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Beyond the ladies' lounge: Australia's female publicans
By Clare Alice Wright. 2003
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic…
presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's first female licensee, to Big Poll the Grog Seller, the miners' darling on the goldfields, to Cheryl Barassi and Dawn Fraser today. Weaving oral history interviews, archival sources, folk songs, bush ballads and other popular literature throughout the narrative, this book exposes the remarkable visibility and dominance of women in Australian hotelkeeping culture.Two centuries of panic: a history of corporate collapses in Australia
By Trevor Sykes. 1988
Rich in sensation and scandal, this is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia, from the first…
bank closure in the 1820s, through the four great depressions, up to the collapse of the House of Gollin.The time of their lives!
By Keith Smith. 1993
Australia's second chance: what our history tells us about our future
By George Megalogenis. 2017
Most nations don’t get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the…
nineteenth century, Australia was the world’s richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we’re back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world’s great nations? Showing that our future is in our foundation, Australia’s Second Chance goes back to 1788, the first contact between locals and migrants, to bring us a unique and fascinating view of the key events of our past right through to the present day.Let the land speak: a history of Australia : how the land shaped our nation
By Jackie French. 2013
To understand the present, you need to understand the past. To understand Australia's history, you need to look at how…
the land has shaped not just our past, but will continue to shape our future. From highly respected, award-winning author Jackie French comes a new and fascinating interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than social forces, shaped the major events that led to modern Australia. Our history is mostly written by those who live, work and research in cities, but it's the land itself which has shaped our history far more powerfully and significantly than we realise. Reinterpreting the history we think we all know - from the indigenous women who shaped the land, from Terra Incognita to Eureka, from Federation to Gallipoli and beyond, Jackie French shows us that to understand our history, we need to understand our land. Taking us behind history and the accepted version of events, she also shows us that there's so much we don't understand about our history because we simply don't understand the way life was lived at the time.The rise and fall of Gunns Ltd
By Quentin Beresford. 2015
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of one billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the…
largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans. Its collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire. He shows it was built on close relationships with state and federal governments, political donations and use of the law to intimidate and silence its critics. Gunns may have been single-minded in its pursuit of a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, but it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of power supported by both main parties, business and unions. Simmering opposition to Gunns and all it stood for ramped up into an environmental campaign not seen since the Franklin Dam protests. Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.Victorian gold rushes
By Weston Bate. 1988
The climb: conversations with Australian women in power
By Geraldine Doogue. 2014
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we,…
as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, politics, religion, education and the armed forces, Doogue gets to the heart of what it means to be a woman in power in Australia. Inspiring and insightful, The Climb reveals a varied and at times quite unexpected picture of contemporary Australia.In praise of ageing
By Patricia Edgar. 2013
Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes aged eighty-eight. And Muriel Crabtree, whose exhibition of pastels was…
opened by the governor-general shortly after Crabtree died aged 102. Australians are staying healthy and living longer than ever before. Yet rather than focusing on the productive, rich, varied lives older people lead we dwell on the burden of ageing. In Praise of Ageing tells the stories of eight people who have lived well into their nineties and beyond. These people will inspire you, entertain you and motivate you to be connected, interested, risk-taking and inventive. They will challenge your preconceptions. And they will convince you that fifty is now the start of the second half of life and not the beginning of the end.Whistleblowers
By Quentin Dempster. 1997
We have all heard of the whistleblower - the lone person who decides that enough is enough, and that they…
must speak out. But what motivates them? What do they go through to expose an issue? How do they deal with their employer, or the authority they are confronting? What are the ramifications - for both employer and individual? In this carefully considered and researched book, the author deals with all these issues.Sojourners: the epic story of China's centuries-old relationship with Australia
By Eric C Rolls. 1992
The Chinese were among the first visitors to Australia, beginning a centuries-old relationship characterised by lively incidents and a clash…
of civilisations. 'Sojourners' covers not only the history of the Chinese in Australia, including the goldrush and the resulting racism, but also a detailed account of their culture, health and food.Mud, sweat & snow: memories of Snowy workers 1949-1959
By Noel Gough. 1998
This book is a recollection of memorable insights into the living and working conditions of the Snowy Mountain Scheme, written…
by one of the employees. It is an interesting and lively account of the early days of the scheme.Let evening come: reflections on aging
By Mary C Morrison. 1998
In this daring yet gently written reflection on aging, eighty-seven-year-old Mary C. Morrison considers the sources of strength and dignity…
that truly allow people to grow old gracefully, and to retain a joy for life. Morrison writes about the process of aging with humour and sensitivity. She does not ignore the difficulties that old age brings, but instead emphasizes the benefits of peace, balance, and perspective that come with it. She shows how the gradual movement away from the center of work, family, and community can be a blessing in disguise and how one can feel renewed, instead of made powerless, by old age. The diminishments of age and its real afflictions are treated openly and courageously.Sixtysomething: a positive handbook for the third age of life
By Joan Gomez. 1993
A guide to the "Third age", from 60 onwards. With 20-30 years ahead of you this book proves that, far…
from dreading what lies ahead, you can look forward to a most fascinating, rewarding phase in your life, with the freedom to enjoy it to the full.The fountain of age
By Betty Friedan. 1993
In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan demolishes the traditional myths of aging and offers compelling alternatives for…
living one's own age as a unique period of life, on its own authentic terms - age as adventure!Ageing: the facts
By William Davison, Stephen Webster, Nicholas Coni. 1992
This book offers information on the physical, mental and sociological aspects of ageing and is a practical, helpful manual for…
coping with the problems and the pleasures of growing old, and gives advice to those who care for older people. Political and demographic changes and advances in medical knowledge are also discussed.A world waiting to be born: civility rediscovered
By M. Scott Peck. 1993
We live in a deeply ailing society and our illness is incivility; morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness and…
materialism. Dr. Peck argues that we can learn to restore civility to ourselves and our institutions - that we can make the spiritual commitment that is a cornerstone of civility.The end of equality: work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
By Anne Summers. 2003
Among the most contentious issues Australia faces at the beginning of the 21st century is one that many thought had…
been dealt with in the '70s: the condition of Australian women. Debate still rages over their position in the workplace, their alleged failure to 'breed' sufficiently, their lack of true economic equality, and their inability to penetrate in any real numbers the proverbial glass ceilings in corporate and public life. What happened to the so-called feminist revolution? Why do most women feel exhausted and trapped? Is there real choice in women's lives today?The undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade
By Thomas Lynch. 1997
Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly…
unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release. He is also a man of sardonic wit, uncovering humor where we least thought to find it--in our fear of and fascination with death.