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In December 1945, a Sydney entrepreneur, O.K. Kennedy, discussed the issue of trade between Australia and the Far East with E.V. Burgoyne, an ex-AIF officer and the Australian agent of a Hong Kong trading company. Kennedy told Burgoyne ...
Throughout the twentieth century, labour movement activists have been in the forefront of challenges to war and militarism. With a particular emphasis on the First World War this book seeks to restore their role to our historical memory.
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The Socialist Alternative
The first year of peace was tumultuous as strikes and riots involving returned Anzacs shook Australia throughout 1919. This book uncovers the history that has been obscured by the shadow of Anzac. This is history from below at its best.
Revealing the story of the Brigidine Sisters in the New South Wales Province, this evocative history details how, in 1883, the first six Irish-born nuns arrived in Coonamble in central west New South Wales.
The first year of peace was tumultuous as strikes and riots involving returned Anzacs shook Australia throughout 1919. This book uncovers the history that has been obscured by the shadow of Anzac. This is history from below at its best.