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New Zealand's Vietnam War by Ian McGibbon
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Ian McGibbon [Ian McGibbon]

Moya McTamney’s role (and that of Mandy Harrison and Adrienne Lattimore, who would follow her in later teams) was to attend to the general health conditions of the refugees, most ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Bill Marsh

Just Like a Sentence I grew up in the Gulf country of Queensland where we lived on a cattle station four mile out of Normanton. When I say ‘cattle station’ ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Whispers and Vanities by Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni

194 This was published as Macpherson, C. & Macpherson, L. (1990). Samoan Medical Belief and Practice. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. 195 In fact, the project took so long ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Australia's Boldest Experiment by Stuart MacIntyre
epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Stuart MacIntyre

Demobilisation was the first of the steps that Trevor Swan identified at the end of hostilities and he thought it would require measures to guard against the ‘immediate displacement consequences’. ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 4,2023 )
Crossing the Floor by Helen Leahy
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Leahy

Despite Tariana’s words of caution, it was only a matter of hours before that same debate exploded. As it turned out, one of my aunties had died in Taupō, and ...
( Category: Oceania January 3,2023 )
The Honest History Book by David Stephens
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:David Stephens

Universal values? While many Australians believe we are exceptional, the claim that we are more passionately wedded to ‘a fair go’ than others is challenged by international data on attitudes ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 3,2023 )
Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji by Jacqueline Leckie
pdf |en | | Author: Jacqueline Leckie

( Category: Fiji January 3,2023 )
The Europeans in Australia: Volume 1: The Beginning by Alan Atkinson
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Atkinson

II There was a third possibility, one which proceeded directly from the ideals of the Enlightenment. This third option had a peculiar significance for the Europeans in Australia, and I ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 1,2023 )
Sydney Harbour by Ian Hoskins
epub |eng | 2022-10-21 | Author:Ian Hoskins

‘[A] pond in a privately owned and guarded paddock’ The establishment of the Sydney Harbour Trust coincided with a wide-ranging zeal for urban reform aimed at undoing past mistakes and ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )
Blue China by Jan Gothard
epub |eng | 2021-11-16 | Author:Jan Gothard

7 A Compromise with Conscience Arrival in the colony was, after all, the whole point of the emigration exercise. It was far more than just the moment. The rites of ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )
Sydney: A Biography by Louis Nowra
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Louis Nowra [Nowra, Louis]

His Othello was thought remarkable, as was that of his Desdemona, played by the brilliant Fanny Cathcart in a performance that was ‘almost too painfully portrayed, and we suggest … ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )
Blind bay Hookers by Fred Westrupp
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Westrupp

Very few images of PS Tasmanian Maid exist, however she can be seen here in the lower right of this painting extract, during the two years she saw active service ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )
A Fire in the Belly of Hineamaru by Melinda Webber
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Melinda Webber

* Some of the sources referenced have both Mōroki and his brother Koropeke as being present at Kauhanga pā (F. Keene, 1992, p. 28; D. U. Cloher & M. Penfold, ...
( Category: Oceania January 1,2023 )
Misadventures in Nature's Paradise by Andrew Viduka
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Viduka

Figure 59. The Dutch barque Vice Admiraal Rijk. Of the 20 men on board, only three survived the wrecking event. They managed to scale the cliffs and live ashore, eating ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )
The War Game by David Horner
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-05-19 | Author:David Horner

Crisis in Laos The decisions in 1962 to deploy an army training team to Vietnam and an RAAF fighter squadron to Thailand were made against a background of several years ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 1,2023 )

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