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In September 2021 the Morrison government committed Australia to the single greatest security inv...

Mary Booth was a woman of startling contradictions - one of Australia's first female doctors, a p...

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Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray follows on from the bestselling Great Propertie...

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Celebrating 85 years! Let's look back with a critical eye-and look forward with renewed curiosity...

The Twilight of Exceptionalism is the third in Paul Kelly's masterful trilogy on modern Australia...

From the winner of the ACT Book of the year Award for his first book, The River, comes this celeb...

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Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that...

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Foreword by Gary Foley.For generations, Indigenous peoples in Australia have faced systemic barri...

For most of the twenty-first century, Australia's national politics has been characterised by tum...

Quality information on caesarean birth is essential.Around 40 per cent of Australian babies...

There is a secret world beyond the reaches of our human senses in which things behave entirely di...

When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ra...

For the first time in Australia's history, women economists lead three of our top economic instit...

Ngarn Wa'ngal: Art of the Gum Tree is a landmark publication dedicated to the eucalypt and the ar...

Journalists do not often get the chance to reflect on the ethical side of their work, and the pub...

This ground-breaking study of work placement looks at the experience of 50 young short-term train...

Céleste de Chabrillan, former courtesan and widow of the first French Consul to Melbourne, became...

This is a book about conflict: conflict between a country with limits to its international influe...

The radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (16 9 1911-27 9 1983) was persecuted by the Australian go...

'Magical', 'out of this world', 'an experience you'll never forget': Peter Weir's films have enth...

Words matter. And good writing matters. Especially in the information society, in which more writ...

Whitlam's Children is the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australi...

In 2010 the Australian Government decided that it would not propose a Human Rights Act, despite t...

Lost Waters charts the history of waterscape change for a Moorabool River catchment near Ballarat...

Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked t...

The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused pass...

Good leadership. Why is it so elusive? Are there successful traits that can be transferred from o...

Histories of Australian Sociology brings together, in one volume, a comprehensive collection of o...

The Australian Greens has been described at various times as the fastest growing new party in Aus...

Intelligence plays an important, albeit often hidden hand, in the everyday function of government...

For we are young and ...? offers a provocative perspective on Australia's young people against a ...

Women scientists leave the profession in greater proportions than men and are under-represented i...

From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and Nor...

This book is the culmination of a multi-year research project funded by the Australian Research C...

Paul Mees' urban ideal counted on watchful, confident and well-informed citizenry to work collect...

Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending t...

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