100 Years

100 Years PDF Author: Paul Kelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741153697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
Based on the forthcoming 5-part television series 100 Years: The Australian Story, this is an exploration of who we are as a nation, where we have come from and where we are going, by one of Australia's most respected political and economic commentato.

100 Years

100 Years PDF Author: Paul Kelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741153697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
Based on the forthcoming 5-part television series 100 Years: The Australian Story, this is an exploration of who we are as a nation, where we have come from and where we are going, by one of Australia's most respected political and economic commentato.

State and Religion

State and Religion PDF Author: Renae Barker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134850808
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
With its increasingly secular and religiously diverse population Australia faces many challenges in determining how the state and religion should interact. Australia is not unique in facing these challenges. States worldwide, including common law countries with shared legal and religious heritages, have also been faced with the question of how the state and religion should relate to one another. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States have all had to grapple with how to manage the state-religion relationship in the present day. This book provides a comprehensive historical review of the interaction of the state and religion in Australia. It brings together multiple examples of areas in which the state and religion interact, and reviews these examples across Australia’s history from settlement through to present day. The book sets this story within a wider theoretical context via an examination of theories of state-religion relationships as well as a comparison with other similar common law jurisdictions. The book demonstrates how the solutions arrived at in Australia is uniquely Australian owing to Australia’s unique legal system, religious demographics and history. However this is just one possible outcome among many that have been tried in common law liberal democracies.

Australian Story

Australian Story PDF Author: Tania McCartney
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642279047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Once there was nothing. Then there was something . . . Come on a fascinating journey through time - from the explosive beginnings of our planet through the formation of the Australian landscape, from the deeply entrenched history of our Indigenous people to modern-day Australia. Beginning with the creation of our country's landmass and climate, 'Australian Story: An Illustrated Timeline' presents the key moments in our country's geographical, faunal and floral formation, and later human settlement. Illustrated with a striking collection of photographs and images from the NLA's digital collection, this is history for children like never before. A fascinating snapshot of our country, 'Australian Story' tells who we once were, who we are today . . . and where we are going.

The Story of Australian English

The Story of Australian English PDF Author: Kel Richards
Publisher: NewSouth
ISBN: 1742241905
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Book Description
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.

Wombat Stew

Wombat Stew PDF Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!

Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories

Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories PDF Author: Jim Haynes
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1952535700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Book Description
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost? From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising, the truly weird and the completely inexplicable. Told with a refreshing understatement, Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories vividly evokes a vanishing Australia when anything was possible, when characters were larger than life and the bizarre and strange were normal.

Tears in the Jungle

Tears in the Jungle PDF Author: Daniel Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646558158
Category : Bornean orangutan
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Book Description
Two children, one wheelchair and a passion to save the orangutans... An incredible journey written by children, for children. Daniel Clarke and his brother William travelled to the jungles of Borneo, Indonesia to experience the critically endangered orangutan in the wild. Their story if both inspiring and educational.

9/11 and the Art of Happiness

9/11 and the Art of Happiness PDF Author: Simon Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925048087
Category : American Airlines Flight 77 Hijacking Incident, 2001
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
On 11 September 2001, Australian Yvonne Kennedy boarded American Airlines flight 77 to return to Australia after a US holiday. That day has since been seared into our consciousness. Her flight was hijacked and deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. All passengers on board were killed. Yvonne's death left her family devastated. In 9/11 and the A...

My Australian Story

My Australian Story PDF Author: Sally Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369301963
Category : Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
One of a series of meticulously researched, historical novels in which each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch water, mend clothes, please her master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her diary. But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles across the sea.

I'm Australian Too

I'm Australian Too PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781760276218
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
I'm Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas, to make Australia their home. How Australian is that?