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During this largely acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the large diversity of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and squaddies, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it truly 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 distinctive nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been dwelling in her homeland of Christchurch, New Zealand, while town used to be struck by means of a significance 6. three earthquake, merely 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one turned 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 strength 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 an immense effect on New Zealand lifestyles.

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

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