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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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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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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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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.

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The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family and friendship.

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Charting the life stories of ten different gay men, this book questions whether gay life has contemporary relevance, or if being gay has lost its air of transgression and simply become another lifestyle niche.

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"A NewSouth QuickEs book"--Title page verso.

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Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by distinctive patterns of political thought from the colonial period to the Rudd government. But how have these patterns arisen An invigorating history of people trying to make sense of their world.

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In this brave and controversial book, some of Australia's leading historians dare to criticise Anzac. They show that the Anzac obsession distorts the rest of Australia's history. They investigate official sponsorship of Anzac through commemoration and education and show that this has mobilised it as a conservative force, often for political ends.

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In this provocative book, Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality Why does the market have such power, and how does it dictate the sort of art we are allowed to see

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After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. This autobiography recalls McPhedran's pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese invasion and his extraordinary trek to freedom.

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Award-winning filmmaker and historian Rachel Landers wrestles with the evidence to unravel this complex cold case in forensic detail, exposing corruption, conspiracy theories and political intrigue - and a prime suspect.

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Born into a Croatian migrant family, Tom Dusevic spent his childhood roaming the streets of Canterbury/ Bankstown in the 1970s. He vividly describes the experiences of his family as they grow into a new culture. Its a tale of discomfort and regeneration, of people not quite settled in their new skin; feet in both camps, with hearts and head tugged between the two.

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It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime - in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities - go hand in hand.

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A compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia. Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country.