Celebrating 85 years! Let's look back with a critical eye-and look forward with renewed curiosity...

For most of the twenty-first century, Australia's national politics has been characterised by tum...

Quality information on caesarean birth is essential.Around 40 per cent of Australian babies...

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Ngarn Wa'ngal: Art of the Gum Tree is a landmark publication dedicated to the eucalypt and the ar...

Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that...

Celebrated for her vibrant and distinctive images of indigenous flowers, artist Margaret Preston ...

Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray follows on from the bestselling Great Propertie...

Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even ...

'This is writing about us, by us', as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier.First Nat...

There is a secret world beyond the reaches of our human senses in which things behave entirely di...

For the first time in Australia's history, women economists lead three of our top economic instit...

First, I thought the boat was going to split in two and sink. Some of us could not swim. We were ...

Mum handed me some papers. 'Here's the brief of evidence if you want to read it.'Brief of evidenc...

Performing in the decisive moment is key, especially in sport. The difference between who excels ...

Mary Booth was a woman of startling contradictions - one of Australia's first female doctors, a p...

Sandra Thom-Jones has tried all kinds of work - selling flowers, tending bar, office work, univer...

Who advises politicians about the issues that impact our daily lives, and how has their advice ch...

In September 2021 the Morrison government committed Australia to the single greatest security inv...

When you have been forcibly displaced from your home, the revolutionary dream of what should have...

Foreword by Gary Foley.For generations, Indigenous peoples in Australia have faced systemic barri...

We started out with an ethos rather than a profit-motive, an idea rather than amoney-making v...

When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ra...

From the winner of the ACT Book of the year Award for his first book, The River, comes this celeb...

The Twilight of Exceptionalism is the third in Paul Kelly's masterful trilogy on modern Australia...

Journalists do not often get the chance to reflect on the ethical side of their work, and the pub...

When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, a...

This ground-breaking study of work placement looks at the experience of 50 young short-term train...

Céleste de Chabrillan, former courtesan and widow of the first French Consul to Melbourne, became...

Histories of Australian Sociology brings together, in one volume, a comprehensive collection of o...

The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Is...

The Australian Greens has been described at various times as the fastest growing new party in Aus...

Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked t...

The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused pass...

Good leadership. Why is it so elusive? Are there successful traits that can be transferred from o...

Intelligence plays an important, albeit often hidden hand, in the everyday function of government...

For we are young and ...? offers a provocative perspective on Australia's young people against a ...

Women scientists leave the profession in greater proportions than men and are under-represented i...

Paul Mees' urban ideal counted on watchful, confident and well-informed citizenry to work collect...

Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending t...

From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and Nor...

This book is the culmination of a multi-year research project funded by the Australian Research C...

Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful ...

Almost half a century ago, the Australian National University's TB Millar penned a seminal book o...