Sister Burchill tells of her experiences at Innamincka and of the early days of the Inland Mission Nursing Sisters.

Found! The wreck of Australian navy cruiser HMAS Sydney II was discovered off the coast of Western Australia in March 2008. In November 1941 controversy and mystery surrounded the loss of the battle-hardened ship and her crew. Now you...

Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began collecting shearing stories several years ago. The result, a collection that brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, and occasionally strange cooks to the bush yarn and...

Australian novelist, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White writes about his life, his homosexuality and his views on a variety of topics.

With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Milvern and his wife Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly...

Kathleen Mangan is the youngest daughter of the artist Frederick McCubbin and here she recounts her growing up in the early years of this century.

A story of aborigines, their living conditions, their relationship with white people, all set in the North West Australia but dealing primarily with the history of Coonardoo, the heroine.

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a house where they begin their lives again from scratch. For 20 years they laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes home for their...

Xavier Herbert's famous saga of the Australian outback.