Anna Funder
Anna 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…
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Stasiland
Truth can be stranger – and more fascinating – than fiction. Anna Funder tells extraordinary…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Anna Funder
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
2003
Teacher Resource
Essay
The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history …
Author:
Henry Reynolds
Publisher:
UNSW Press
Published year:
1981
Henry Reynolds
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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Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
David Unaipon – the man on the $50 note – was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal …
Year:
Secondary, Year 10
Author:
David Unaipon
Publisher:
MUP
Published year:
1930
Teacher Resource
Essay
David Unaipon
David Unaipon is considered to be the first Indigenous Australian author, publishing Aboriginal legends in the 1920s. Without permission, the publisher Angus and Robertson sold the copyright of the stories to William Ramsay Smith who published Myths …
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Dancing With Strangers
In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, …
Author:
Inga Clendinnen
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Published year:
2003
Inga Clendinnen
Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong in 1934. Her early books and scholarly articles on the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico earned her a reputation as one of the world’s finest historians. Reading the Holocaust, Tiger’s Eye and Dancing with Strangers …
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The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It …
Author:
Grace Karskens
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2009
Grace Karskens
Grace Karskens teaches Australian History at the University of New South Wales. Her groundbreaking book The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney won the 1998 NSW Premier's Award for Local and Regional History and established the author as a leading historian …
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