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During this commonly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the colossal 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 background to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our designated nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron were residing in her fatherland of Christchurch, New Zealand, whilst the town was once struck via 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 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. major Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded via Black energy contributors 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 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 struggle stories through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diverse obstacles and by way of situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra advanced contexts. This assorted and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of struggle, nurses and pink go staff, the resonances of in another country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the conflict via remembrance and illustration.