Mark Courtney's world ended in October, when the Rabbitohs were excluded from the NRL. In his despair he wrote this remarkable saga of childhood, teenage and adult life, and his club's mortal struggle against corporate greed. His is the story of every sports fan.
Grand homes, the opulent life of the squatocracy, class conflict, gentry and convict origins, skulduggery, human foibles and noble visions: the true story of one of Australia's leading pastoral families, centered around Como, one of Australia's favourite historic homes.
Australia leads when it comes to using computers in the quest to make the law accessible to the public. Here contribitors from Africa, Japan, the Pacific, China and Britain join Australian judges and internet experts, to consider the aims, challenges and practicalities of putting legal knowledge into the hands of the people.
Collection of writers speeches made at the annual presentations of the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards from 1980 to 1999. Contributors include Donald Horne, Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, David Williamson, Manning Clark, Dorothy Green, Thomas Keneally, Rosemary Wighton, Morris West, Elizabeth Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, ......
With Australia on the brink of Kevin Rudds national history curriculum, this book explores the issues confronting us in 2010. Who owns the past? How do politicians use it? How does it shape who we are? An absorbing insight into the power, privelege and pleasures of the past.
The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction. Realism, Feminism a
Examines a century of realist fiction and challenges a contemporary feminist assumption that realist writers speak for patriarchal liberalism. In the work of writers such as Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and Sally Morgan, Susan Lever finds new perspectives on sex and fictional forms.
Kurdish men and women, aged between 23 to 103 - including freedom fighters and soldiers, mothers and musicians, doctors, teachers, and scholars, villagers and city people - describe their ancient and modern history, culture and life experiences: their religions, literature, legends, music, village and family life, genocide, and armed struggles.
This volume of Public History Review visits Changi, least glamorous of all ex-pat lifestyles; the Rachel Forster Hospital, where ladies became doctors; Collarenebri, where Aborigines searched for a place to bury their dead; and Cabramatta, where a community created a monument to legitimise its presence.
Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.
