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  • Preparations for Departure
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    Preparations for Departure

    "Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot...
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  • Communists Like Us
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    Communists Like Us

    Communists like us is simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love?...
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  • A Personal History of Vision
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    A Personal History of Vision

    A Personal History of Vision expands on the concerns of Fischer's acclaimed first collection Paths of Flight and embodies what Judith Beveridge has described as his 'seemingly effortless ability to blend visual detail and imaginative vision.'...
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    The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky
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    The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky

    Zwicky is one of the world's finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the personal encounter with the weight of history and the obligation...
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  • Gularabulu
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    Gularabulu

    A groundbreaking presentation, in a revised edition, of Indigenous Australian storytelling as it actually sounds; these stories provide a fascinating picture of the life of the people of the west Kimberley after colonisation. Paddy Roe was a legendary...
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    Indigenous Archives
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    Indigenous Archives

    In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous communities understood...
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    North of the Border

    'I love this state do not get me wrong. I love Queensland to bits. I don't want to live anywhere else in the world. But at that time we were four million years behind everything else, everyone else.'- LYN FRASERSince the end of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen...
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    Noongar Bush Medicine
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    Noongar Bush Medicine

    Noongar Bush Medicine provides for the first time a comprehensive information on the the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the south-west of Western Australia before European settlement. The book is a guide to how to use plants for...
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    Family Skeleton
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    Family Skeleton

    From inside her Toorakmansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund RiceO'Day of O'Day Funerals, secretly surveys her familyin the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, isoblivious to the secrets that...
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    Unstable Relations
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    Unstable Relations

    The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent...
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    Writing to the Wire
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    Writing to the Wire

    Surely we are better than this?The seeking of asylum in Australia has beenpoliticised in recent decades. Our national conversation hasvilified people fleeing persecution and desensitised the Australianpolity to human suffering...
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    Ink in Her Veins
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    Ink in Her Veins

    Aileen Palmer poet, translator, political activist, adventurer was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as...
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    Helen Grey-Smith
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    Helen Grey-Smith

    Told in the artist's own words via a series of interviews, this revealing biography of Helen Grey-Smith examines the dignified artist's fascinating life. In this book author Gwen Phillips gives us the rare opportunity to listen to an artist speaking...
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    The Unknown Judith Wright
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    The Unknown Judith Wright

    Judith Wright (19152000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionised Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a...
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  • Either, Orpheus
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    Either, Orpheus

    "Dan Disney's highly original either, Orpheus remakes the villanelle. The'sound-swarms' in this contemporary 'orphic' work riff laterally on receivedpoetic and philosophical ideas and incorporate fascinating shreds of thinkingand saying. Rainer Maria...
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  • Burnt Umber
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    Burnt Umber

    "In this expansive and excitingcollection Hetherington moves with power and grace through an impressiverange of form and content. The poems burst with tense anddetailed images shot through with meditations on grief absence and...
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    Unexpected Clearing
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    Unexpected Clearing

    "Rhythm and patternfollow with precision the rich tonality of Lucas's visual andaural perceptions delivered with just enough tension to allow aline to run free or a word to drop and hang alone where it dances or stops" Amanda...
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    Book of Thistles
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    Book of Thistles

    Some plants have sustained empires and sparked wars. Some have ignited public outrage. Think tea, opium, tulips and thistles. Yes, thistles. In 1852 South Australia passed its Thistle Act, probably the first weed control legislation anywhere in the world...
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    Cloudless
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    Cloudless

    It's a still, hot summer in Perth, only heat shimmying off the city's glass buildings, and not much to do but surrender to the cool of Beatty Park pools. The locals are out in full force: teenagers flirting, even the ragtag kids from the refuge.But...
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    Every Mother's Son is Guilty
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    Every Mother's Son is Guilty

    In Every Mother's Son is Guilty, Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth's controversial Royal Commission into the treatment...
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    Behind Glass Doors

    The hours were demanding but the pay was good. And the boozy lunches were even better. Australia's advertising agencies enjoyed their reputation as a glamorous and fun place to work. Not surprisingly, many of the nation's brightest and most creative...
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    A Journey Travelled
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    A Journey Travelled

    This is a pivotal story long overdue for the telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other following the British territorial invasion of 1826 for the next hundred years.There has always been a wealth of documentary and oral...
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    Mick
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    Mick

    Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after...
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    Running Out?
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    Running Out?

