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A Dumping Ground
$43.95Cherbourg settlement was a home to many. But it was never the haven the Queensland government intended. By the end of the 19th century, at the height of Queensland’s Aboriginal…
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Against the Grain
$37.95This is the first comprehensive critical study of Beverley Farmer’s poetry, prose and criticism, in UQP’s long-running Studies in Australian Literature series. Jacobs studies Farmer’s work in relation to the…
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Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899
$99.95From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. The first known of these, Henry Melville’s The Bushrangers,…
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Australian Short Fiction
$37.95In this first extended study of Austrlaian short fiction, Bruce Bennett adopts Christina Stead’s metaphor of an ‘ocean of story’ to suggest the universality of storytelling, and the marks it…
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Black and White Together
$31.95In the l950s Australia considered itself “the land of the fair go”. However, this was not the experience of Indigenous Australians who were excluded from the vote, equal wages, education…
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Federal Constitutions and Industrial Relations
$37.95A 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,…
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Floating Lives
$37.95This 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…
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Frontier Justice
$41.95“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…
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Ghost Nation
$27.95Written 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…
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Her Sister’s Eye
$24.95‘… always remember where you’re from … ‘To the Aboriginal Famililes of Mundra this saying brings either comfort or pain. To Nana Vida it is what binds the generations. To…
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The Boy Adeodatus
$26.95Those who know Bernard Smith, scholar and interpreter of the visual arts, will rightly expect his autobiography to be unconventional. No one can help fail to find it extraordinarily moving.This…
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The Engine Room of Government
$55.95For 140 years the Premier’s Department and its predecessors have been at the heart of the government of Queensland. Its activities may have been invisible, its influence unrecognised and its…