Australian History Series

Australian History Series PDF Author: Lindsay Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863978224
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Explores the movement of, and interaction between, people before the 1800's.

Australian History Series

Australian History Series PDF Author: Lindsay Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863978224
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Book Description
Explores the movement of, and interaction between, people before the 1800's.

Family Life

Family Life PDF Author: Lindsay Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863978200
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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"Family life has been written specifically for students living in Australia studying history in Year 1. It helps students to investigate their own family in the recent past and present. All of the activity sheets have been carefully constructed to meet the requirements of the Australian National Curriculum."--cover.

Australian History Series: The Australian Colonies (ages 10-11 years)

Australian History Series: The Australian Colonies (ages 10-11 years) PDF Author: Lisa Craig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863978248
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
This book focuses on the founding of British colonies and their development in Australia in the 1800s. (From book cover).

Australian History Series: First contacts (ages 9-10 years)

Australian History Series: First contacts (ages 9-10 years) PDF Author: Lisa Craig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863978231
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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This book explores the movement of, and interaction between, people before the early 1800s. (From book cover).

Australianama

Australianama PDF Author: Samia Khatun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190922605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Book Description
Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

Painting War

Painting War PDF Author: Margaret Hutchison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108688020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines to create a visual record of the Australian experience of the war. Around two thousand sketches and paintings were commissioned and acquired between 1916 and 1922. In Painting War, Margaret Hutchison examines the official art scheme as a key commemorative practice of the First World War and argues that the artworks had many makers beyond the artists. Government officials' selection of artists and subjects for the war paintings and their emphasis on the eyewitness value of the images over their aesthetic merit profoundly shaped the character of the art collection. Richly illustrated, Painting War provides an important understanding of the individuals, institutions and the politics behind the war art scheme that helped shape a national memory of the First World War for Australia.

Primary Australian History

Primary Australian History PDF Author:
Publisher: R.I.C. Publications
ISBN: 1741266858
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Rwanda

Rwanda PDF Author: Kevin O'Halloran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1921941596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Author Kevin O’Halloran’s new book Rwanda UNAMIR 1994/95 is the first in the new Australian Army History Units Australian Military History Series focusing on the nuts and bolts on this type of support missions. Rwanda is no stranger to violence. In 1994, an orgy of killing swept across the tiny land-locked nation and genocide – the size and magnitude unseen since the Hitler horrors of WWII, erupted. Around one million men, women and children were mercilessly shot, hacked to death or burnt alive. To alleviate the suffering and restore order, a group of Australian UN peacekeepers was sent to Rwanda under a United Nations’ mandate. These Australians would be exposed to a lack of humanity they were not prepared for and found hard to fathom. On 22 April 1995, the daily horror and tragedy they had witnessed escalated out of control. At a displaced persons’ camp in Kibeho, in full view of the Australian soldiers, over 4,000 unarmed men, women and children died in a hail of bullets, grenades and machete blades at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. Constrained by UN peacekeeping Rules of Engagement, these Australians could only watch helplessly and try to assist the wounded under the gaze of the trigger-happy killers. Rwanda – UNAMIR 1994/95 is a detailed account of what happened during this peacekeeping mission. Kevin O’Halloran, a Platoon Sergeant at the time, has recorded these events using material from numerous interviews and eyewitness accounts. For many, their service in Rwanda would come with a personal toll. No Australians died during this operation though as this book testifies, the suffering and tragedy is embedded in their memories. Rwanda is Kevin’s second book. His first book Pure Massacre: Aussie soldiers reflect on the Rwandan Genocide (Big Sky Publishing, 2010), was received with Australian and international acclaim as ‘heartfelt and frank, showing the world that genocide did happen in Rwanda.’

Kookaburra

Kookaburra PDF Author: Sarah Legge
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099190
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Laughing Kookaburras are the largest kingfishers in the world, and Blue-winged Kookaburras are not far behind. Their size and distinctive shape and posture make them easily recognisable; their comical and personable characters make them readily memorable. They are able to live in a wide variety of habitats, and adapt to living around humans relatively well. This cheerful familiarity has caused them to figure prominently in the psyches and folklores of all peoples who have inhabited Australia. Kookaburras live in family groups marked by the extremes of social behaviour. Whilst in the nest, chicks fight their siblings for dominance and food so aggressively that the smallest chick is often killed. In complete contrast, many adult kookaburras delay their own breeding in order to help their relatives raise young. Kookaburra: King of the Bush provides a complete overview of kookaburras and their unique place in Australian culture and natural history.

Genocide and Settler Society

Genocide and Settler Society PDF Author: A. Dirk Moses
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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" ...Often new, probing and rich examinations of the takeover of a continent by white Anglos and the long-term impact ...the book is replete with detailed and meticulously sourced information on the scope, scale and persistence of the cruelty and violence involved - actual and structural - over a 200-year period...there is a great deal in this excellent volume that demands grounds for deep reflection on how Australia came to be what it is." * Patterns of Prejudice "The value of this stimulating collection of historical essays is that it points to both the usefulness of a transnational framework for analysing race thinking and the necessity for close attention to the historical specificity of particular moments and places." * Australian Book Review "[This volume] is an outstanding collection, a challenging conversation between differing viewpoints where discussion is ongoing and cooperative." * Australian Historical Studies Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon.This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. A. Dirk Moses teaches European History and comparative genocide Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is editing another volume in this series entitled Genocide and Colonialism.