Margaret Humphreys soon discovered that as many as 150,000 children had in fact been deported from children's homes in Britian and shipped off to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire—the last as recently as 1967. For numerous children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse in institutions in Western Australia and elsewhere. Margaret Humphreys reveals how she gradually unravelled this shocking secret, how she became drawn into the lives of some of these innocent and unwilling exiles, and how it became her mission to reunite them with their families.

    Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, this book combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. Illustrations.

    Cruise magnificent Sydney Harbour, grab a coffee in a Melbourne laneway or head off on an outback adventure; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Australia Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, politics, Aboriginal Australia, environment, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, wine, sports, outdoor activities. Free, convenient pull-out Sydney map (included in print version), plus over 150 maps Covers Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Perth, Darwin, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Western Australia, the outback and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Australia, our most comprehensive guide to Australia, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for Australian road trip ideas? Check out Lonely Planet Australia's Best Trips. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.

    When Englishman Corby Morgan and his young bride Jessie arrive at their recently purchased sugar plantation in nineteenth-century Australia, they embark on a difficult and dangerous existence.

    Cassandra Clark arrives in rural Augusta Springs in 1938, determined to forget a foolish love affair by embracing a new role: first woman doctor in the Australian Flying Doctors' Service.

    The McBrides are a large and loving shearer's family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides' eldest daughter falls in love with the Holtons' only son and heir, the barriers to their love seem overwhelming. But in the end, their love triumphs even over tragedy...and hope and joy are their legacy.

    From the author of Power in the Blood.

    and there is Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken.Pufferfish, (Contusus brevicandus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where is roots out and feeds on detritus. Inflatable body able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation.A severed head rolls out of the rubbish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is one for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know.As Pufferfish digs deeper, he runs straight up against mainland law and order ... and the smell of corruption grows.

    

    Judith Wright's "Collected Poems" is comprised of her work from 1942 to 1985, and includes her latest three books of poetry, "Alive", "Fourth Quarter" and "Phantom Dwelling". It is a fitting tribute to an outstanding poet. Whether she is read for her rich evocation of the Australian land, for the truth, sensitivity and profundity of her meditations on the great themes of love, death and eternity, or for the beauty of her lyric style, Judith Wright is always supremely rewarding.

    An ordinary man with many regrets, Aljaz rises to an uncharacteristic heroism, and offers his own life in trade. Trapped under a rapid and drowning, Aljaz is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous. He sees Couta Ho, the beautiful, spirited woman he loved, and witnesses his uncle Reg having his teeth pulled and sold to pay for a ripple-iron house. He sees cities grow from the wild rain forest and a tree burst into flower in midwinter over his grandfather's forest grave. As the entirety of Tasmanian life—flora and fauna—sings him home, Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking, where his family tree branches into stories of all human families, stories that ground him in the land and reveal the soul history of his country.

    Through haunting photographs and an exquisitely crafted narrative, dreamkeepers brings to life a world where aboriginal "Dreamtime Ancestors" -- the rainbow snake, the lightning brothers, and the mysterious wandjina, or cloud-beings-still sustain the visionary belief system of a proud ancient, and gifted people.

    

    While a number of Queensland's early architects included carpenters, journalists, undertakers, hoteliers and even a dancing teacher, more had received formal training in architectural offices in Britain, Europe and America.

    by E.W. StoryFlowering Mandrake by George TurnerBlue Venom by Rosaleen LoveThe Caress by Greg EganThe Miocene Arrow by Sean McMullenThe Soap Bubble by Sean WilliamsLand's End by Leanne FrahmMnemonic Plague by Bill DoddsRain From the New God by Simon BrownThe Listener by Yvonne RousseauThe Magi by Damien BroderickThe Last Lion in Africa is Dead by Geoffrey MaloneyThrough the Waters That Bind by Shane DixKay & Phil by Lucy SussexJubilee by Wynne WhitefordThe Quiet Redemption of Andy the House by Terry DowlingMPR Crusoe by Frank BryningMy Sister, Cristeta, Who is Magic by Paul VoermansKill Me Once by Sue IsleDesired Dragons by Stephen DedmanThe Flick Went That-Away by Paul CollinsMoon Watcher Breaks the Bones by Chris SimmonsHousekeeping by Amos T. FairchildWelcome to the World by Edith SpeersThe Man Who Snatched Marilyn's Body by Kurt von TrojanCrowd Control by Ian McAuley HailsAt Rain's Grey Remembering by Dirk StrasserSoul Horizon by Carole NomarhasCrash Jordan in the Art World of Drongo by Jeff Harris

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    It has been created to make foreign cultures come alive for young readers, especially through its abundance of full-color illustrations.Each book covers the same major topics in regard to its country. These include geography, history, government, trade, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure and food. Each volume contains statistics, historical charts and basic economic facts placed in reference panels within the text. There are photographs on every page, as well as maps showing political and physical divisions, flora and fauna and endangered species.

    Slessor's work takes the reader on an imaginative journey from the satiric to the lyrical, from the tragic to the light-hearted, from the back streets of Sydney to the battlefields of World War II.These are poems rich with image and intelligence, flooded with a heightened sensory awareness and a strong power of rhythm, music and sound in language. Collected Poems reveals the range, power and flexibility of this exceptional poet, and the comprehensive notes in this edition make his work fully accessible.

    At its heart is the story of Georgiana Molloy and the Bussells, pioneer settlers of Western Australia. The book uses Georgiana's life-story to tease out and weave together a number of big themes: the conquest of nature, war, religion, beginnings (in Aboriginal myth, scientific theory and settler society), and landscape history (as explored in Carter's "The Road to Botany Bay"). At the centre of this vast canvas linking the settlement of the Swan River colony to the economic and scientific forces at work in Europe, is the story of the life of one pioneer - Georgiana Molloy. William J. Lines is the author of "Taming the Great South Land".

    This volume presents a collection of myths and legends gathered from various sources, representing the diverse tapestry of beliefs of Aboriginal poeple throughout Australia.