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During this broadly acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to lifestyles the big variety of characters who've shaped our nationwide tale. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and infantrymen, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it's 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 precise nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron were residing in her fatherland of Christchurch, New Zealand, whilst the town used to be struck by means of a value 6. three earthquake, merely 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 folks 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. leading Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by way of Black strength individuals on the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the moms, PEP schemes and P buyers, patches and ridgies, colors and sophistication: for 5 many years gangs have had an enormous effect on New Zealand existence.

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

This ebook contributes to the worldwide flip in First global warfare stories through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout assorted limitations and by way of situating Australian voices and views inside of broader, extra advanced contexts. This assorted and multifaceted assortment comprises chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of warfare, nurses and crimson go staff, the resonances of in another country occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the struggle via remembrance and illustration.