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During this broadly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to existence the gigantic variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and infantrymen, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it truly is from their lives and their tales that he has woven a colourful heritage to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our targeted nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron were residing in her place of birth of Christchurch, New Zealand, whilst town used to be struck via a importance 6. three earthquake, merely 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had triggered 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 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 warfare. best Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by means of Black energy 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 tremendous impression on New Zealand lifestyles.

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

This ebook contributes to the worldwide flip in First international warfare reviews by way of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout different limitations and through situating Australian voices and views inside of broader, extra complicated contexts. This assorted and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the studies of prisoners of struggle, nurses and crimson move employees, the resonances of in another country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the struggle via remembrance and illustration.