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During this greatly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the gigantic variety 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 certain 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 was once struck through 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 grew to become the final word horror tale: complete 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. top Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by means of Black energy participants on the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the moms, PEP schemes and P buyers, patches and ridgies, shades and sophistication: for 5 a long time gangs have had an incredible impression 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 stories by means of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diverse barriers and via situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra advanced contexts. This different and multifaceted assortment comprises chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the studies of prisoners of warfare, nurses and pink move employees, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the struggle via remembrance and illustration.