University of Queensland Press

  • Civil Rights

    Australians know very little about how Indigenous Australians came to gain the civil rights that other Australians had long taken for granted. One of the key reasons for this is…

    $28.95
  • Collected Stories Gillian Mears

    Gillian Mears is a courageous and strikingly original storyteller who has twice won Commonwealth Writers’ regional awards, as well as the coveted Vogel Award. Her early stories – from the…

    $27.95
  • Collected Stories Marion Halligan

    Marion Halligan has changed the landscape of short fiction in Australia, winning the coveted national Steele Rudd Award with her first collection, The Living Hothouse.Collected Stories gathers together fifty-five of…

    $27.95
  • Colonial Armidale

    It is through the stories of townspeople and their aspirations, achievements and foibles that this vivid history unfolds. Unconventional as well as rigorously researched, this is an engrossing and dramatic…

    $29.95
  • Cooloola Coast

    For the first time, a human and environmental history of this magnificent Heritage-listed region. The informative, narrative-based text covers natural history features, Aboriginal occupation and the crucial impact of white…

    $49.95
  • Dancing On Hot Macadam

    This is the first comprehensive study of one of the world’s most gifted and exciting writers. It follows Peter Carey’s career from the nightmare-haunted stories of The Fat Man in…

    $37.95
  • Federal Constitutions and Industrial Relations

    A comprehensive analysis of one of the most politically controversial issues in Australian law – the implementation of treaties by the federal government. Unique in Australian books on legal issues,…

    $37.95
  • Floating Lives

    This is a unique examination of media and communication within some of Australia’s main Asian diasporic groups – the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities. Going beyond the conventional cross-cultural…

    $37.95
  • French Explorers and Aboriginal Australians

    “[The Aboriginal Tasmanians] seem to offer the most perfect image of pristine society … Their open and smiling expression reveals a happiness that has never been troubled by intrusive thoughts…

    $41.95
  • Frontier Justice

    “Frontier Justice is a very powerful and important book. It appears at a particularly significant time given the intense current debate about Aboriginal history. It is essential reading for anyone…

    $41.95
  • Ghost Nation

    Written by a poet whose contribution to contemporary Australian poetry is renowned: The Ash Range (1987) and Selected Poems (1996) are among his better known poetry volumes. A vividly written…

    $27.95
  • Gwen Harwood Collected Poems

    This definitive collection is a bumper edition of over 600 pages of published and previously uncollected poems, many illuminated by the poet’s own notes. Harwood’s pseudonymous selves have made literary…

    $42.95