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  • Mary Booth

    The Woman who Shaped the Anzac Legend

    Mary Booth was a woman of startling contradictions - one of Australia's first female doctors, a pioneering feminist and nationalist, she was also a staunch political conservative and a devoted empire loyalist and nationalist. She championed infant welfare, war commemoration, environmental reform, and the place of women in public life, all while navigating a society deeply shaped by gender and race ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Last Battle

    Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916–1939

    When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers ... Read more

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  • Girt Nation

    The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 3 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
    David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore.Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

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  • Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    by Lady Hale ...
    Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional ... Read more

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

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  • The Words That Made Australia

    How a Nation Came to Know Itself

    Edited by Chris Feik, Robert Manne ...
    This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be.These are the essential statements – from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries – that take us from Federation to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery.There is the Frenchman who saw ... Read more

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  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

    The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    by Jane Robinson ...
    It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? ... Read more

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  • Great Australian Speeches

    by Pamela Robson ...
    Great Australian Speeches brings together a diverse and often moving collection of more than 40 speeches ranging from colonial times to the present day. Some have resonated with power enough to shape the nation; others encapsulate the best and worst of the Australian character. This selection proves that stirring oratory is not simply the preserve of politicians and military figures. Bushranger ... Read more

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

    With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted ... Read more

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  • New Zealand in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Moon ...
    A fascinating and vibrant history of the New Zealand experience in the twentieth century.this is an accessible social history of life in New Zealand throughout the twentieth century, a time before most of us were born, as well as a period within which most of us have lived. Superbly researched and carefully chosen incidents and passages of history have been selected to tell our story, using diary ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • In Denial

    The Stolen Generations and the Right; Quarterly Essay 1

    by Robert Manne ...
    Series Book 1 - Quarterly Essay
    In this national bestseller Robert Manne attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aboriginal children had been taken from their parents.What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD