we have not included and still continue to omit in Australia's history.There are many aspects of Australian multiculturalism that are not included in general Australian history books. Aspects such as Aboriginal history, peoples, language, arts, heroes and leaders, outlaws were all missing and needed to be included.Further, it has been my great pleasure to meet ...

Grasping the Horizon traces the amazing lives of three generations of a single family of squatters. Having left poverty and social disgrace in England in the early 1820s, they seized the opportunity to re-make themselves in Australia. Through ruthlessness, courage and enterprise they fought the original inhabitants of south-eastern Australia for their land, and established vast pastoral empires in south-eastern Australia. They then fought colo...

Roma Randles has used the time on her hands during the Melbourne Covid Lockdown to respond to innumerable requests for an account of her thirty years of extraordinary and exciting European adventures. It makes for some compelling reading.So many participants returned again and again to travel with Roma, discovering great art, great architecture, great music and magnificent locations all over Europe. They met great personalities, they shared gr...

With former Australian SAS Major, Harry Stevens and the Firebird crew heading home from their harrowing, but lucrative Indonesian operation, a call from the Australian PM sees the crew despatched to beautiful Lord Howe Island to investigate some disturbing events.How can a beautiful and tranquil sub-tropical paradise have such a rotten core? Harry's disconcerting habit of attracting trouble strikes again as he encounters:A wife-beating police ...

How often do you stop to think about how your street got its name, or why it starts and ends where it does? The former City of Collingwood (incorporating Abbotsford, Clifton Hill and Collingwood) has its history written in its streets and the more one discovers about its past, the more meaningful the names and layout of the streets become.

There's no doubt that Charles has had an interesting life. Born in England during the Depression, he experienced the Blitz on London, the Flying Bombs, and then the V2 rockets.From the age of sixteen Charles spent the next 24 years travelling the world aboard British, New Zealand, Fijian, and Australian ships, then settled ashore in Melbourne to start his own packaging business. He was later asked to work with the U.N. in Jordan, based in Amma...