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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 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... RRP: $18.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added First Nations Aviators The inaugural Royal Australian Air Force Oral Histories series publication, First Nations Aviators, will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added What If Histories of Australia An amusing look at the alternative paths that Australian history might have taken.The What If histories of Australia imagines a very different history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected ways. Starting by defining the real histories,... RRP: $15.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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