Author: Henry Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582714953
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Henry Mayer
Publisher: Melbourne : Cheshire
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Henry Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Author: Norman Abjorensen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442245026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: John Joseph Mills
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Melanie Nolan
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464139
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Author: James C. Docherty
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461671752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.

Author: Rhonda D. Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: G. E. Gorman
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This is a single-volume guide to acquisition and collection development in the field of Australian studies. This book contains 18 contributions by Australianists and librarians. It looks at the nature and growth of Australian studies; surveys Australian publishing from historical and practitioner standpoints; and examines the acquisition of Australiana through a series of theme papers which focus on some of the world's greatest collections.