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Australian Family Histories: A Bibliography and Index
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Australian Family Histories: A Bibliography and Index
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Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838
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The aim of this resource is to identify the published Pioneer Registers, Biographical Dictionaries and Bibliographies which would useful to Australians in researching their family history.
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Australian Handbook 1875
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Australian Handbook 1876
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Australian Handbook 1889
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Australian Handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) - Manufacturers, Shippers & Importers Directory for 1889.
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Australian Handbook 1900
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Australian Handbook 1904
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Australian Hospital Ship Centaur: The Myth of Immunity
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"Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship!" screamed the world's press in mid-May 1943, after Prime Minister John Curtin and General Douglas B. MacArthur announced the loss of the AHS 'Centaur' off ...
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Australian Men of Mark 1889
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'Australian Men of Mark' was produced in two large volumes in 1888/1889, and records the photographs and biographies of thousands of men of the time ...
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Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977
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Peter Plowman's book 'Emigrant Ships to Luxury Liners' was published in 1992, and sold steadily until 2004, when supplies were exhausted. Rather than reprint that book, he decided ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1913
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1923
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The Australian Pastoral Directory 1923 lists approximately 23,000 stockowners in all States of Australia.
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1925
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The Australian Pastoral Directory 1925 lists approximately 24,000 stockowners in all States of Australia.
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1931
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A valuable source of information for those with ancestors who were on the land and owned stock. This book lists stockowners in all states of Australia as at 1931 ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1954
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In 1954 there were tens of thousands of stockowners throughout Australia. This 600 page volume lists most of them ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory Compendium 2
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Australian Personal Bookplates
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Australian Pioneers and Reminicences
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Nehemiah Bartley's reminiscences of Australians and life from 1849 to 1894.
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Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner
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In this book Ron gives vivid account of not only his career, but of the camaraderie of the greater railway community often experienced in the most trying of conditions. For almost three decades he was 'on the wallaby', with postings scattered over half the continent, and more often than not, living rough. Ron Fitch gives an account of all this and more, of laying track and the remarkable breed of men who do so, of advances in line-building techniques, of derailments and floods ad washaways, of wrangles over attempts to implement standard gauge, an of the politics of railways.
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Australian Representative Men
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This classic work was first issued in 1887 with a total of 130 individual biographies of prominent Australians. It has since been released at least twice in 'improved' versions. This CD-ROM contains three known variations of it ...
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Australian Sea Stories
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The M-Z volumes lists several more hundred names and details of vessels that were associated with Hobart up to 1859.
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 14: Ships Registered at Port Adelaide 1838-1869
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The material in this publication is based upon the record of the Registrar of British Ships, Custom House, Port Adelaide, South Australia. Divided into two sections, the first is an alphabetical listing of shipowners registered
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The first in a set of two volumes covering the ships that were registered at Melbourne for the period 1860-1875, this book covers owners names from A-L.P Listed alphabetically by ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 22: Ships Registered at Melbourne 1860-1875 M-Z
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The second in a set of two volumes covering the ships that were registered at Melbourne for the period 1860-1875, this book covers owners names from M-Z.P Listed alphabetically by ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 23: Amendments to Previous Books and Some Post-1875 Additions A-K
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 24: Amendments to Previous Books and Some Post-1875 Additions L-Z
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 4: Concluding Newcastle Shipowners
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 5: Early Australian Owners
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 6: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1830-1840
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 7: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1841-1849
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The information for this book has been taken from the Register of British Ships for the Port of Sydney, but this does not mean that the owners were necessarily resident in Sydney.
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 8: Vessels Enrolled Melbourne 1839-1854
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Now in it's ninth version, the 'Shipping Arrivals and Departures' CD contains details of over 100,000 arrivals and departures relating to Australia and New Zealand, with references ...
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Australian Shipwrecks: Volume 4 1901-1986
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This volume of 'Australian Shipwrecks' completes the first attempt to compile a comprehensive record of ships lost in Australian waters; commenced in 172 by the late Charles Bateson, then continued ...
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Australian Shipwrecks: Volume 6 The Australia Run
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Australians Remembered Map: Australia's Involvement in Military Conflicts Since Federation
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In this gripping account, George Deane Mitchell relives the horror and humour of an Australian solider on the Western From in World War I. 'Backs to the Wall' was originally published in 1937 ...
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Their homes broken and their parents dead, the adolescent Irish orphan girls sent to Australia at the time of the Great Famine faced new hardships when they arrived. Maligned as ...
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Because of Their Beliefs: Emigration From Prussia to Australia
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From the late 1830s to the early 1850s, shiploads of Prussian Lutherans came to Australia (mostly SA) and established villages in Klemzig, the Adelaide Hills, the Barossa and beyond. Many ...
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Beyond Capricorn: How Portuguese Adventurers Secretly Discovered and Mapped Australia and New Zealand 250 Years Before Captain Cook
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Who discovered Australia and New Zealand? One of the most determined efforts to prove the discovery of Australia by the Portuguese predated James Cook by 250 years and Abel Tasman by yet another century.
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Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans
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Births in Australia 1788-1828
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Births in Australia 1788-1828
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Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS Sydney
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At 1340 on 11 September 1941, Armistice Day, HMAS 'Sydney' sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission. 'Sydney' should have returned on the afternoon on 20 November, but the ...
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Black and Gold: The History of the 29th Battalion 1915-1918
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After early training at Broadmeadows, the 29th Battalion set sail for Egypt, where the troops spent some months on garrison duty at the Suez Canal prior to embarking ...
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Black Jack McEwen
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Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
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This is history at its sparkling best – interesting, enlightening, painstaking and objective. If you want to know about prime ministers and politicians, wars and class, economics and ...
