Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly's Mother by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother Ellen Kelly was born during the troubles in Ireland. When she arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. When she died at the age of 91 in 1923, h ...Show more
The Farm : Images of Rural Australia by ANDREW CHAPMAN
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Coffee Table Books
Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time.These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst ...Show more
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of Women, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction.2'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the lan ...Show more
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Great Bush Stories - Colourful Yarns and True Tales from Life on the Land by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colorful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through Australian history and folklore, entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Graham Seal has gathered classic and little-known stories from the time when mos ...Show more
Melbourne: A Panoramic Gift Book by Steve Parish
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australia from the Heart Ser.
Stunning Steve Parish photographs and informative text capture Melbournes highlights. Includes the Yarra River, Southgate, Port Phillip Bay, Melbournes culture and heritage, the Dandenong Ranges, Phillip Island and Great Ocean Road.
The Prom: Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria by Travis Easton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Affectionately known as ‘The Prom’ by its innumerable devotees, Wilsons Promontory National Park is one of the oldest and most popular national parks in Australia. Its mixture of quartz sand beaches, impossibly blue seas, granite peaks and picturesque islands combine to create a stunning coastline of ra ...Show more
Westography by Warren Kirk
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Westography' is the name Warren Kirk gives to his photographs of Melbourne's western suburbs; but they transcend postcodes. The mysterious world they capture - poignant remnants half-forgotten yet strangely familiar - could be found in any large Australian city whose suburbs have been gentrified in the ...Show more