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During this extensively acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the huge diversity of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and infantrymen, 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 certain nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been residing in her fatherland of Christchurch, New Zealand, while town was once struck by way of a significance 6. three earthquake, in basic terms 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had triggered 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 battle. top Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by means of Black strength 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 many years gangs have had a big effect on New Zealand lifestyles.

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

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