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In 1803 the convict escapee William Buckley, an Englishman and former British soldier, abandoned the life he knew and without contact with Europeans lived for ...
The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The stroke of luck that made Hugh Jackman ...
While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna.
First published in 2007 ...
Railway lines are typically shown on maps as permanent, however many lines are now abandoned. But the experiences of rail trips to distant places by ...
Silent Memories - Traumatic Lives is a quest for understanding, an attempt to make sense of the very emotional history of the Ukrainian post-war migrants to ...
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of ...
In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. "They dreamt big, they built big...it was a city jumping out of ...
In 1972, a group of prisoners at Parramatta Jail in Sydney put together a glossary of prison words and phrases. It is a list of ...
'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' -Courier-Mail
In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our ...
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The first major history of Paddington - Sydney's celebrated heritage suburb - in forty years
By popular demand, this ...
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 ...
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 ...
A revelatory biography of Australia's longest-serving prime minister.
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years ...
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Mungo's Australian classic, updated by acclaimed historian Frank Bongiorno.
Since 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the ...
Crossing the Dead Heart is a classic narrative of modern exploration - and follows the first crossing of the Simpson desert by the author in 1939 ...