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Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
Category: Craft | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a way we have not seen since pre-industrial times. In Australia, practices of repair, invention, building, improvising and crafting, that take place in ...Show more
To Constitute a Nation - A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution by Helen Irving
Category: Fiction | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artifact. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is so ...Show more
To Kokoda (#14 Australian Army Campaigns) by Nick Anderson
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
When the Japanese war machine swept through South-East Asia in early 1942, it was inevitable that conflict would reach Australian territory on the island of New Guinea. The ultimate Japanese target was Port Moresby. Conquering the capital would sever communication between Australia and her American ally ...Show more
To Salamaua by Phillip Bradley
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Following on from his acclaimed book, The Battle for Wau, Phillip Bradley turns his attention to the Salamaua campaign - the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in the Second World War. Opening with the pivotal air-sea battle of the Bismarck Sea, this important title recounts the f ...Show more
To the Top End: Our Trip Across Australia by Roland Harvey (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Roland Harvey Australian Holidays Ser.
This fabulous Roland Harvey holiday book explores some of the most spectacular landscapes of Australia. Full of adventure, mishaps, and madcap activity, this is a hilarious, entertaining and delightful companion to At the Beach, In the Bush and In the City.
Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
Category: Picture Books | Series: Lothian Australian Favourites
Tom Kruse was a real Australian hero. He delivered the mail to outback stations and towns all along the Birdsville Track. It was a tough job, but Tom was even tougher, making sure that the mail got through no matter what. Based on her bestselling book, MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK, Kristin Weidenbach ...Show more
Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Lothian Australian Favou Ser.
Tom Kruse was a real Australian hero. He delivered the mail to outback stations and towns all along the Birdsville Track. It was a tough job, but Tom was even tougher, making sure that the mail got through no matter what. Based on her bestselling book, MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK, Kristin Weidenbach ...Show more
Trap: A Novel by Peter Mathers
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Australian Works
Trap (1966) won the Miles Franklin Literary Award when it was published. Its comic and satiric elements and use of several narrative voices provide revealing interpretations of cross-cultural relations, bureaucracy and politics in Australia.Peter Mathers was born in England in 1931 and came to Australia ...Show more
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more
Trump in Asia : Australian Foreign Affairs issue 2 by Jonathan Pearlman
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
'We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.' MICHAEL WESLEY The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Do ...Show more
Turning the Century: Writing of the 1890s by Lee Christopher (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Australian Authors Ser.
As we celebrate the Federation it is timely to reappraise the decade that produced our nation. A watershed period in Australian literature, the 1890s saw the emergence of a diverse set of social, cultural and political movements - feminist, labor, liberal, civic, imperial loyalist, regional, nationalist ...Show more