Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas
Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas

Author: Gary Wood

Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1763563103

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Ever since he was a young man living on the Gold Coast, Gary had dreamed of riding a motor-cycle around Australia. His focus on family, qualifications, career and mortgage conspired to push this dream out of his mind. Life had stopped being fun and he could see that it wouldn’t get better unless he changed his thinking. Then one night while lying in his hammock, sipping red wine, and listening to music, a song from his past came over the speaker. It was a message from his younger self reminding him of his dreams. He made a goal, got a motorcycle and some camping gear, and within two years he was on a solo motorcycle adventure through Queensland. This book is more than a motorcycle travel story, it’s an adventure through the heart of Queensland and the soul of Australia. Along the way, Gary learns the secret of life, loses his money by betting on chickens and solves the murder of the swaggie from the song Waltzing Matilda. His message to the reader is that it’s never too late to set and achieve goals. If he can do it anyone can, and it’s easier than you think. Just twist the throttle and look out for kangaroos.

Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line
Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line

Author: Graham Smith

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1921555831

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Recollections of a young boy growing up in a Queensland bush community during the most turbulent time in Australia's history. The stories are from a world that is almost unrecognisable to the one we live in today, about a community that no longer exists. My immediate family want to remember 'Grandad's stories', and I hope the wider audience will enjoy either renewing their acquaintance with the world of their childhood, or learning about the world of parents and grandparents.

Guns and Goannas
Guns and Goannas

Author: Browne J.S. & Franklin Bradley

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781922134721

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In the tradition of the iconic character Les Nortonhellip;Jim Dempsey is the new and hilarious Aussie hit! Working as head of security at one of Sydneyrsquo;s finest establishments has its perks and when Jim Dempseyrsquo;s millionaire boss asked him to house mind his beach bungalow on the far north coast of NSW it seemed too good to be true.In between chasing fast women, being mistaken for Prince Harry, starting a fight with the local Goanna Pulling Champion, this could potentially be his biggest earn everhellip;.Jim Dempsey proves one hell of a lot can happen in 7 dayshellip;

This Could Be Your Future
This Could Be Your Future

Author: Ross Fardon

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-09-21

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1479764787

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This is a book of a hundred stories and life lessons: crazy; beautiful; very serious. It is of a golden life and nine near-death encounters, moving between remote camps amidst poor indigenous folk, the salt of the Earth, and the glossy skyscrapers of our cities. Mineral exploration is a strange game. It is highest technology, big dollars, outback people and their aspirations, wonderful places, and flies, dirt, mud, budget cuts and enduring friendships. Remote projects keep explorers abroad in this beautiful world, but far from families. You have time and yearning on your hands, time to think and dream. When you reach executive ranks, you deal in public ideologies about mining, government and NGOs at all levels, billions of dollars, and changing whole regions around great mines for better more than for worse. This is the easily-written story of man and manager, major public policies, and many good folk across the world. To read more, go to Rossfardonbooksandessays.com where you can also download essays for free.

Hunter-gatherers Today
Hunter-gatherers Today

Author: Jon C. Altman

Publisher: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Analysis of Momega outstation economy; eastern Gunwinggu people; social, geographic setting; dietary analysis; sources of cash income; market replacement values of subsistence foodstuff; market value of art and craft production, mens vs womens; expenditure patterns, consumer goods, capital; price fluctuations over the period of fieldwork; Questions Sahlins original affluence hypothesis; discusses work, labour in subsistence economy; reckoning of time, activity patterns, work density, productivity, composition of hunting and gathering teams, leadership on the hunt; examines system of redistribution, sharing of subsistence produce; influential factors include type of game, seasonal variation, kinship, status of hunter, coresidence; introduction of unemployment benefits, bases for sharing cash; conflict between local values, indigenous social security system and Federal governments system of awarding social security payments, local anomolies in payments; cash sharing and kinship distance, gambling rings, types of card games, division of goods into traditional and market spheres; rules for utilisation of various types of goods; regulation of consumption of bush foods by means of prohibitions and taboos; adaption vs adoption of market goods; discusses ceremonial and market exchange; range of exchange types, ceremonial exchange cycle; economic significance of ceremonial vs market exchange; seasonal migration between township and outstation.

Bunyips
Bunyips

Author: Shirley Raye Redmond

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0737759194

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Readers are taken on a journey to Australia's lore of the bunyip. This book describes its origin, menacing characteristics, and the monster's legacy in popular culture.

The Road Home
The Road Home

Author: Margaret Way

Publisher: Zebra Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1420141732

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Mystery and romance collide at a glittering soirée when a Sydney businessman meets a stunning beauty who resembles a missing woman. Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure he’s seen before. Her name is Isabelle Martin—and she says she’s not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, he’s determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelle’s past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . . “In this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.” —Publishers Weekly

Home to Mother
Home to Mother

Author: Doris Pilkington

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780702235467

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When Gracie, Daisy and Molly are taken from their mother and sent away to the Moore River Settlement, thousands of miles from their home country, they decide to escape. But when the only way home is along a rabbit-proof fence, and you re being chased by the police, escaping is just the start of your adventure.This younger reader's version of Doris Pilkington's amazing best-selling true story of courage and love will grab readers of all ages, and take them on a journey through a country as beautiful as it is harsh. A journey home.

Grave Tales
Grave Tales

Author: Helen Goltz

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780648709343

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Visiting Melbourne cemeteries, 'Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now in towns and cities along the way, and finished their days in cemeteries in Melbourne. These are tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. 'Grave Tales' reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. This is number seven in the awarded and popular 'Grave Tales' series.