Members' Books

No Longer Silent: Voices of 21st-Century Nurses

Published 2023 by Australian College of Nursing and Ocean Reeve Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-923061-15-6 (hardcover)           …

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Neither King Nor Saint

by Helen Topor ISBN: 9780197508459 In Neither King nor Saint Helen Topor explored three central questions:…

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Bold Types: How Australia's First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail

by  Patricia Clarke Paperback | Nov 2022 | National Library of Australia | ISBN: 9781922507372 …

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The Heritage You Leave Behind

Susan Steggall Glasgow 1948 and 23-year-old Ellie (Eilean) Gilmartin becomes a sculptor despite family opposition and the…

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ANALYSING AUSTRALIAN HISTORY. War and Upheaval, 1909-1922

Editors: Michael Adcock, Helen Smalley, Ian Keese and Jenny Pudney   Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 2021 Written…

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GENDER AND LEARNING IN RWANDA

  Edited by Professor Shirley Randell AO and Dr Hilary Yerbury University of Technology Press,…

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CATHY GOES TO CANBERRA

Cathy McGowan MP Cathy came to national attention when she won the seat of Indi…

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MARGARET HOLMES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AUSTRALIAN PEACE CAMPAIGNER

Michelle Cavanagh, Historian, Researcher, Writer ‘One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to…

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia

  ISBN: 9780642279620 Partricia Clarke Jobs were few and poverty was widespread among educated middle-class…

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A SUITCASE IN THE DESERT

Brian Nicholls Two lost children A man in search of himself An unforgiving land An…

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BOTANIC ENDEAVOUR: the Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collection

ISBN : 9780646816081 Colleen Morris and Brett Summerell, Brett (author.) and Beverley Allen (writer…

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A GOLDMINER’S FORTUNE. The Story of Martin Loughlin, “Quartz King”, racehorse owner and philanthropist, and of Thomas O’Loughlin, who inherited the fortune

Anne Ridley ISBN:  978-0-6489488-0-3; 2020, pbk When gold was discovered in Victoria, a young Irishman, Martin…

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