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During this generally acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the huge variety 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 background to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our exact nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been residing in her native land of Christchurch, New Zealand, while town used to be struck via a importance 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 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 battle. best 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, colors and sophistication: for 5 many years gangs have had a major effect 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 by way of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout different obstacles and via 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 reports of prisoners of struggle, nurses and pink move staff, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the warfare via remembrance and illustration.