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During this largely acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the massive diversity 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 native land of Christchurch, New Zealand, while the town was once struck via a importance 6. three earthquake, basically 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: 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 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 many years gangs have had an incredible influence on New Zealand lifestyles.

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

This publication contributes to the worldwide flip in First global struggle stories through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout assorted limitations and by way of situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra complicated contexts. This varied and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of struggle, nurses and pink pass employees, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the struggle via remembrance and illustration.