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  • Notorious Australian Women

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    The sensational lives and exploits of twenty audacious, brash and scandalous women, now in an all-new format.NOtORIOUS AUStRALIAN WOMEN celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women. there's tilly Devine, who went from streetwalker in London to wealthy Sydney madam and standover merchant; Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped by ... Read more

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    The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland 1824–1916

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    Series series Pacific Studies series
    Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland's Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

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  • Deadly Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Meet the women who have murdered - they've killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. they include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of ... Read more

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  • Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920

    Edited by Kay Saunders ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire
    First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many ... Read more

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  • Monash: The fascinating life of the WWI soldier who shaped modern Australia from the bestselling award winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY and HUDSON FYSH

    Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. Just four months earlier, the commander of the Australian Corps had been knighted in a ... Read more

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  • CWA Stories

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  • In the Quiet

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  • The First Fleet

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    An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia.'Engaging and revealing ... like a torchlight shone from an unexpected angle' Geoffrey Blainey, Weekend AustralianFresh ... Read more

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