Australia & New Zealand

After once trying to keep its population white and predominantly British, Australia reversed course. Since 1947 it has absorbed five million immigrants peacefully from some 240 countries around the globe, with increasing numbers from Asian nations. In...

Nation, the third and final volume in the landmark history of Australia told from the point of view of settlers from Europe, covers Federation, World War I and its aftermath. The culmination of Alan Atkinson's extraordinary career in the writing and...

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Australia's extraordinary contribution to World War I extended well beyond its military forces to the expertise of its universities and professional men and women. Scientists and engineers oversaw the manufacture of munitions and the development of...

After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism, fascism and World War II...

In this personal yet unsentimental memoir, Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty unearths the revealing and unique history of tennis and its ties to culture and nationalism.For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge.Peter Doherty, one of the...

During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand's South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured...

For over a half century, New Zealand's leading historian Keith Sorrenson-himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent-has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. From the origins of Maori (and Pakeha ideas about those...

'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the...

This account of Sir Earle Page's eight-month mission to London provides insights into Anglo-Australian, Anglo-Dominion and United States-Australian wartime relations during a crucial phase of the Second World War. It offers an understanding into the man...

In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a...

Us Maoris used to practise slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. `Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life...

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Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when the report of the controversial Roth Royal Commission in Western Australia was made known to the public, to the...

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By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later,...

The NDIS has directly helped more than 600,000 Australians-and indirectly more than two million-vastly improving the lives of a group of people who had been left behind- people with disability. It is the most audacious and ambitious piece of social...

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