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Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stor...

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Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrori...

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In 1970 homosexuality was illegal, God Save the Queen was our national anthem and women pretended...

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This gripping collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their famil...

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Why everything you think you know about Australia's Vietnam War is wrong.When journalist and hist...

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Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly h...

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Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our m...

For the first time, Serving in Silence? reveals the integral role played by lesbian, gay, bisexua...

Rivers and Resilience traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from t...

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After thirty years of giving workshops, talks and seminars to family historians and genealogists ...

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