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During this extensively acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the monstrous 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 distinctive nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron were dwelling in her place of origin of Christchurch, New Zealand, while town was once struck via a importance 6. three earthquake, basically 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one grew to become the last 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 struggle. leading Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded via Black strength individuals 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 incredible effect 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 by way of exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diversified obstacles and via situating Australian voices and views inside of 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 employees, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the warfare via remembrance and illustration.