Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Every Australian Counts: The Birth of the NDIS by Michael Epis, Anita Phillips
$25.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
The NDIS has directly helped more than 600,000 Australians-and indirectly more than two million-vastly improving the lives of a group of people who had been left behind- people with disability. It is the most audacious and ambitious piece of social architecture since Medicare. With its beginnings in the ...Show more
Imaginative Possession: Learning to live in the Antipodes by Belinda Probert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Seeking ways to understand her chosen continent better, Belinda Probert bought a rural property outside of Melbourne to observe the land more closely and learn how to garden differently.How do we understand a country?At a time when many easy assumptions about how we live and how our society functions ar ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Justice
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...Show more
Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Sarah Holland-Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados. Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's c ...Show more
Full Circle: A Search for the World That Comes Next by Scott Ludlam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It's getting late. We have to get moving. A scorched eucalyptus leaf twirls out of a clear sky, a premonition that begins a journey into a world on the edge. In Full Circle, Scott Ludlam draws on his unique experience as senator and activist. Travelling the world, he discovers an emerging post-capitalis ...Show more
Gentle and Fierce by Vanessa Berry
$26.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9. Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the author’s attitudes and her sense of self. Having spent ...Show more
Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Long before Ruhi fell pregnant, she knew she was never going to be the 'good Indian daughter' her parents demanded. But when the discovery that she is having a girl sends her into a slump of disappointment, it becomes clear she's getting weighed down by emotional baggage that needs to be unpacked, quick ...Show more