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Reissue of one of the author's most noted novels that deals with three generations of an Anglo-Australian family around the turn of the twentieth century contrasting both Australian and English society.

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Ashley Hogan tells the story of a moment in human history when Australia became known for it's courage and liberalism. At the conference that founded the United Nations, Australia spoke to the great powers, that voice belonged to Doc Evatt.

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Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. The contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions.

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In 1789, the HMS Bounty was sailing through the western Pacific Ocean when disgruntled crewmen seized control and set their captain, along with 18 men, adrift in one of the ship's boats. Alan Frost investigates the mayhem, mutiny and mythology of the Bounty to shed new light on what truly happened during the infamous expedition.

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Oh Lucky Country (Paese Fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichs. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice.

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Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia 'off the American path' of gun violence.

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Explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry and this book compares and contrasts life-long impersonations and other forms of cross-dressing.

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The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted hunters, traders and collectors for generations. Among the most sought-after items of the twentieth century was the bird of paradise: their magnificent plumes bedecked womens hats and provided regalia for kings and military men.

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By looking at both the material evidence produced by archaeological excavation and the written sources, Allen sought to integrate both sorts of evidence to produce an eclectic history that was neither social nor political nor economic in its primary emphasis, but combined all three.

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The Indigenous languages of Australia have been undergoing a renaissance over recent decades. Many languages that had long ceased to be heard in public and consequently deemed 'dead' or 'extinct'.

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Rolf Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms, published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 1882-83, and published as a novel in London in 1888.

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Spinifex and Sand is Carnegie's celebrated journal of exploration following several years expeditions through the most inhospitable regions of the continent.

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The Stepping On program is a community-based falls-prevention program that shows participants how to reduce falls, increase confidence and maintain personal independence.

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The Eureka Stockade is Carboni's eccentric yet shrewd account of the events leading up to and beyond the miners' revolt on the Victorian goldfields in 1854.

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The first novel of the Chinese Australian experience, it is a roller-coaster tale of blackmail, murder, betrayal and even thylacine attack, partly based on real people, places and events.

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Watkin Tench served as a captain of marines on one of the vessels of the First Fleet and recorded his observations of the voyage in A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. Tench also wrote of the subsequent settlement in New South Wales in A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson.

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This report highlights changes in general practice activity in Australia over the most recent decade (April 2001 to March 2011) of the BEACH program, a national cross-sectional study of general practice activity. Over this time 9801 participating GPs provided details of 981,000 GP-patient encounters.

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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 is an account of Clacy's visit with her brother to the Victorian goldfields. It combines detailed description with features of real dramatic interest and gives a lively impression of the times.