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In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillard's own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world.

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Blending long-form journalism with true crime and philosophy, Erin Stewart's The Missing Among Us takes us from the Australian bush, to the battlefields of Northern France and the perilous space of a refugee camp to explore stories behind the missing.

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Allan Riverstone McCulloch was a leading scientist and talented illustrator, the Australian Museum's most senior curator and its star exhibition designer. The Naturalist explores McCulloch's scientific genius and artistic talents, and his crucial role in the development of the Australian Museum.

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Why have white Australians so often rejected the delicious and nourishing foods native to our own continent the wild rices, native fruits, meats, herbs and spices This is one food revolution that really matters and it will change how you look at Australia. John Newton argues that if you are what you eat, we need to eat different foods.

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Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, this book describes the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.

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Explores the secrets of the National Herbarium of New South Wales and unearths remarkable stories of plant naming wars, rediscovered lost species, First Nations agriculture, illegal drug labs and psychoactive plant knowledge.

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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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Provides a unique blend of practical insights and critical analysis of the exciting new medium of podcasting. Packed with case studies, history, tips and techniques from the author's four decades of experience, this original book brings together a wealth of knowledge to introduce you to the seductive world of sound.

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The Rising is a story of the First Nations' fightback across the entire frontier of the colony to regain control of the rivers, the lifeblood of Country.

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Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth.

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Elizabeth Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, reveals a story of a cataclysmic collision between an ancient Aboriginal land and the post-war Britain of Winston Churchill and his gung-ho scientific advisor Frederick Lindemann.

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The Seventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. In a lively and engaging style, Michelle Arrow has written a new history of this transformative decade; one that is more urgent, and more resonant, than ever.

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Tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project.

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Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of Englishes. A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.

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The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians - described as 'this constant sort of war' by one early colonist - around the greater Sydney region.

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Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout the war and were the basis of his twelve-volume official war 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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For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. Wesley points to the key economic and political issues that we need to be considering right now, as a western country geographically and economically tied to Asia, and calls for a renewed public engagement and debate.

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Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book This Whispering in Our Hearts constructed an alternative history of Australia.

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The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Mandy Sayer reveals the sisters' remarkable story, from daughters of a respected Sydney surgeon with a love of theatre and the arts, to their first feature film, Those Who Love, to their final film, Two Minutes Silence.

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