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Outside the law: Australian true crime stories
By Andrew Rule, John Silvester. 2006
This revised, expanded collection of true crime by Australia's foremost crime writers digs beneath the polite exterior of modern Australian…
life to expose its chilling core. It details the exploits of criminal families and examines the gene of pure evil that drives maniacs to randomly kill. It explores the effect of crime on innocent victims caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, the contribution made by police who put their lives on the line every day, and salutes the private individuals who stand up and fight back. Stories include: John Silvester on Donald MacKay and the Australian Mafia; Andrew Rule on the Queen Street Massacre; Malcolm Brown on Ivan Milat; Vikki Petraitis on serial killer Paul Denyer; Jennifer Cooke on the Anita Cobby murder; Murray Mottram on the senseless killing of a taxi driver by teenagers; Greg Fogarty on the Crawford murders and Greg Linnell on the life of an undercover cop.Wired: Undercover In The Underworld
By Damian Marrett. 2007
At the age of 23, Damian Marrett was recruited to work as an undercover operative for the Victorian police force.…
For over six years, he brushed shoulders and knocked heads with the lowest of Australia's low. In Wired, his third volume of undercover memoirs, Marrett befriends and betrays a volatile cocaine dealer, out-cons a conman with an extortion plan, and has his cover blown after tangling with a well-connected Melbourne underworld identity. On a stage where one careless word can cost a life, Marrett comes out the other end with his humour and dignity intact. And only a little bit wired...Last woman hanged: the terrible, true story of Louisa Collins
By Caroline Overington. 2016
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in New South Wales. In January 1889,…
Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The Crown was convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic and, to the horror of many in the legal community, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction. Louisa protested her innocence until the end. This book delves into the archives to re-examine the original, forensic reports, court documents, judges notebooks, witness statements and police and gaol records, in an effort to discover the truth. Much of the evidence against Louisa was circumstantial. Some of the most important testimony was given by her only daughter, May, who was just 10-years-old when asked to take the stand. The historical context is also important: Louisa Collins was hanged at a time when women were in no sense equal under the law - except when it came to the gallows. Women could not vote or stand for parliament - or sit on juries. There were no female politicians and no women judges. Against this background, a small group of women rose up to try to save Louisa's life, arguing that a legal system comprised only of men - male judges, all-male jury, male prosecutor, governor and Premier - could not with any integrity hang a woman. The tenacity of these women would not save Louisa but it would ultimately carry women from their homes all the way to Parliament House. Less than 15 years after Louisa was hanged, Australian women would become some of the first in the world to get the vote. They would take seats in State parliament, and in Canberra. They would become doctors, lawyers, judges, premiers - even the Prime Minister.The straight dope: the inside story of sport's biggest drug scandal
By Chip Le Grand. 2016
The greatest drugs scandal in Australian sport goes well beyond who took what. What happened at Essendon, what happened at…
Cronulla, is only part of the story. From the basement office of a suburban football club to the seedy corners of Peptide Alley to the polished corridors of Parliament House, The Straight Dope is an inside account of the politics, greed and personal feuds which fuelled an extraordinary saga. Clubs and coaches determined to win, a sports scientist who doesn't play by the rules, a generation of footballers injected with who knows what, sport administrators hell bent on control, an anti-doping authority out of its depth, an unpopular government that just wants it to end ... for three years until the final, crushing judgement handed down by an international tribunal, this was the biggest game in Australia.In October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was found buried in the backyard of Sarah and John Makin, two wretchedly…
poor baby farmers in inner Sydney. In the weeks that followed, 12 more babies were found buried in the backyards of other houses in which the Makins had lived. This resulted in the most infamous trial in Australian legal history, and exposed a shocking underworld of desperate mothers, drugged and starving babies, and a black market in the sale and murder of children. Annie Cossins pieces together a dramatic and tragic tale with larger-than-life characters: theatrical Sarah Makin, her smooth-talking husband John, her disloyal daughter, Clarice, diligent Constable James Joyce with curious domestic arrangements of his own, and a network of baby farmers stretching across the city. It's a glimpse into a society that preferred to turn a blind eye to the fate of its most vulnerable members, only a century ago.Now: sometimes the end of the race is only the beginning
By Anna Meares, Reece Homfray. 2020
From 2004 to 2016, Anna Meares was one of Australia's greatest and most popular Olympians, a winner of two gold…
medals and medals at four Olympics. She overcame a broken neck to win silver at the 2008 Beijing Games. She is an inspiration not just because of her sporting achievements, but for way she answered the potentially debilitating question faced by all retiring athletes: What happens now? Anna confronted personal crises, including the death of her coach from motor neurone disease and a marriage breakup, and learned plenty as she first stumbled but now strides down a bright path. She has a new career, is happy in her personal life and is the mother of a baby daughter. Her sporting life is only part of this story. Her recent wins have added a new dimension to what has been a remarkable life.The quickest way round is on the bitumen: the history of the Oran Park Circuit
By Neville Beyer. 2019
Written to tell the story of the development of the Oran Park Motor Racing Circuit from 1962 to 2010 and…
