Thousands of free things to do, to see, rest areas and camps
Other books show you where to camp: over half of Australia Free’s content is about making the best use of your time when you are there, for free! Here, with photographs, are camp spots and rest areas, swimming spots, waterfalls and beaches, museums and galleries, walks and lookouts, parks and gardens, opportunities for seeing wildlife and more.
First time parents Tim and Nicole give birth to a baby with a halo.For a couple of atheists, it’s a bit of a shock.In what should be the most auspicious moment of their lives, the couple find themselves scrambling for what to do next. When the child performs his first miracle, they realise they may well have the second coming on their hands.As ......
The latest collection from Australia's greatest living poet, the multiple-award-winning Les Murray, which pays homage to his rural home of Bunyah through poetry and photographs
These five walks epitomise Sydney’s famous urban beauty, coast and harbour, history and abundance of native bushland. The walks vary in length and fitness required, offering everyone a walk that suits them best. This ideal guide has colour maps and detailed route instructions, and will be a wonderful memento of your time in this very special city.
Before the development of modern medicine, infectious diseases posed a major public health threat. The only known means of protecting communities from outbreaks was to isolate sufferers and those with whom they had been in contact. For immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had already endured the long voyage to ......
Sydney is surrounded by some of Australia's most beautiful national parks and wilderness areas, and one of the world's most spectacular coastlines. Details of over 250 amazing places to swim, all within a 3 hour drive of the city, ideally suited to day trips and weekends away for Sydney residents and the 60 million annual tourists. Every rock pool ......
A celebration of Australian and New Zealand Motor Sport's greatest era
Perhaps to best understand the Tasman Series is to consider the importance that it held to the F1 teams of the day, best represented in the 1968 season, when Cosworth produced a special Tasman variant of its legendary DFV V8, known as the DFW, and the BRM arrived ‘down under’, with a reduced capacity version of its F1 V12 in its current car. In ......
Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the US on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development. The volume is organised around three major issues: parental employment, early childhood education and child care, and ......
An Australian, Malcolm Williamson was the first non-Briton to hold the post of Master of the Queen's Music. He was appointed in 1975 as a composer. By the time of his death in 2003 he was unproductive and largely forgotten. This work tells his story, sifting fact from fiction and offering a case for re-evaluating this multi-talented musician.
The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. This work tells the story from John Devoy's own records and from the ship's logbooks. It includes an introduction by Terry Golway and the personal diaries, letters, and reports from John Devoy and his men.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Australia and New Zealand extensively deregulated their economies to create two of the most open markets in the industrialized world. Drawing on interviews with more than 180 policymakers in Australia and New Zealand, this book analyzes the factors that made the deregulation process different in these countries.
Presents cases and the stories behind legal arguments, showing the ways that fat has become a courtroom topic. This book features an attorney who focuses on weight-related cases, detailing court attitudes toward weight in relation to disability law, civil rights, minorities, and public policy. It is intended for law courses and libraries.