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During this extensively acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the massive variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and squaddies, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it's 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 were dwelling in her homeland of Christchurch, New Zealand, whilst town used to be struck through a value 6. three earthquake, in simple terms 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had brought on harm yet no fatalities, the second one turned 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 conflict. leading Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded through Black strength 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 many years gangs have had an immense influence on New Zealand existence.

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

This publication contributes to the worldwide flip in First global struggle experiences via exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout different obstacles and by means of 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 stories of prisoners of struggle, nurses and purple go staff, the resonances of in another country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the warfare via remembrance and illustration.