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During this broadly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to existence the colossal variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and squaddies, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it really 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 precise 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, whilst the town used to be struck by means of a significance 6. three earthquake, in basic terms 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had brought on 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 battle. top Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by way of Black energy contributors 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 an incredible effect on New Zealand existence.

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

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