The Tyranny of Distance
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"One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history." - The Bulletin In The …
Geoffrey Blainey has been Professor of Economic History and Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. His other books include Triumph of the Nomads, A Land Half Won and Our Side …
View Books by Geoffrey BlaineyAs the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of …
Ken Inglis is Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University. His books include The Stuart Case, This is the ABC, Whose ABC? and Sacred Places, winner of The Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in…
View Books by Ken InglisAnyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and …
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing …
View Books by Helen GarnerAnna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and documentary film-maker. In 1997 she was writer-in-residence at the Australia Centre in Potsdam. Stasiland was her first book. She lives in Sydney…
View Books by Anna FunderTruth can be stranger – and more fascinating – than fiction. Anna Funder tells extraordinary…
Teacher Resource EssayThe publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history …
Henry Reynolds is the author of fourteen books, including An Indelible Stain?, The Other Side of the Frontier, Black Pioneers, Fate of a Free People, This Whispering in Our Hearts and the award-winning Why Weren't We Told? Born in Hobart, Tasmania in…
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