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Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it...

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Shattered Anzacs tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home dis...

Looks at the complex interrelationships between human culture and the nature. Covering the period...

In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that blac...

For 23 years and through four editions, Urban Pest Management in Australia has been the major ref...

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The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Tu...

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In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of ...

'A masterpiece of analysis of the politics of transformative change.' - Otago Daily TimesIn the a...

The annual collection - now in its tenth year - celebrating the finest voices in Australian scien...

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Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means there is no comprehensive law th...

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The first Australasian text on community disability services to provide a ready source of evidenc...

Explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and e...

The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia give...

No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following t...

In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best-known writers on rel...

Peace marches, protest demonstrations and campaigns for or against every cause imaginable have lo...

In the late 1970s, 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing persecution. Their arriv...

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The people who volunteered to help during the HIV AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s provid...

When experienced journalist Chris Rau found herself on the other side of media fence after her si...

The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power...

From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 199...

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'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to...

The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation f...

This second edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, g...

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In April this year, Michael Gordon was the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the re...

The Revised 8th Edition of Steel Designers' Handbook is an invaluable tool for all practising str...

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Renowned nutritionist, Rosemary Stanton, and prominent exercise scientist, Andrew Hills, provide ...

This important book, the first of its kind, is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic stud...

In this provocative book, Peter Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in t...

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