This innovative book marks a new way of looking at convict women. It tells their stories in a powerful and evocative way, drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual ...

First published in 1996, Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the ...

This 1991 book is a history of political conflict over health policy in Australia, providing background to an ongoing debate.

This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in Van Diemen's Land ...

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This book, published in 2000, explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land.

The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions ...

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

Parliament is central to the democratic claims of our system of governance. This book evaluates the role and performance of this centrepiece of Australian government. It ...