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During this greatly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the massive diversity of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and squaddies, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it truly is from their lives and their tales that he has woven a colourful historical past to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our distinctive nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been dwelling in her place of birth of Christchurch, New Zealand, while the town was once struck through a significance 6. three earthquake, merely 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one grew to become the final word horror tale: complete suburbs have been decimated, homes collapsed, hillsides fell away, and other people have been killed or trapped in rubble and raging fires.

Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand

The Devil's Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails on the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch's first gang struggle. best Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by way of Black strength individuals on the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the moms, PEP schemes and P purchasers, patches and ridgies, colors and sophistication: for 5 a long time gangs have had a tremendous effect on New Zealand lifestyles.

Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts

This e-book contributes to the worldwide flip in First international struggle reports by way of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diversified obstacles and via situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra advanced contexts. This diversified and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the studies of prisoners of struggle, nurses and pink go employees, the resonances of abroad occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the struggle via remembrance and illustration.