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This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each ...
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean ...
'Deeply researched with keen judgements, Traitors and Spies is a devastating indictment of Australia's security services and their political masters in the decades before ...
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the ...
October 1830
Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland towards ...
He fought Napoleon's army and survived.
He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose.
Now he is in chains and on his ...
In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern ...
John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island, tells a story of thwarted love that he claims led him to a life of crime: including ...
'Meticulous research. . . Veitch fleshes out a tale of courage and tragedy and brings it to life with drama, passion and detail.' Herald Sun
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From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale ...
'Mowed them down wholesale!'
With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia.
Coniston, Central Australia, 1928 ...
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and ...
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly
The oft-told exploits of Billy ...
From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked ...
