Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
World Heritage Sites of Australia by Peter Valentine
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Visitors to Australia marvel when they see the places recognised by the United Nations as World Heritage. From the ancient, pristine temperate rainforests in the south to the massive escarpments and tropical wetlands in the north, they are dazzling in their ecological complexity and the record they offe ...Show more
Hudson Fysh: The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings By the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and th ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australia
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
Australia's Pivot to India by Andrew Charlton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton The time has come for Australia and India to forge closer ties - and reap the benefits. But will Australia seize the opportunity? India is on the rise ...Show more
Australia's Most Infamous Criminals: Gripping stories of bold heists, clever scams and mysterious murders by Graham Seal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Page turning stories of inventive scams, dramatic escapes and captures, and vile deeds of our most infamous criminals. 'Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads.'-The Weekly Times Australia's master storyteller trawls our rich history of cold ca ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more