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Blunders, stuff-ups and misjudgements are a part of any country's history. Dwelling on what might have been isn't always helpful, but recognising our mistakes and learning from them is important. This book attempts to do just that. It explores many stories, scenarios and situations. It is an account of where we might have got it wrong.

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This new 2016 edition of the ground-breaking The Intervention: An Anthology includes a preface by Anita Heiss and brings together some of Australias greatest Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and thinkers who analyse, illuminate and voice their anger, disgust and horror at the Intervention introduced by the Howard government in 2007.

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They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and her brother, Barney, shared something in common - a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature - with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinary book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walking over hundreds of kilometres in Europe and of her brother's obsession with paragliding.

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The Little Black Book of Business Writing is for everyone who writes for business purposes, in the commercial world, the private sector, the trades and the professions. Helps people write at work with economy, impact and efficiency.

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An engaging account of the ways in which over hundreds of years Indigenous and Southeast Asian people across Australia have traded, intermarried and built hybrid communities. It is also a disturbing expos of the persistent sometimes paranoid efforts of successive national governments to police, marginalise and outlaw these encounters.

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With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-liberalism tear ever more deeply into the social fabric, the principle of the commons should be restored to the heart of our politics.

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In The Power of Choice, award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate portraits invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what constitutes a good death

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Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. It manages to be both a wild ride and introspective at once, exploring a condition that touches thousands of people, directly or indirectly.

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The story of Tasmanias most controversial forestry giant, the corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down. Gunns collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire and how it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of power.

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Scots have been invisible ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. This title offers a comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants including convicts and free settlers and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to this day.

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There are also the individuals who shaped the history of the Australian Army in the 20th century, as intellectuals, strategists and administrators, who are largely invisible in popular memory. The Shadow Men brings together some of Australia's best military historians to shed light on ten of these men and to bring their achievements and influence into the foreground.

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A memoir combined with rigorous thinking and analysis, a book that prompts insightful questions about how we live. One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean to live a good life In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience.

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In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australias history. The Tim Carmody Affair explores his damaging and divisive tenure and the judicial rebellion that followed.

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For many years reading Alan Ramsey's vitriolic, vindictive but always entertaining and insightful pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings for many Australians. This collection of his best reveals how twenty-five years of national leadership by Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia forever.

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Bushwalking - an organised long-distance walk in rugged terrain that requires maps and camping equipment, or a family day out - is one of Australias most popular pastimes. This landmark book, now updated, delves into its rich and sometimes quirky history.

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The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydneys famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in every account of Sydneys criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had a biography of her own. Novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl made a fortune in eastern Sydney and became a leading underworld figure.

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Brings together the stories of heroic, groundbreaking and everyday enterprises in transport in shipping, roads, rail and aviation across Australia. This is the fascinating story of how transport in Australia has developed, and how it has impacted our lives.

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Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria. Blacks letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for this revelatory book written by his great-granddaughter.

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Harry Vanda and George Young put Friday on our minds, triggered Easyfever with the Easybeats, and harnessed the raw energy and power of Aussie pub rock to make superstars of AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, and the Angels. The day Vanda and Young met at Sydneys Villawood Migrant Hostel has been called the most significant moment in Australian music history.

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Commemorates Victorias World War I soldiers, nurses and their families in stories from the home front and battlefront. Bestselling historian Michael McKernan tells the stories that highlight the generosity, devotion, sacrifice and spirit of a community pushed towards breaking point.

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This gripping collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them. The author, an experienced intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an intensive care unit.

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The Wayside Chapel in Sydneys Kings Cross is a meeting place for people from all walks of life. In Wayside Pastor Graham Long tackles profound truths about life, the Wayside, friendship, overcoming hardship and the redemptive power of love. Gary Heerys striking portraits honour the visitors, volunteers, staff and friends whose paths cross at the Wayside.

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This book reviews the long guerilla struggle of the 'Organisasi Papua Merdeka' (OPM) for a Free Papua, and traces the rise of a non-violent independence movement alongside it, the Papua Council, following the fall from power of Indonesia's military dictator, General Suharto, in 1998.