Australians: 1

During this greatly 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 infantrymen, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it truly 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 have been dwelling in her native land of Christchurch, New Zealand, whilst town used to be struck by way of a significance 6. three earthquake, in basic terms 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had triggered harm yet no fatalities, the second one turned the last 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. major Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded via Black strength contributors 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 an immense impression 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 battle reviews through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout assorted barriers and by means of situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra advanced contexts. This assorted and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the stories of prisoners of conflict, nurses and crimson pass employees, the resonances of in a foreign country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the battle via remembrance and illustration.