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During this generally acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to existence the significant variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and squaddies, 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 certain nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been residing in her place of birth of Christchurch, New Zealand, while the town used to be struck by way of a value 6. three earthquake, basically 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one grew to become the last word horror tale: whole suburbs have been decimated, homes collapsed, hillsides fell away, and folks 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 conflict. best Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by way of Black energy participants on the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the moms, PEP schemes and P purchasers, patches and ridgies, shades and sophistication: for 5 a long time gangs have had a major effect on New Zealand existence.

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

This booklet contributes to the worldwide flip in First global struggle reviews through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diversified barriers and by means of situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra complicated contexts. This diversified and multifaceted assortment comprises chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of warfare, nurses and purple go staff, the resonances of abroad occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the conflict via remembrance and illustration.