Australian Journalism Today
Matthew Ricketson (ed)
Palgrave Macmillan, PB, 9781420256727
Australian Journalism Today is a collection of works by a number of experts in the field of journalism in Australia. The need for news media and journalism to make civic society central to their work and for journalists to engage in reflective practice underpin the approach taken by the editor and contributors to this book. The focus of the chapters in ... More/Buy
Australian Lithuanians
Luda Popenhagen
UNSW Press, PB, 9781742233321
In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons’ camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian refugees fleeing the Soviet regime to launch the Mass Migration Scheme. Luda Popenhagen, whose parents were part of the scheme, tells the story of how Lithuanian migrants found their place in Australia. They integrated into mainstream life while ... More/Buy
Australian Story: Stories of Courage, Determination and Love
Graham Bauer
ABC Books, PB, 9780733329906
Australian Story: Stories of courage, determination and love features ten very special Australian Stories from the last four years, selected by the Australian Story team. Much of what is filmed does not make it to air, and author Graham Bauer compellingly brings to life the complete accounts of each of these favourite stories, including insightful updates from the subjects themselves and ... More/Buy
Banksia Album: Two Hundred Years of Botanical Illustration
Alex George
National Library of Australia, PB, 9780642277398
With their bold flowering and fruiting spikes, banksias remain a favourite among artists and gardeners alike. A Banksia Album features over 90 stunning full-colour reproductions of watercolours, pencil and sepia-wash drawings, colour prints and early hand-coloured engravings and lithographs of banksias from the National Library of Australia’s collections. A Banksia Album covers over two centuries of botanical illustration, from 1770 when ... More/Buy
Politics in Australia
Martin Drum, John Tate
Palgrave Macmillan, PB, 9781420256413
Politics in Australia adopts both a historical and conceptual approach, dealing with issues considered fundamental to the Australian political system throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This text provides a detailed examination of the structural elements as well as the key concepts considered central to an understanding of Australian politics at a Commonwealth level, such as: federalism, the constitution, parliament, executive governmen, ... More/Buy
Rich Land, Wasteland: How coal is killing Australi
Sharyn Munro
Macmillan, PB, 9781742610993
For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone. Here, literally at the coal-face, towns and districts are dying - homeowners and farmers forced out by mining, broken in spirit and in health, or else under threat, their lives and properties in limbo as they battle the might of ... More/Buy
What is Australia For?: Griffith Review 36
Julianne Schultz (ed)
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922534
It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The cliches of old have long exceeded their use-by date. This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is also a time when Australia has remarkable advantages - advantages it must build on if the nation is to prosper. Instead of seizing ... More/Buy
Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier
Darrell Lewis
Monash University Publishing, PB, 9781921867262
In 1883 white men began to drive great herds of cattle into the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory, one of the last of Australia's frontiers. They entered a vast and complex tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had lived there for ... More/Buy