Category: Australiana
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that sugg ...Show more
Category: Australiana
Between 1880 and 1930, a series of schemes brought thousands of settlers to Victoria’s Mallee region. At the same time, a number of railway lines were constructed through the area, with towns constructed approximately every 10 miles. Now, almost a century after the settlement schemes ended and the ...Show more
Category: Australiana
A photographic documentary of the wool industry across Australia and New Zealand, featuring the work of renowned photographer Andrew Chapman.
Category: Australiana
A fully revised and expanded edition takes up the story of Echuca to the end of 1994 when it became incorporated into the Shire of Campaspe. This Murray town has twinned with its old New South Wales rival, Moama, to become a thriving regional centre using its romantic and colourful past as the basis of ...Show more
Category: Australiana
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some ...Show more
Category: Australiana
A photographical record of local scenes, of boats, buildings and locations in Echuca and Moama
Category: Australiana
Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Using his personal farming experience as a touchstone, he tells the real story behin ...Show more
Category: Australiana
The story of the Echuca Moama men and women involved in the Gallipoli campaign
Category: Australiana
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Category: Australiana
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
Category: Australiana
The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories ...Show more
Category: Australiana
This is the story of the founding of the society and the years of work and collecting that makes the Echuca Historical Society of today.Stories of the people involved and the projects undertaken, buildings saved and now heritage listed for our future.
