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During this extensively acclaimed quantity, bestselling writer Thomas Keneally brings to existence the sizeable diversity 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 heritage to do complete justice to the wealthy and vibrant nature of our designated nationwide personality.

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron have been residing in her place of origin of Christchurch, New Zealand, while town was once struck by way of a significance 6. three earthquake, merely 5 months after a 7. 1 earthquake. whereas the 1st quake had prompted harm yet no fatalities, the second one grew to become 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 conflict. top Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded through Black energy 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 a huge effect on New Zealand lifestyles.

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

This publication contributes to the worldwide flip in First international struggle reviews through exploring Australians’ engagements with the clash throughout diversified obstacles and by means of situating Australian voices and views inside broader, extra complicated contexts. This various and multifaceted assortment contains chapters at the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial strength, the reviews of prisoners of struggle, nurses and purple go employees, the resonances of abroad occasions for Australians at domestic, and the cultural legacies of the battle via remembrance and illustration.