the stories from the background, focusing on the people behind the scenes rather than the well documented racing results. It was written as a tribute to the thousands of volunteers who made the action possible and as a reminder of just how Motor Racing in Australia had changed and evolved.Play like a pro: what the 50 greatest players can teach you
By Edward Craig. 2007
Golf participation is at an all-time high, with 37.9 million active players in the U.S. alone. Here's an ingenious way…
for weekend players to improve their game by learning from the pros. For example, though you may never drive the ball as far as Tiger Woods, you're sure to increase your distance if you learn to think like he does at the tee. Each section is devoted to one aspect of the game and built around a player famous for his or her mastery of that area: Tiger for driving, Greg Norman for hitting a draw, Phil Mickelson for making the perfect flop shot, and so on. More than 50 great players provide inspiring examples to help any golfer play better.Stronger and bolder: inside the 2019 finals series with Richmond
By Konrad Marshall. 2019
Tells the intimate story of the Richmond Football Club through the highs and lows of its 2019 finals campaign, explaining…
how the club recovered from its disappointment of 2018. With unprecedented access to club officials, players and coaches, author Konrad Marshall takes the reader inside the rooms at the key moments of the campaign, chronicling the Tigers' journey to AFL football's Holy Grail. This is not just a book of wins and losses, it's the story of a professional football club and how it operates at every level: from the fitness staff, to the coaching panel, the players, and the Board. The Richmond Football Club has continued to change enormously following the 2017 triumph, its first Premiership since 1980, and Marshall explains in detail the enormous amount of work and thought that has gone into every decision made--on and off the field.Game for anything: writings on cricket
By Gideon Haigh. 2004
Cricket is serious fun. And no one writes about cricket with deeper knowledge or greater flair than Gideon Haigh. Game…
for Anything collects his best work of the last decade: from probing the Bradman myth and evaluating C.L.R. James to celebrating Len Pascoe and suffering being hit for six. To cricket's recent torments - match-fixing, throwing, sledging, politics - he brings fresh insights and an irreverent wit.Ten years: an incredible true story of corruption, injustice and the triumph of the human spirit
By Amy Willesee, Mark Whittaker, Roseanne Catt. 2005
Falsely accused with attempting to murder her husband, this is the horrifying true story of how an innocent woman came…
to be one of the longest-serving female prisoners in New South Wales and her fight for justice. It is a story of corruption and brutality - both inside and outside of jail that will appal and outrage and a story of Roseanne's extraordinary courage.They cannot take the sky
By Michael Green, Angelica Neville, Andrea Dao, Dana Affleck, Sienna Merope. 2017
For more than two decades, Australia has locked up people who arrive here fleeing persecution - sometimes briefly, sometimes for…
years. In They Cannot Take the Sky those people tell their stories, in their own words. Speaking from inside immigration detention on Manus Island and Nauru, or from within the Australian community after their release, the narrators reveal not only their extraordinary journeys and their daily struggles but also their meditations on love, death, hope and injustice. Their candid testimonies are at times shocking and hilarious, surprising and devastating. They are witnesses from the edge of human experience.The first-person narratives in They Cannot Take the Sky range from epic life stories to heartbreaking vignettes. The narrators who have shared their stories have done so despite the culture of silence surrounding immigration detention, and the real risks faced by those who speak out. Once you have heard their voices, you will never forget them.White limbo: the first Australian climb of Mt Everest
By Lincoln Hall. 1985
The author chronicles the mountaineering hazards and joys experienced by the first four Australians on Everest. Menaced constantly by avalanches…
and treacherous ice, they also suffered altitude intoxication, which made the author foolishly jump a bottomless crevasse.No job for a girl
By Susan Swaney. 1993
When the author set up a veterinary practice in Western Victoria, there was resistance because she was a woman and…
there was the rugged climate to get used to. This is a diary of twelve months in the author's life as a vet, farmer and mother.Shearers' motel
By Roger McDonald. 1992
Set in the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback, Roger McDonald cooks for a team of New…
Zealand shearers travelling through N.S.W., S.A. and Victoria and searches for a sense of belonging.Something for nothing (Lachie Munro #1)
By Andy Muir. 2017
It’s not every day a bloke stumbles on a dismembered torso on Nobby’s Beach. Lachie Munro is starting to feel…
like he’s is a magnet for trouble. The day before he fished a giant haul of heroin out of his favourite abalone poaching spot near Newcastle.There’s a better than even chance that the two are connected and he should leave well enough alone. But the opportunity to clear his gambling debt and get ahead of the game is too good to pass up. But how do you sell several kilos of heroin? It’s not like drug dealers are listed in the Yellow Pages. And what happens when the owners come looking for their missing package? Is the torso a warning to anyone thinking of crossing them? Now a person of interest to the police, Lachie needs to stay one step ahead of them, a local bikie he’s managed to insult, play off a big time dealer from Sydney, placate the neighbour’s labrador, Horace, and win the heart of the gorgeous new Fisheries Officer he’s fallen for. Or will he discover that getting into the gun sights of the crooked, the dodgy and the downright shady characters of Newcastle and beyond is more than a man can handle. But, if Lachie can pull it all off, he might just get Something for Nothing.Killer Koala: Humorous Aussie Short Stories
By Kenneth Cook. 1986
In "The Killer Koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.Empire, war, tennis and me
By Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.