    For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia's west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water - a fear that has long gripped the region's inhabitants and loomed...
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    Desert Writing
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    Desert Writing

    In September 2013 just before the weatherturned even more intense a group of intrepid writers made their wayto three Australian desert settings to work with groups and individualswishing to write. Both Aboriginal people with a...
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    Fire and Hearth
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    Fire and Hearth

    Professor Sylvia J. Hallam FAHA has written a substantial Afterword to accompany a facsimile edition of her classic work from 1975, Fire and Hearth. In the light of considerable interest in this subject we are thrilled to release this work of...
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    A Woman of Influence
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    A Woman of Influence

    Written from the late years of an extraordinary life, Ann Moyal's biography is a spirited narrative of her career as an eminent historian of Australian science and technology, her three marriages, travelling the globe, the people she has encountered, and...
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    Fugitive History
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    Fugitive History

    In a rush of remembrance that seemed longer than my own life, I recognised that was who we are, that there was a term for it, for our family Aboriginal. At that point I began the long process of trying to understand what had happened that we had almost...
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    Out of Place (Gwalia)
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    Out of Place (Gwalia)

    This collection of essays explores historical, geographical and cultural factors that contribute to our understanding of places and settings of Australian transient communities. From Gwalia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Charters Towers in...
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    Wanarn Painters of Place and Time
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    Wanarn Painters of Place and Time

    This exquisite art book contains the precious story and transformative work of celebrated artists now living in an aged care facility in Ngaanyatjarra country, a remote and isolated community that is the centre of their abundant world amongst ancient...
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    Food of the Southern Forests
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    Food of the Southern Forests

    You may not have heard much about the Southern Forests, but you've probably been eating fresh food grown in this region your whole life. Well-known Western Australian chef Sophie Zalokar (from the popular Foragers Field Kitchen & Cooking School in...
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    Yira Boornak Nyininy
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    Yira Boornak Nyininy

    Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his Wadjela friend to help him back down. Yira Boornak Nyininy is a story of forgiveness and friendship.This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the...
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    Dwoort Baal Kaat
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    Dwoort Baal Kaat

    A man goes hunting for some tucker with a pack of dogs, but he doesn't get what he expected... Dwoort Baal Kaat is the story of how two different animals are related to one another.This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People...
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  • The Bauhinia Tree
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    The Bauhinia Tree

    With deep roots in the Kimberley region, Olive Knight shares her story of growing up with the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of north-western Australia. As the daughter of a half-caste father, she was nearly killed on the day of her birth, as was...
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  • A Boy's Short Life
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    A Boy's Short Life

    Warren Braedon, named by his adoptive parents Louis St John Johnson, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Told he had been abandoned, Louis's adoptive parents, Bill and Pauline Johnson raised him in a loving family in...
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    Crimson Crop
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    Crimson Crop

    Crimson Crop is Peter Rose's fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several about his late father Bob Rose (a respected Australian Rules footballer and coach), thus continuing the themes of his...
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    Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education
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    Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education

    The revised edition of Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education takes a fresh look at the challenges and achievements that have occurred in this important area since the book's original release in 2003. Interest in Aboriginal education has increased...
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    Theo & Co. Take 2
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    Theo & Co. Take 2

    After the phenomenal success of his first cookbook, Theo and Co: The Search for the Perfect Pizza (2008), World Pizza Champion Theo Kalogeracos takes to the road to continue his search for the perfect pizza - this time as far and wide as the USA. With...
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    Australia's Asia
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    Australia's Asia

    To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of...
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    Mamang
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    Mamang

    Mamang was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. From a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931 and...
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    Noongar Mambara Bakitj
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    Noongar Mambara Bakitj

    Noongar Mambara Bakitj was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Inspired by a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western...
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    On Rabbits, Morality, Etc.
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    On Rabbits, Morality, Etc.

    Walter Murdoch, a popular broadcaster and public speaker, was one of Australia's bestselling twentieth-century authors. He published weekly essays in The Argus and other newspapers and his books sold in their tens of thousands. Complete with a Foreword...
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    Francis Webb
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    Francis Webb

    Francis Webb (19251973) grew up in North Sydney with his paternal grandparents, who encouraged his love of music, books and the sea. In 1942, during his final year of secondary school, his writing first appeared in the Bulletin, which led to friendships...
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    Ours As We Play It
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    Ours As We Play It

    Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three Shakespearean plays; exploring...
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    Give the Bastards Hell
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    Give the Bastards Hell

    In New Guinea’s jungles, a fierce battle turned the tide of the Pacific War—the first major land defeat for the unstoppable Japanese forces.By mid-August 1942, Imperial Japanese forces dominated the Southeast Asian and Pacific theatres, seemingly...
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    One Free Woman
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    One Free Woman

    These women are twice convicted, and among them are no doubt some of the most depraved of their sex. -- James Backhouse.Hannah Rigby was a poor Liverpool seamstress, a prisoner and a serial thief. Exiled from her homeland, oppressed by poverty and rigid...
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