Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King
Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King

Author: Kate Simpson

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1760873543

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It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate. Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.

The Anzac Girls
The Anzac Girls

Author: Peter Rees

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2014-06-25

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1743437439

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The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through and enrich our experience. Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.

Australian Women and War
Australian Women and War

Author: Melanie Oppenheimer

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781877007286

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Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.

Anzac Ted
Anzac Ted

Author: Belinda Landsberry

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1775592065

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Ouch: Tales of Gravity
Ouch: Tales of Gravity

Author: Kate Simpson

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 1761063677

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A funny story about gravity that explains why apples fall from trees, from an exciting new partnership in picture books. Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he got hit on the head by an apple. People might tell you this is the moment gravity was first discovered, but the truth is people had been discovering gravity long before Isaac. You might have even discovered it yourself ... Ouch! Have you ever wondered how gravity works? Or what life would be like without gravity? Find out in this fun introduction to the idea that what goes up must come down! 'Ouch: Tales of Gravity does a great job of breaking down something sophisticated into smaller, digestible ideas that are well described and illustrated A good school resource, it would be equally suitable on the shelf at home, where it will hold its own against narrative fiction.' Books+Publishing

We'll Meet Again
We'll Meet Again

Author: Heather Tregoning-Lawrence

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781877007583

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This education resource provides teachers and students with learning activities and information on love and friendship experienced during times of conflict. This teachers' guidebook provides classroom ready activities which encourage senior students to analyse and develop historical literacy skills through inquiry learning on the theme relationships forged, lost or found in wartime. The learning activities link to the Australian English and History Curriculum.

Life on the Goldfields
Life on the Goldfields

Author: Douglas Neil Bradby

Publisher: Black Dog Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781742032139

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What was life actually like on the goldfields? People travelled from all over the world to seek their fortune on the Australian goldfields. But when they got to Australia, they found life was tough. The diggers lived in makeshift tents that didn t keep out the weather or thieves. The food was bad, clean water was scarce and every day was full of danger. How did these early emigrants make a life for themselves in this harsh new place? Focusing on the Victorian diggings, Life on the Goldfields shows how these improvised communities became town and cities.

What Would She Do?
What Would She Do?

Author: Kay Woodward

Publisher: Pier 9

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781760523350

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Meet 25 of the most powerful and inspirational women of all time! From Cleopatra to Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai to Michelle Obama and Emma Watson.

Dark and Hurrying Days
Dark and Hurrying Days

Author: Robert Menzies

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0642192855

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Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.

Love from Australia
Love from Australia

Author: Ruth Waters

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781760505530

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In the form of postcards, Love from Australia explores this extraordinary country and introduces us to its most loveable (and frightening!) creatures, from crocs in Darwin to kangaroos in Canberra.