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Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
$29.95 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Biography Ser.
WINNER OF 2019 NONFICTION PM'S PRIZE Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. Fostered by celebrated Australian literary cou ...Show more
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Biography Ser.
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more
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