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From Roadside to Recovery The Story of the Victorian State Accident Commision by Peter Bragge & Russell Gruen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly. By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This extraordinary achievement is the product of sustaine ...Show more
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Eleanor Dark (1901-85) is one of Australia's most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark's contributi ...Show more
The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy by Vince Scappatura
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Australian Studies
Australian society and its leaders generally take for granted the importance and value of this nations relationship with the United States. The US is commonly thought of as the worlds great purveyor of liberal values and the rule of law, and as a powerful friend indispensable to Australian security. In ...Show more
Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
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Category: Australian | 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
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History by Darrell Lewis
$39.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Australian studies
The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in W ...Show more
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