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A War at Home: A Comprehensive Guide to the First Japanese Attacks on Darwin
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A comprehensive guide to the first Japanese attacks on Darwin on 19th February 1942, written by Dr Tom Lewis, OAM. An essential reference work on this controversial subject that includes a full list of those killed as well as other detailed appendices ...
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin February 1942
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The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February 1942 ...
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Atlas of New South Wales - Portrait of a State
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Central Mapping Authority of NSW with Gazetteer & Index. large format (approx. A3 landscape). mint condition.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1886
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1892
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1896
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1900
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory Compendium
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This set contains 8 medical directories at a special discount price.
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Australia Under Attack: The Bombing of Darwin 1942
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The morning of 19 February 1942 saw the grim face of war on Australian shores for the first time as a Japanese task force attacked Darwin. Two hundred and forty-three ...
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Bowyangs and Boomerangs: Reminiscences of 40 Years Prospecting in Australia and Tasmania
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Facsimile f the original 1944 edution. This is M.J. O'Reilly, or 'Mulga Mick' as he was known, autobiographical account of his life in Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia and ...
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Bush Justice
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The experiences of the last police camel patrolman in Central Australia. His district was an area larger than the state of Victoria. This is about his life in the bush, its people and their foibles.
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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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Darwin Bombed: An A/A Gunner's Reflections
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This updated edition of Jack's controversial autobiography presents the unofficial history of the 14th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery in Darwin. The Battery was the first army unit to engage the Japanese when they attacked Australia. It details the way ordinary people coped with the hardships of life in the tropical north and how they reacted under fire.
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Darwin Dilemmas
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Ron Brown was one of the few who was in Darwin throughout the war. This is his story of Darwin life just before and during WWII. This is a slightly ...
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Darwin's Submarine I-124
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The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. These 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 ...
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Devil's Marble: John Flynn's Grave in Central Australia
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The story of the Devil's Marble that was placed over the Central Australian grave of John Flynn - 'Flynn of the Inland'. It is set against the background of the inland loved by Flynn, and includes the struggle of an Aboriginal tribe in having the Marble removed from the grave ...
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Digging Squatting and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia
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Originally published in 1887, this is a facsimile reprint of an early classic on the Northern Territory from the first settlement to 1887. A vivid description of life and events ...
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Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 1858-1862
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The Preface to this second editions starts off: 'The explorations of John McDouall Stuart may truly be said, without disparaging his brother explorers, to be amongst the most ...
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Fair Game: Australia's First Immigrant Women
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Young women as fair game? In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. The two ships were the 'Red Rover' from Cork and the 'Princess Royal' from London. This book analyses how this migration was allowed to happen while telling the women's stories ...
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Finding Families: The Guide to the National Archive of Australia for Genealogists
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Finding Families will guide your way through the vast collection of records in the care of the National Archives of Australia and tell you how and where discoveries ...
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Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900
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From the 1870s, with the opening of the Coast Track, cattlemen eager to lay claim to vast tracts of station land brought cattle in massive numbers and destruction to precious lagoons and fragile terrain. Black and white conflict escalated into violence and retaliation ...
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Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872-1874
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The book consists of Giles' diaries kept during his first two expeditions from central Australia, (i.e. the area around Ayres Rock, now Uluru), west in search of a route ...
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History and Genealogy 2011: Australia and New Zealand
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If you are an individual, society, archive, library, or an organisation interested in either history or genealogy, you will want this annual Unlock the Past publication in your possession. It contains 66 useful and interesting articles, a directory of organisations and product/service suppliers, advertising ...
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In Australian Tropics
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Facsimilies of the 1909 edition. In this reprint of the original, the author (Alfred Searcy), a customs officer who, for fourteen years was stationed at Port Darwin in the Northern ...
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In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier
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Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. ...
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Index to the Northern Territory Times and Gazette 1915
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Other than just personal names, some subjects, building and clubs have been included. Each entry guides to the issue, page and column where the item may be found. However people ...
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Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia 1942
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1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour ...
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Loxton's Medical Directory 1911
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands.
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Medical Directory 1915
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands ans some southern Asian countries.
