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During this broadly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the monstrous variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and infantrymen, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it's from their lives and their tales that he has woven a colourful background to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our detailed 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 used to be struck through a significance 6. three earthquake, basically 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one turned the final word horror tale: whole 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. major Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded through Black strength participants 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 big influence on New Zealand existence.

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

This e-book contributes to the worldwide flip in First global struggle experiences by way of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diversified barriers and via situating Australian voices and views inside of broader, extra advanced contexts. This assorted and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reports of prisoners of battle, nurses and crimson move staff, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the warfare via remembrance and illustration.