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The Improving Macquaries: Elizabeth
<p>This walk will help you re-imagine early nineteenth-century Sydney under Governor Macquarie. It encompasses both the natural environment and built heritage. Elizabeth’s husband had to bring order
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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Robodebt - five years of lies, mistakes & failures
<p>Robodebt was an unlawful debt-collection scheme that issued more than 400,000 false notices to welfare recipients from 2015 to 2019 and was a shocking attack on our democracy. A Royal Commission
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Bonsai Bonanza
<p>Discover the history of bonsai and find out which plants are most suitable and how to maintain them. Learn which types of containers, soil, materials and equipment are preferable; and how to prune,
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Peru at a Glance
<p>Peru has been blessed with cultural and natural gifts: home to the earliest civilisation in South America, famous for epic landmarks like Machu Picchu, and for its variety of landscapes - from
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Becoming a Creative Writer
<p>Whether it’s fiction or creative non-fiction, a personal essay, memoir or a whodunnit mystery, everyone has a story to tell and the capacity to do so with personal flair and style. It is just a
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Queen Elizabeth I - Lessons in Leadership
<p>Queen Elizabeth I is widely admired as one of the most successful of the English monarchs. By the end of her 45 year reign in 1603, England was a formidable Protestant naval power in Europe. It was
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The Voyages of the Duyfken
<p>The replica of the Dutch ship Duyfken is now permanently moored at the National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour. In 1606, the Duyfken commanded by Willem Jansz was the first European ship to
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The Race for Everest
<p>After successful expeditions to the North and South poles, a race began to see who would be the first to reach the summit of Everest, the so-called “third pole”. The story is part boys’ own
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<p>After successful expeditions to the North and South poles, a race began to see who would be the first to reach the summit of Everest, the so-called “third pole”. The story is part boys’ own
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Heat, History and Hummus: On the Crusader Trail in the Holy Land
When travelling to the Holy Land on business, the lecturer found themself on a parallel pilgrimage in pursuit of the crusades. They saw more battlefields than balance sheets and swapped franking
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