The revival of a classic work of journalism which exposes the gap between the official story and reality Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever--and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and "forgotten" even in its own time. At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist ......
Three murders, three perfect murders... near the rabbit-proof fence in desolate Western Australia. Perfect - except the process was exactly as described in Arthur Upfield’s crime novel The Sands of Windee (1931). It had all began in 1929, when Upfield was working on the fence and plotting a new novel featuring the Aboriginal detective, Napoleon ......
Now available for the first time, here is Upfield's own story of tramping Australia and developing his great crime novels featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective, alongside real desert characters like One-Spur Dick, Mr Pluto, Dead March Harry and the evil Snowy Rowles. Illustrated with photographs from Upfield's archive. The tangled ......
Arthur Upfield is internationally known for his 29 crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs – through Cooper’s Creek, visiting ......
Terra Nullius, Aboriginal Land Rights and Settler-Colonial Law
Generations before ‘Terra Nullius and longer still before Mabo, Aboriginal land rights were built into the instructions for the white colonists of southern Australia.
A history of Darwin's second decade, the 1880s. It was a boom decade of railways construction, gold rush, sugar plantations, pastoralism, massacres, murders and mayhem.
So much that has enriched Sydney has impoverished Pyrmont and Ultimo. Once known for its railway yards, woolstores and mills, wharves, powerhouses and quarries, the landscape has been degraded. The authors give life to the rich and turbulent past of an area teeming with new residents and workplaces.
With Australia on the brink of Kevin Rudds national history curriculum, this book explores the issues confronting us in 2010. Who owns the past? How do politicians use it? How does it shape who we are? An absorbing insight into the power, privelege and pleasures of the past.
Beautifully bound new edition of a famous colonial journal. The genteel yet candid observations of a brave wife and mother who joined in the founding of Melbourne 172 years ago. Edited for publication in 1934 by Georgianas grandon, the poet Hugh McCrae. An important heritage document but also a fine gift. Illustrated by the author.
