An Australian Story of Mistakes, Mistreatment and Misinformation
A book about corporate greed and foreign interference. About submissive Australian governments and media, who neglected the health and safety of their own people at the bidding of the global pharmaceutical industry.
This much loved and very popular book will now be available again, in an attractive paperback edition. A diverse collection of private and public dwellings from 100 years of Canberra, revealing social history, and the innovation and foresight of owners and designers.
Footnotes is the reminiscences of a long-time journalist who specialised in politics and law. From the Press Gallery to the High Court, to New Guinea and Beijing, Solomon saw it all. Alongside politicians and other exemplars, Footnotes details conversations with Sir John Kerr, Gough Whitlam, John Menadue, and Laurie Oakes.
Nostalgic trip to the days when the Greek Café was the gathering place for every town and suburb. Effy Alexakiss evocative photos are paired with marvellous images from family albums. The cafes and the people behind them, showing décor, milkshakes, sundaes and innovative sweets were combined in a unique and special Australian experience. The ......
Hes back! Alexander Bunyip, beloved Australian icon, is back to entertain children in a reprint of the bestselling book which made him famous. First published in 1972, The Monster that Ate Canberra features Michael Salmons immensely popular bunyip. Alexander is familiar to many from school, theatre and television. The book ......
Decades before the First Fleet, French ships were exploring large stretches of Australia. This Handsomely colour-illustrated book tells the story of intrepid French explorers who charted and named many regions, laid claim to the West Coast and, but for upheavals back in Europe, could have established a French colony in Australia.
This year, Adelaide Festival Writers' Week is dedicated to Australia's leading living poet, A.D. Hope. Millions of students have read his poems, but this exciting new selection is the only edition in print. Prose selections include notorious reviews of writers like Patrick White, essays on poetry, and fresh notebook material.
Beautiful, intelligent, huge, Whales cast their spell over us, but remain a mystery. Wade Hughes is a writer, and an artist with the underwater camera, who with his wife Robyn has travelled the world, meeting whales. Amazing photos show whales being themselves in the moods, and phases of life, with evoking text. ENDORSED BY AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
THE WOI WURRUNG NURSERY RHYME SERIES presents well loved nursery rhymes in English — and translated into the ancient Woi wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people. Yingora Yingora Wayibu Durt — TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR is translated by Wurundjeri elder, Aunty Gail Smith, with Lily Mammone’s illustrations.
