Eat Your History
Eat Your History

Author: Jacqui Newling

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2016-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781742234687

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Our food and the way we eat are products of our past. A celebration of produce, people and place, Eat Your History dishes up stories and recipes from Australian kitchens and dining tables from 1788 to the 1950s. Jacqui Newling, Sydney Living Museums' resident gastronomer, invites you to share forgotten tastes and lost techniques and rediscover some of the culinary treasures that sustained many generations of Australians.

The Architecture of East Australia
The Architecture of East Australia

Author: Bill MacMahon

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9783930698905

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The story of Australian architecture might be said to parallel the endeavours of Australians to adapt & reconcile themselves with their home & neighbours. It is the story of 200 years of coming to terms with the land: of adaptation, insight & making do. Early settlers were poorly provisioned, profoundly ignorant of the land & richly prejudiced towards its peoples. They pursued many paths over many terrains. From the moist temperate region of Tasmania with heavy Palladian villas to the monsoonal north with open, lightweight stilt houses, the continent has induced most different regional building styles.

This Errant Lady
This Errant Lady

Author: Jane Franklin

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0642107491

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Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.

Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia
Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia

Author: John Lang

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13:

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Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia is a collection of short stories that depict life in early Australia during its days of being a colony for transported convicts. Excerpt: "Johnny Crook, after examining the rail very minutely, pointed to some stains and exclaimed, "white man's blood!" Then, leaping over the fence, he examined the brushwood and the ground adjacent. Ere long he started off, beckoning Mr. Cox and his attendants to follow. For more than three--quarters of a mile, over forest land, the savage tracked the footsteps of a man, and something trailed along the earth (fortunately, so far as the ends of justice were concerned, no rain had fallen during the period alluded to by old David, namely, fifteen months. One heavy shower would have obliterated all these tracks, most probably, and, curious enough, that very night there was a frightful downfall--such a downfall as had not been known for many a long year) until they came to a pond, or water-hole, upon the surface of which was a bluish scum."

Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy
Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

Author: Keith Robert Binney

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780646448657

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An economic and social history of early New South Wales, told through the life stories of pioneer 19th century horsemen. Traces the origin and development of the horse in Australia and a special tribute to Australia's internationally acclaimed thoroughbred expert C. Bruce Lowe.

Inside the Canberra Press Gallery
Inside the Canberra Press Gallery

Author: Rob Chalmers

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1921862378

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Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr.