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Consuming Pleasures: Australia and the International Drug Business
by John Rainford
Consuming Pleasures traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use.
It examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade.
It also looks at drug use from an Australian perspective, going back to our own opium-growing industry and the…Read more »
Price $29.95
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indigo volume 3
This bumper edition, packed with short stories and poetry introduces a new section of creative non-fiction.
The opening interview with esteemed author and broadcaster Liz Byrski is followed with a passionate piece from Glyn Parry on the lost details of September 11, then Mark Naglazas of The West Australian, opens the debate on truth and fiction…Read more »
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Consuming Pleasures: Australia and the International Drug Business ebook
by John Rainford
Consuming Pleasures traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use.
It examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade.It also looks at drug use from an Australian perspective, going back to our own opium-growing industry and the racist…Read more »
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Someone Else's Country
by Peter Docker
‘Written in hotel rooms while working as a professional actor in various indigenous film, television and theatre productions, Peter Docker’s Someone Else’s Country is a deeply sensitive and at times intensely visceral engagement with contemporary indigenous culture…it is also a powerful historical document, which has at its heart the struggle…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Father of the House
by Kim E Beazley & Kim Beazley Jnr
Get the inside story of one of Australia’s longest serving and most influential Ministers in Federal Parliament.
Kim E Beazley threw off the shackles of a poor childhood to become a teacher, a Union Leader and the Member for Fremantle in the Federal Parliament between 1945 and 1977.
During his time in Parliament he led the reform of Australian…Read more »
Price $27.95
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True Country ebook
Kim Scott captures the ambiguities, the troubles and the rewards which accompany the brutal and delicate nuances of relations when particles of one culture pass, as if through a fine sieve, into the heart of another culture.
Elizabeth Jolley‘True Country, Kim Scott’s first novel, is superb’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This vital, often…Read more »
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Fremantle Impressions
by Ron Davidson
Get the new edition of Fremantle Impressions, the book that explores the character and charm of Fremantle,its rich and colourful array of stories, people and places.
Vividly brought to life in a fascinating stroll around town and back through history by long-time resident, writer and raconteur, Ron DavidsonRead more »
Price $24.95
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Last Whale, ebook
by Chris Pash
It’s the end of the seventies and one young reporter is bearing witness to the final days of Australia’s whaling industry.
Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, Chris Pash, tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end. This fair and balanced account portrays the…Read more »
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Last Whale, The
by Chris Pash
‘Given that whaling seems to be an eternally controversial issue it is a huge compliment to ex-journalist Chris Pash that he has managed to find an objective middle path in this engrossing story of the first Greenpeace campaign in Australia…’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘… [Pash] captures the shift in the public mood that made whaling morally…Read more »
Price $29.95
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indigo volume 2
by Janet Blagg
This beautiful edition has a subtle focus on the poetry scene here in WA with the poems selected by guest editor Les Murray. This collection reflects Les Murray’s love of everything rural and Australian and yet there are moments of profound intimacy and deep appreciation for family.
The opening interview by Lucy Dougan with Premier Award winning…Read more »
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things