All Australian children's books published from 1989 to 2000 are listed in this essential reference for those who appreciate the richness of Australian writing for children. Following the same format as volumes 1 and 2 in this series chronicling books published as early as 1774, entries include publishing details, the number of illustrations, and the awards received for each book. This third volume follows the continuing careers of authors such as Mem Fox, Bob Graham, Robin Klein, and Paul Jennings, and traces changes in the popularity of Australian themes and settings to identify publishing trends. Varied cultural aspects of modern-day life are shown, from globalization, commercialism, and the rise of the middle class in Asia to desktop publishing, outcome-based school curricula, and the modern obsession with celebrities—all of which are reflected in the type and quantity of books produced by Australian writers and publishers. The wealth of included material will extend researchers' understanding of the range of Australian children's books.

Australian Children's Books Volume 3: 1980-2000: Volume 3, 1989–2000 (Australian Children's Books series)

Literature & Fiction

White, Kerry

History & Criticism

Miegunyah Press

Artist Hilda Rix Nicholas' Moroccan pictures are justly acclaimed as her finest, but they are not the only legacy of the time she spent in Tangiers in 1912 and 1914. Together with her sister Elsie, she sent numerous postcards and lengthy letters to friends and family. Published for the first time, their letters from Tangiers present a rich evocation of the real experience of travel in North Africa before World War I, and provide fascinating insight into adventurous young women artists and their growing understanding of a place and its culture. Adomed with sketches and drawings, they give vivid descriptions of the people, places, architecture and the costumes of the local inhabitants.

Hilda Rix Nicholas and Elsie Rix's Moroccan Idyll: Art and Orientalism

Jeanette Hoorn

Arts & Photography

Diversity and Discovery

Nossal, Gustav

Medical Books

A powerful collection of first person narratives, these edited transcripts tell the stories of women who had illegal abortions in Australia from 1930 to 1980. Insightful and compelling, it reveals what women’s lives were like during these times, exploring work life, their relationships with men, treatment by the medical community, and prevailing social attitudes of the day.

Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wainer, Jo

Women's Health

Unaipon's stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author was wrongfully and unjustly given as W Ramsay Smith. Putting together stories collected and transcribed by Unaipon, the authors aim to restore the text to its original form.

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines

History

Unaipon, David

Americas

Providing insight into the prominent businessman who set up the largest philanthropic trust in Australia, this biography explores both the personal and business successes and failures of Ian Potter and examines the contrast between the measured control of his public and private lives. Using his influence with state and federal governments to reform tax laws to encourage private philanthropy, the Ian Potter Foundation has given millions of dollars to support worthwhile projects in the fields of education, the arts, the environment, sciences, medicine, and health.

Ian Potter: Financier, Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts

Biographies & Memoirs

Yule, Peter

Leaders & Notable People

B.A. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. His sphere of influence ranged across the nation's political and social landscape. Santamaria, an ardent anti-Communist and devout Catholic, was fiercely intelligent and a natural leader, polarizing the community into loyal followers and committed opponents. This collection of letters spanning sixty years shows facets of Santamaria's personality and activities that have not previously been disclosed. The letters are both personal and professional and in them he speaks frankly on matters of the state, the Church and family and he is revealed as a person more subtle in his views than his public persona would suggest. His correspondents ranged from prominent politicians, including Malcolm Fraser, Bill Hayden and Clyde Cameron, religious leaders, including Archbishops Mannix and Pell, to influential media and social commentators such as Kerry Packer and Phillip Adams. In the 1940's Santamaria created the Movement in Australia, an anti-Communist organization, and these letters reveal that he also operated the Movement for decades throughout Asia. He was a key figure in the tumultuous split in the 1950s of the Australian Labour Party and subsequently had much influence as a public commentator on his television program Point of View and his weekly column in the Australian. Santamaria had a strong social conscience and spent much of his time helping the underprivileged, and although he began as an advocate and champion of the Catholic Church, he spent much of his last decades opposing some of its activities. By the 1990's B.A. Santamaria was the only person still active in politics who had been involved in public life before World War II and in the immediate postwar years. The letters offer a rare glimpse into a mind that was preoccupied for more than six decades with world events and ideological controversies.

Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938–1996

(Ed.), Patrick Morgan

Historical

This collection of 200 papers introduces the ideas of modernism and its influence on Australia. The main players of the time period from 1917-1967 convey in their own words the tensions, aspirations and paradoxes behind the reception of modernism. Each document is accompanied by expert commentaries from the editors. The first anthology covering modernist art, design, and architecture in Australia, it chronicles the dogged institutional resistance that greeted modernism, particularly in the fine arts, and yet reveals a surprising acceptance of modernism in the commercial realms.

Modernism and Australia: Art, Design and Architecture 1917–1967

Goad, Philip

McNamara, Andrew

Stephen, Ann

A thorough study of James Cook's "Endeavour" and a unique account of her voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770. For layperson and mariner alike, this book describes what the "Endeavour" looked like, how she was constructed, rigged and equipped, and what daily life would have been like for the men who manned and commanded the ship.

H.M " Bark Endeavour "

Parkin, Ray

Australia & Oceania

The official companion book to a major nine-part television series broadcast on SBS TV, this account reveals the violent clash of culture, religion, and ideas at the heart of Australia’s history. Beginning with Aboriginal travelers landing on Australian shores around 70,000 BC and finishing with the pivotal 1967 Referendum, this account chronicles the fierce war with colonists, the bloody massacres, and the earliest civil rights movement the world had ever seen. Drawing on a rich collection of historic documents and haunting images, this Australian history brings to life a cast of characters including Bennelong, who was kidnapped by the British and became the first Australian to set foot on British soil; Truganini, known as the last Tasmanian, who was broken by the betrayal of her people; and Lieutenant Dawes, a British officer who defied the authority of the Empire by falling in love with a young Indigenous woman. Alive with colonial detailcorruption, mutinies, and pyrrhic victoriesthis is the story that gave birth to a nation.

First Australians: An Illustrated History

Langton, Perkins and

Rachel, Perkins

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