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Black Robinson: Protector of Aborig
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Blair's Cyclopaedia of Australasia
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Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers
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When Europeans first arrived in the Kimberley, a turbulent era began for the Indigenous people. To survive, they aligned themselves with white men through unspoken and unequal contracts of ownership ...
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Boer War Men of Queanbeyan-Braidwood Region: Adventurers or Patriots?
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The Boer War drew men from all states of Australia and the region around Michelago - Queanbeyan - Bungendore - Braidwood - Majors Creek - Araluen was no ...
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Bold, Steady, Faithful: The History of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment 1854-1993
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The 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment traces its origins back to the Goldrush days of 1854, when the colony of Victoria was faced with rebellion at Ballarat and a ...
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Bold, Steady, Faithful: The History of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment 1854-1993 (damaged)
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Bridging the Gap: The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Timor 1999-2000
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In 1999, UNAMET was tasked to conduct the popular consultation in East Timor. The independence vote was overwhelming and as violence escalated, the staff withdrew and the UN ...
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
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After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology--and ...
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Camels and the Outback
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The classic book on the camel in Australia.
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Capes and Captains: A Comprehensive Study of the Australian Coast
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Ignorance is human fate. And yet, at all times, humans searching for knowledge have reached out beyond the expanding horizon shielding the unknown. In the middle of the ...
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Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer
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In three epic journeys, Captain Cook discovered more of the earth's surface than any other man. Yet James Cook himself has become shrouded in myth and his legacy has been ...
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Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought and cultures. The author explores what happened when the two cultures met, and how each side interpreted the other ...
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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James Cook was the last and greatest of the romantic navigators. In his relatively short and adventurous life (1728-1729) he voyages to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, ...
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Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the 'Zuytdorp'
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The 'Zuytdorp', one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without trace after leaving Cape Town in 1712, en route to Batavia (Jakarta). The ship was carrying a rich cargo, including some 250,000 guilders in silver coins.
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Catalina Dreaming: Rescues, Exciting Missions and Other Stories About the Famous Australian Flying Boats of WWII
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"I remember us banking away from landfall after we got hit. We were trying to gain height, and as we banked away the moon was on our starboard wing.
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Caught in the Act: Unusual Offences of Port Arthur Convicts
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"Caught in the Act" is a collection of some the more unusal offences of convicts ... read about the convicts who wasted bran, made cards out of the Bible, or had a counterfeit shilling ... fascinating reading ...
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Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in WWII
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The glow of the sun was frightening and it chased them home... Bill Brill began losing height to escape the sky growing lighter above and behind him. But the sun ...
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Chiefs of the Australian Army: Higher Command of the Australian Military Forces 1901-1914
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'The Chiefs' tells the remarkable story of the talented, dedicate, and now little known, generals who led and shaped the Australian Army in its challenging formative years ...
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Christlicher Volks-Kalendar 1917
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The Christlicher Volks-Kalendar is an Australian published work catering for the German community in Australia, the entire book being written in German.
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Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia
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Collins Tracing Your Family History
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The new, fully-updated edition of 'Collins Tracing Your Family History' is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their English family's past. This reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use ...
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Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy
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'Colonial Ambition' tells the story of the politicians and would-be politicians of Sydney, who were driven by a determination to lift themselves and their new colony to a higher level.
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Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners Report 1850
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Official report, the 10th general report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.
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Colonial Office List 1870
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Covers colonies ranging from Antigua, Canada, Ceylon, Gambia, Hong Kong, Newfoundland, Sierra Leone, the Virgin Islands as well as the Australian colonies and New Zealand and many more.
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Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a Commanding Officer
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Colonel Peter Scott commanded the 3RAR known as 'Old Faithful' at Woodside in Australia from 1969-1971, and in Vietnam until October 1971. This book 'Command in Vietnam' is an outstanding personal record of a Commanding Officer in Vietnam ...
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Commonwealth Public Service List 1904 ('Stud Book')
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This List of Permanent Officers of the Commonwealth Public Service as published June 1904 gives details of over 13,000 people employed throughout Australia.
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Commonwealth Public Service List 1920
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This List of Permanent Officers of the Commonwealth Public Service at June 1920 gives details of over 22,000 people employed throughout Australia.
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Compiling Your Family History
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For more than 40 years 'Compiling Your Family History' has helped many thousands of Australians begin the exciting search for their origins. Updated, and now in its 22nd edition, this book is ideal for those just beginning, this book is filled with sound advice, sources and ideas ...
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Conquest and Settlement: the 21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers) in Western Australia 1833-1840
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This is not a military history in the usual sense. It is not dedicated to campaigns fought, won or lost. It is an attempt to chronicle the part played by ...
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Convict Records in Australia
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Convict Women
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This title looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country.
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Convicts and Employers (New South Wales) Index: 1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838-Jan 1844
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This index of 22,574 records has been compiled primarily from lists published in the New South Wales Government Gazettes in 1832-1833 of assignments (male and female), absconders, absconders ...
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Convoys up the Track: A History of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF) 1941-1946
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'Convoys up the Track' is the story of 121 Australian General Transport Company (AIF) which served a vast expanse of Australia from Adelaide to Eucla, Mount Gambier to ...
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Cook's Interstate Business Directory 1937
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Contains has separate business directories for Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia in 1937, all bound into the one book.
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Core of My Heart, My Country: Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada
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When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd landed, she was one of the many women who literally ...
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Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-45
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Courage a Grace: Dame Mary Gilmore
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Course of Instruction for Primary Schools 1941
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This volume was published by the New South Wales Department of Education, and describes the duty teachers and schools have to their students, along with the curriculum subjects ...
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