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During this commonly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to existence the titanic 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 distinct 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 town used to be struck by means of a importance 6. three earthquake, purely 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: 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 warfare. leading Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded through 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 an important influence 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 global conflict experiences through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout different barriers and via situating Australian voices and views inside of broader, extra complicated contexts. This different and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of conflict, nurses and crimson pass staff, the resonances of in another country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the conflict via remembrance and illustration.