Australia + Australian history

Book Reviews

• Susan Blackburn: Practical Visionaries
  A Study of Community Aid Abroad
• The Budawang Committee: Pigeon House and Beyond
  A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
• Bill Bunbury: Rabbits and Spaghetti
  Captives and Comrades: Australians, Italians and the War
• Wally Caruana: Aboriginal Art*
  - brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
• Peter Coleman: Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition
  The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia
• Christopher Dickman: A Fragile Balance**
  The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
• Graham J. Edgar: Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters*
  - an elegant ecological overview
• Keith Farrer: To Feed a Nation
  A history of Australian food science and technology
• Alan Garner: Strandloper**
  - an Australian convict escapes and joins the Aborigines
• Kaye Healey: Censorship
  - an Australian school resource
• David Johnson: The Geology of Australia*
  - an excellent introduction for the lay reader
• Margaret J. Kartomi: The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It
  An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
• Judith Keene: The Last Mile to Huesca
  An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
• Alan McKee, et al.: The Porn Report
  - the production and consumption of pornography in Australia
• Glen McLaren: Beyond Leichhardt
  Bushcraft and the Exploration of Australia
• Luke McNamara: Regulating Racism
  Racial Vilification Laws in Australia
• Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper: Soul of the Desert*
  - botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
• Ray Parkin: H.M. Bark Endeavour
  - her voyage up the east coast of Australia
• Michael Pollak: Sense and Censorship
  Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
• Jan Ryan: Ancestors
  Chinese in Colonial Australia
• Richard Shine: Australian Snakes*
  A Natural History
• Max Solling: Grandeur and Grit
  A History of Glebe
• Tony Swain: A Place for Strangers
  Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
• Tyrone Thomas, Sven Klinge: Australian Mountains
  The Best 100 Walks
• Barbara Triggs: The Wombat
  Common Wombats in Australia
• Helen Vnuk: Snatched
  Sex and Censorship in Australia
• Brian Walters: Slapping on the Writs
  Defamation, Developers and Community Activism
• Eric K. Webb: Windows on Meteorology*
  Australian Perspective
• Mary E. White: After the Greening**
  - a geological and botanical history of Australia
• Arena Magazine
  - a journal of Australian politics and current affairs

See also: New Zealand | Oceania

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