A Concise Companion to Aboriginal History by Malcolm Prentis

Farewell, Dear People: biographies of Australia’s lost generation

WINNER OF THE 2013 top MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN historical past WINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK apartment nationwide CULTURAL AWARD counseled FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARD For Australia, a brand new kingdom with a comparatively small inhabitants, the dying of 60,000 squaddies in the course of international warfare i used to be catastrophic.

Great Australian World Firsts: The things we made, the things we did

From Sir Jack Brabham (first to win a Grand Prix in a motor vehicle of his personal layout) to Tom Angove (inventor of the wine cask), from Bruce Thompson (introduced the 1st twin flush bogs) to Mary Fortune (the first girl writer of detective fiction) - listed below are the world's nice principles, innovations, feats and follies - as performed first, by means of Australians.

Bligh

In Bligh, the tale of the main infamous of all Pacific explorers is informed via a brand new lens as an important episode within the heritage of the realm, now not easily of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and mess ups of William Bligh's lifestyles and occupation in a riveting narrative that for the 1st time portrays the Pacific islanders as key avid gamers.

Australia 1901 - 2001: A Narrative History

Andrew Tink’s magnificent e-book tells the tale of Australia within the 20th century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A century marked by means of the trauma of warfare and the melancholy of the melancholy, balanced by means of impressive achievements in recreation, technological know-how and the humanities. a rustic underpinned by way of a political process that labored more often than not and the emergence of a normally harmonious society.