Australian history
Reconciliation Memoirs with Patrick Dodson
Each year, Reconciliation WA produces the memoirs of a long-standing champion in the reconciliati...
Each year, Reconciliation WA produces the memoirs of a long-standing champion in the reconciliation movement. In 2025, Victoria Laurie sat down with Patrick Dodson to present his Reconciliation Memoirs. Patrick Dodson, a Yawuru Elder from Broome, an Australian Indigenous rights activist and former Western Australian senator. Patrick has long been honoured as the 'Father of Australian reconciliation' and has held numerous prominent positions, including the founding chairman of the Council for ...
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Book - Welcome to Country Handbook: Gde to Indi...
The Welcome to Country Handbook A Guide to Indigenous Australia By: Marcia Langton The Welcome to...
The Welcome to Country Handbook A Guide to Indigenous Australia By: Marcia Langton The Welcome to Country Handbook by Professor Marcia Langton AO is your accessible introduction to First Nations Peoples, histories and cultures. Drawn from the bestselling Welcome to Country, this guide is essential reading for every Australian, and an excellent resource for cultural awareness training in the workplace or classroom. The chapters cover precolonial and post-colonial history, language, kinship, kn...
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Book - Reconciliation Memoirs with Carol Innes
Reconciliation Memoirs with Carol Innesin conversation with Victoria Laurie Each year, Reconcilia...
Reconciliation Memoirs with Carol Innesin conversation with Victoria Laurie Each year, Reconciliation WA produces the memoirs of a long-standing champion in the reconciliation movement. This year Reconciliation WA sat down with Noongar leader Carol Innes AM, to present her Reconciliation Memoirs, written in collaboration with Victoria Laurie. Carol is a committed advocate for the reconciliation movement, and has made a significant contribution to the recognition, preservation, and advancement...
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Abandoned Gwalia, Western Australia, and other ...
Abandoned Gwalia, Western Australia, and other abandoned townsErin Jordan Red dirt, intense heat,...
Abandoned Gwalia, Western Australia, and other abandoned townsErin Jordan Red dirt, intense heat, and hordes of flies; the Australian Outback is one of the harshest environments in the world. But this did not stop early settlers from attempting to make a living in the desert in the search for gold and the chance at a better life. Now the mining boom has created specialised camps with fly-in, fly-out workers, leaving once-booming settlements to disappear off the map forever. In this beautifull...
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Fire and Hearth: A study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western AustraliaSy...
Fire and Hearth: A study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western AustraliaSylvia J. Hallam , (Preface by) John Mulvaney Professor Sylvia J. Hallam FAHA has written a substantial Afterword to accompany a facsimile edition of her classic work from 1975, 'Fire and Hearth'. In the light of considerable interest in this subject we are thrilled to release this work of deep scholarship back for a new readership. This revised edition includes a Preface by John Mulvaney, and a fol...
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Reconciliation Memoirs with Fred Chaney
Reconciliation Memoirs with Fred Chaney in conversation with Victoria Laurie The Hon Fred Chaney ...
Reconciliation Memoirs with Fred Chaney in conversation with Victoria Laurie The Hon Fred Chaney AO’s commitment to social justice, and his belief in the equal value of all people, has driven a long and passionate career in advancing the reconciliation movement in Australia. The 2022 launch of the 'Reconciliation Memoirs with Fred Chaney' captures his handover notes from sixty years in the Reconciliation movement. Written by Victoria Laurie.
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The Story of Australia: For the Young
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)Don Watson A modern classic - Don Watson's...
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)Don Watson A modern classic - Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's 'The Story of Australia' is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Indigenous Australia and looks to the future, asking- where will we go from here? In clear, succinct language that both children...
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Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
Girt: The Unauthorised History of AustraliaDavid Hunt Girt. No word could better capture the esse...
Girt: The Unauthorised History of AustraliaDavid Hunt Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia. In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. 'Girt' introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of 'felony of sock', and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first anima...
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Rottnest: Its Tragedy and Its Glory
Rottnest: Its Tragedy and Its GloryEdward Jack Watson Ned Watson's stories of life on Rottnest at...
Rottnest: Its Tragedy and Its GloryEdward Jack Watson Ned Watson's stories of life on Rottnest at the closing of the decades of the 19th century make fascinating reading. He was there during some of the island's tragic and colourful periods. No one alive could write with such authority or such understanding of the human suffering and triumphs of this period. The ghost stories and lighter side of island life are also entertainingly recorded. This well-illustrated book will be read again and ag...
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Gum:The story of eucalypts and their championsAshley Hay No matter where you look in Australia, y...
Gum:The story of eucalypts and their championsAshley Hay No matter where you look in Australia, you’re more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as pearl or rough as guts, they have defined a continent for millennia, and shaped the possibilities and imaginations of those who live among them. Australia’s First Nations have long knowledge of the characters and abilities of the eucalypts. And as part of the disruption wrought by colonial Australia, botanists battled...
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Great Furphies of Australian History
Great Furphies of Australian HistoryWhat you really need to know - the truth behind the mythsJim ...
Great Furphies of Australian HistoryWhat you really need to know - the truth behind the mythsJim Haynes Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook, and that the Rum Rebellion was not caused by rum? And what a...
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Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu DebateKeryn Walshe and Peter Sutton An authoritative s...
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu DebateKeryn Walshe and Peter Sutton An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu' in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led t...
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