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Northern Territory as it is 1882
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'Northern Territory As It Is 1882' is an account of a trip by South Australian parliamentarians to the Northern Territory, written by William Sowden in 1882.
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Northern Territory Census, Electoral Rolls and Directories 1881-1940
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List Price AU$99.00
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Using the Digger format, this index database combines information from Northern Territory census records, directories and electoral rolls, as well as including lists of government officials. The surviving ...
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Northern Territory Deaths 1824 to 2004: Part 1
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This CD contains Northern Territory related deaths extracted from cemeteries' registers, headstones, newspapers, probates and police journals. Contains 30,932 records mainly from the Northern Territory, but does include ...
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Northern Territory Land Orders 1870 Ballot
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1870 Ballot for priority of choices in selection of country sections, List of application of preliminary land orders, Adelaide list--of the numbers and names of holders of preliminary land orders ...
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Northern Territory Pastoral Leases 1886-1903 (Mining, Mineral, Pearling etc)
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Applications for Mineral Lands, Gold Mining Leases and Pearling Luggers Port Darwin 1903-1919.
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Northern Territory Times Almanac and Directory 1887
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This volume covers everything from the colonial governors to customs licences, and from the board of health to the Palmerston hospital, from statistics of imports and exports to the police department ...
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Northern Territory Times Almanac and Directory 1888
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This fourth edition of the Northern Territory Almanac and Directory brings together a whole host of information specific to people, places and businesses in the Northern Territory during 1888 ...
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Northern Territory Times Almanac and Directory 1890
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The Business and General Directory in this volume is divided into banks, newspapers, public institutions, clubs, insurance agencies, steamship companies and trades and businesses. Information covering early history, exploration, customs, landmarks, maps of mines ...
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Northern Territory Times Almanac and Directory Set 1
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A valuable resource for researchers interested in this period.
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Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa 1899-1902
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Murray's record is a compilation of official Australian reports in regards to the war in South Africa. Contains a huge amount of logically presented facts, figures and statistics about the war, as well as the contingents and men involved.
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Outback Corridor
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'Outback Corridor' tells how hundreds of thousands of men and women made contact with Outback Australia by being part of the vital World War II Lines of Communication ...
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Packhorse and Waterhole
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In the Preface of the book, the author writes: 'Not least in the heroic band of Australia's founders were my father and mother. This book is an attempt to ...
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South Australian Counties Atlas 1876
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Compiled in 1876, this atlas gives information of all boroughs, postal towns, villages, hamlets etc in South Australia, and includes 26 full colour detailed maps.
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South Australian Counties Atlas 1876
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Compiled in 1876, this atlas gives information of all boroughs, postal towns, villages, hamlets etc in South Australia, and Northern Territory and includes 26 full colour detailed maps.
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The Dog Fence
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At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia's desert heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. ...
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The Northern Territory: Its History and Great Possibilities
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The book includes information on the resources of the Northern Territory, its farming possibilities including stock, tobacco, rice and cotton, its history, and the mining industry.
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The Territory: The Classic Saga of Australia's Far North
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Timeless because it is history, timelessly popular because it is so full of life, colour and adventure, ‘The Territory’ is the story of the first hundred years of white exploration, ...
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Tracy: The Storm that Wiped out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974
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On Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclone Tracy. Within a six hour period, with winds of 300 kilometres per hour Darwin was flattened. Some of the survivors tell their story ...
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Tragedy Track: The Story of the Granites
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The story of the Northern Territory Granites gold rush of the 1930s. A bush classic.
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We of the Never Never and the Little Black Princess
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In 1902 Jeannie Gunn, a Melbourne schoolteacher, went with her new husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. Though she ...
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Willshire of Alice Springs
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Alice Springs' Mounted Constable Willshire headed two native police patrols during the 1800s. He was tried at Port Augusta for murder in 1891 and honourably acquitted. The Crown ...
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Wounded Eagle: The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal
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At 0937 on 19 February 1942, the Royal Australian Air Force received its first warning that the Japanese were on their way to bomb an Australian target. The planes went on to bomb Darwin killing innocent civilians, women and children. Others flew unopposed ...
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