Mary Gaudron was the first female justice to serve on the High Court of Australia, that country's most powerful court. This biography recounts the formative events that shaped Gaudron's life and caree
Do We risk crashing our economy by tackling climate change? Should we stop eating chocolate for the good of the planet? How did cheap petrol become so expensive? And what's the real story behind Austr
Julia has suddenly lost her husband and, along with him, her will to live. The vital, energetic old woman that her daughter Kati thought she knew has disappeared almost overnight. How is Kati to cope
Since 70% of city infrastructure in 2050 already exists today, Boomtown 2050 opens up an essential debate as to how we transform rather than rebuild our cities to meet the twin pressures of populatio
Although she started writing early in life, it was not until her fifties that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year Award on three occasions
Before the arrival of Europeans, a huge swath of Australia around what is now Perth was the homeland of the Noongar people. With the onset of colonization, that land was lost and the Noongar culture (
The 1896 gold rush in Western Australia drew a young photographer, John Joseph Dwyer (1869-1928). Settling in the town of Kalgoorlie, he charted the rise and decline of the Goldfields. Goldswain (arch
The Imago presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E.L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century shaped his later years as a novelist.
Lines for Birds is an explosion of lush images in art and poetry - a rich collaboration between two distinguished artists: painter John Wolseley and poet Barry Hill, both long captivated by nature's u
Dorothy Hewett spent her childhood on a remote wheat and sheep farm in Wickepin, Western Australia. Her adult life in Perth and Sydney was involved in the tumult of politics and writing. As a leading
`Although all the contributors to this book are to varying degrees critical of Israel's and Hamas' conduct before and during the war, that criticism is incidental to the main purpose of the book whic
`Let's promote all artforms-the ephemeral as well as the solid and saleable-for all the things our people do as creative individuals to stimulate our brains and our own individual and collective creat
In this volume concerning the comparative study of colonial cartography, Australia and southern Africa have been selected by Etherington (history, U. of Western Australia) as focal points because of l
