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Decades before the First Fleet, French ships were exploring large stretches of Australia. This Handsomely colour-illustrated book tells the story of intrepid French explorers who ...
Australia's war-time Prime Minister, John Curtin, has a heroic status in Australian political history folklore. He stood up to British Prime Minister Churchill and ...
The story of Australia's first elected Labor prime minister, from award-winning historian David Day. Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great ...
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?
The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as ...
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.
24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of ...
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man ...
Over the two centuries since his appointment, commentators have been as surprised at the choice of Arthur Phillip as some were at the time (the ...
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.
In ...
Passionate and elegant, The Art of Time Travel conjures fresh insights into the history of Australia and renews our sense of the historian's craft ...
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to ...
The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in ...
In the late 1970s, 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing persecution. Their arrival presented a challenge to politicians, but the way the Fraser ...
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017
Winner of the CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017
In September 2016 it will ...