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ABOUT WA

Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826

Geoffrey Bolton

978 0980296 402 $34.95 Pb Add to cart

Finally a concise, clear and informative history that puts Western Australia on the map.

Lauded historian Geoffrey Bolton vividly narrates this long-awaited short history of Western Australia. From 1826 to the present, Land of Vision and Mirage covers the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world.

While being both informative and analytical, the author’s wry observations about Western Australia’s unique history will stimulate public debate.

NEW WRITING

Wild Bees: Selected Poems

Martin Harrison

978 1921401 107 $24.95 Pb Add to cart

Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works.

“Harrison is concerned with the ‘magic’ of poetic sight and sound; with our everyday perception being stretched almost to the point of non-perception.” - David McCooey, Australian Book Review

“Harrison re-creates ‘livable’ locales in his poems, utterly convincing places where ordinary happiness might reside.” - Nigel Wheale, London Review of Books

INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia

Jennifer Clark

978 0980296 570 $39.95 Pb Add to cart

The popular saying goes that if you can remember the 60s then you weren’t really there, but the 60s is much more than a hazy mixture of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The story of the coming of the 60s to Australia is the story of Aboriginal activism.
In a provocative reappraisal of the tumultuous 60s, Aborigines and Activism: Race and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia re-contextualises the history of Aboriginal activism within wider international movements.

From the early days of grassroots resistance through to Charles Perkins’ 1965 Freedom Ride, the 1967 Referendum, Canberra’s Tent Embassy and beyond, this is the story of the Great Southern Land’s racial awakening – a time when Aborigines and their white supporters achieved a paradigm shift in the search for equality, justice and human dignity that still has powerful implications for 21st Century Australia.