Australians All

Author : Nadia Wheatley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741156041
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australians All written by Nadia Wheatley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I love history because it is story, but the very best thing about this story is that it is not finished. All of us are making history every moment of our lives.' Nadia Wheatley Australians All encompasses the history of our continent from the Ice Age to the Apology, from the arrival of the First Fleet to the Mabo Judgement. Brief accounts of the lives of real young Australians open up this chronological narrative. Some of the subjects of the eighty mini-biographies have become nationally or even internationally famous. Others were legends in their own families and communities. Meticulously researched, beautifully written and highly readable, Australians All helps us understand who we are, and how we belong to the land we all share. It also shows us who we might be. 'In Australian histories there is a particular group whose tales and presence and concerns are rarely narrated. These are the children and adolescents. They are depicted as mute sufferers of the decisions of elders (as were the children of the Depression), helpless victims of policy (the Stolen Generations) and the children of the Second World War (of whom I was one). They appear in most writing of history as mere passive accessories to what adults do. But their stories are our stories too, and their stories are our history, and Nadia Wheatley, that great writer, tells that wide-ranging story in a way so imaginative and colourful that it would attract any young person, and make young readers feel that many of their personal struggles have been faced before, by children of the past and present. Nadia has performed an essential service to history and the young.' - Thomas Keneally

Author : A B Paterson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1743098367
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We're All Australians Now written by A B Paterson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're All Australians Now follows the tradition of other A & R children's classics such as Mulga Bill's Bicycle and Click Go the Shears with the poem "We're All Australians Now" by A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson illustrated by the award-winning Mark Wilson. In 1915, Australia's much-loved bush poet Banjo Paterson wrote, as an open letter to the troops, a poem he titles 'We're All Australians Now'. In this beautifully illustrated picture book, award-winning illustrator Mark Wilson evokes the spirit of Paterson's words in memory of those who fought in World War One. PRAISE FOR WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS NOW 'Multi-talented illustrator Mark Wilson has taken this poem and created this outstanding version of We're All Australians Now in picture book format. Wilson's clever collage layouts of sketches and oil paintings brilliantly bring this poem to life by showing us a reflection of everyday life in 1915' -- Reading Time

Author : Bruce Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922142436
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.

Author : Rachel Perkins
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522859542
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Australians written by Rachel Perkins and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals—both black and white—caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1992 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation. Note: This is the unillustrated version ofFirst Australians.

Author : Josephine Flood
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741159628
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Australians written by Josephine Flood and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts Aboriginal history, from earliest prehistory to today, and details their survival through the millennia, to the stolen children issue.

Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
ISBN 13 : 9780522849790
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab-Australians Today written by Ghassan Hage and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest and most established of its immigrant ethnic communities. Together, the various works brought together here cover most aspects of Arab–Australian lives that are of importance today: the history of settlement, attitudes about citizenship, Arab women’s activism, Arab antiracism activism, the position of Arab youth between two cultures, nostalgia and homesickness, everyday life in an Arab “ethnic” suburb, and questions of identity.

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458762963
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by John Hirst and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an Australian national character? What are its distinguishing features? Over the years, how have insiders and outsiders summed up this country and its people, and how have Australians responded to outside criticism? In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism. There is humour and insight. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Ned Kelly, Tim Flannery, Henry Lawson, Peter Cosgrove, Germaine Greer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, David Malouf, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Patrick White, Oscar Wilde and Tim Winton.

Author : Matthew C. Gray
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1920942149
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians written by Matthew C. Gray and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and hygienes; Health services; Medical care; Costs; Aboriginal australians; Torres strait islanders; Australia.

Author : Heather Hammonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420276459
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mac Australia Topics: Australians all written by Heather Hammonds and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians All looks at many aspects of Australias diverse communities. We are a country of many different cultures living happily alongside one another. Indigenous Australians have been here for more than 60,000 years. Since the last decades of the 1700s there have been waves of new settlers from scores of countries-- from Britainto China, Italy to India, Greece to Somalia. New arrivals have added to Australian culture by bringing with them their food, music, religion and language to sha

Author : James Bonwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astronomy for Young Australians written by James Bonwick and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: