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Annual Report of the Northern Protector / Chief Protector of Aboriginals, 1903-1909
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth; Richard B. Howard
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan and Anthony James Cumming, Government Printers, 1904-1910.Seven consecutive annual reports of the Queensland Protector of Aborigines, running from Walter Roth’s last year as Northern Protector of Aboriginals through his term as Chief Protector and into the first years of his successor, Richard Baron Howard. The 1903 report is the last of the divided system, under which Roth administered the north and Archibald Meston the south; the protectorate of Queensland was reorganised under a single Chief Protector in 1904, with Roth appointed. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of Aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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[Coloured Labour, 1861-1906]
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartQueensland Government [BLACKBIRDING]
Brisbane: Government Printer, 1861-1906.A substantial collection of Queensland government papers bound together in one volume concerning blackbirding, indentured labour, and migrant Pacific and Asian workers in Queensland. Fifty distinct papers, two present in duplicate, making fifty-two papers in all. Full list of papers: 1. 1861 Asiatic Labor; 2. 1868-9 Polynesian Laborers Act (Petition); 3. 1871 Correspondence Respecting Polynesian Immigration; 4. 1873 Inquiry Into The “Jason” Case (Further Paper and Correspondence Relating to); 5. 1875 Immigration of Chinese and Indian Coolies; 6. 1874 Sugar Manufacture-Claim of John Buhot (Petition); 7. 1874 Coolie Immigration (Petition); 8. 1876 The Case of Mr. Joseph Francis Kelsey. Report from The Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Matters in Dispute Between the Public Works Office and Mr. Joseph Francis Kelsey; together with Proceedings of the Committee and Minutes of Evidence; 9. 1876 Polynesian Laborers Bill (Petition from Maryborough); 10. 1876 Alleged Abuses Connected with Polynesian Labor (2 copies); 11. 1876 Polynesian Laborers Not Receiving Their Wages from Mortgagees in Possession; 12. 1876 The Proceedings in the South Seas by W. H. Hayes, a United States Subject (Further Despatch Respecting); 13. 1876 Pacific Islanders’ Protection Act (Despatch Respecting); 14. 1877 Report of Select Committee of 1876 on the Polynesian Labour Question (Despatch); 15. 1877 Mr. Mackay’s Report Upon Sugar Factories, Etc.; 16. 1877 Inquiry into Certain Alleged Illicit Distillation at the Dabilban Distillery, Logan River (Report of Board); 17. 1877 Chinese Immigration; 18. 1877 Resignation by Mr. Sheridan of the Office of Inspector of Polynesians; 19. 1877 Immigration Agent and Polynesian Inspector at Maryborough; 20. 1878 Recruiting Agents and Introduction of Polynesians (2 copies); 21. 1881 Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s Bill. Report from the Select Committee of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s Bill; together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix; 22. 1882 Coolies from British-India (Correspondence Respecting the Proposed Introduction of); 23. 1882 Proposed Extension of Facilities for Employment of Polynesian Labour (Petition); 24. 1883 Labour Vessel “Heron”; 25. 1883 Labourers from British India (Further Correspondence Respecting the Proposed Introduction of); 26. 1884 The Temporary Closure of the Hospital for Pacific Islanders at Mackay (Correspondence Respecting); 27. 1884 Selection on or Near the Delta of the Burdekin River; 28. 1884 Correspondence Respecting Proposed Introduction of Laborers from British India; 29. 1885 Pacific Islanders Fund (Revenue and Expenditure of the); 30. 1885 Report with Minutes of Evidence taken before The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Circumstances Under Which Labourers Have Been Introduced into Queensland from New Guinea and Other Islands, etc., together with Proceedings of the Commission, etc.; 31. 1891 Indented Labourers from Germany and Italy (Correspondence Relating to the Emigration of); 32. 1891 Pacific Island Immigration (Annual Report of Department of); 33. 1897 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 34. 1899 Admission of Japanese into Queensland; 35. 1897 Coloured Population of Queensland; 36. 1899 Departure of Japanese from Queensland. Return Showing the Number of Japanese who have Departed from Queensland Since the Initiation of the Passport System; 37. 1899 Pacific Islanders’ Fund (Report on, for the Year Ended 30th June, 1899); 38. 1901 Death Rate of Polynesians at Fairymead and Bingera Plantations; 39. 1901 Fines Inflicted on Polynesian Islanders in the Cairns District; 40. 1901 Pacific Islands Labourers Bill in the Federal Parliament (Letter, Dated 15th November, 1901, from Premier of Queensland to President and Members of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia); 41. 1901 Admission of Japanese into Queensland (Further Correspondence Relating to); 42. 1901 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 43. 1901 Pacific Islanders’ Fund (Annual Statement of Account); 44. 1903 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 45. 1904 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 46. 1905 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 47. 1905 Bonus for Sugar-cane Cultivated and Harvested by White Labour; 48. 1906 Deportation of Kanakas (Correspondence between the Premier of Queensland and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth Respecting); 49. 1906 Regulations under “The Pacific Island Labourers Acts, 1880-1892”; 50. 1906 Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report regarding the Number of Pacific Islanders to be Deported from Queensland at the end of the Current Year, the most efficient manner of Repatriating them, with the probable Cost thereof; whether there are in Queensland any Pacific Islanders whose Compulsory Deportation would be inconsistent with humanity or with good faith; and whether Sufficient Labour for carrying on the Queensland Sugar Industry is likely to be available when Pacific Islanders can no longer be lawfully employed, and, if sufficient labour for such purpose is not likely to be locally obtainable, the best means of supplying the deficiency; together with Minutes of Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commission, and Appendices.
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Mostly Murder
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartHugh Mac Master
Rockhampton: Hugh Mac Master, 1999.Central Queensland crime collection. 82 legal hangings in Queensland. Abolition of the death penalty.
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Sweat, Tears & Blood Red Opal
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRon McKenzie
Winton: Ron McKenzie, 2000.“A true Australian Bush Story about – Station Runs – Mail Routes – Opal Mines and The Pioneering Folk around the Mining District of Opalton.” This copy signed by McKenzie and with the inkstamp of the local distributor in Winton, Searle’s.
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Dieu et Devoir: The Story of All Hallows’ School, Brisbane, 1861-1981
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJean-Marie Mahoney
Brisbane: Crusader Print for All Hallows School, 1998.History of the oldest secondary girls school in Queensland.
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A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Purdon; Aladin Rahemtula
Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005.Published to coincide with the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which first enabled women to practise law in Queensland. Foreword by Mary Gaudron, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Dubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.
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1989 Field Conference: Rockhampton Region
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartW.G. Whitaker
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia Incorporated, Queensland Division, 1989. -
1994 Field Conference: Capricorn Region, Central Coast Queensland
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartR. J. Holcombe; C. J. Stevens; C. R. Fielding
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia Incorporated, Queensland Division, 1994. -
The Olive and Its Products
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis A. Bernays
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1872.A Treatise on the Habits, Cultivation, and Propagation of the Tree; and upon the Manufacture of Oil and Other Products Therefrom. Early publication on developing an olive industry in Queensland. Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831-1908) was the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and as a foundation member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society devoted to introducing exotic species for commercial purposes wrote a number of papers on economic botany. FERGUSON 6952.
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The Building of the Queensland House, 1880-1920: A Carpenter’s Handbook and Owner’s Manual
AU$45 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew L. Jenner
Brisbane: Andrew L. Jenner, 2015. -
Place of the Stinging Nettles
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Blow Away the Morning Dew: An Autobiography of a Childhood in the Australian Bush
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Briggs
Brisbane: Ernest Briggs, 1967.The unpublished childhood memoir of Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967), prepared in Brisbane in 1967, the year of his death from myocardial infarction. The typescript offers a vivid first-hand account of early 20th-century life in rural New South Wales, particularly around Marsden Park and Riverstone, then bush settlements on Sydney’s north-western fringe. Laced with his verse and literary flourishes, Briggs recalls his early years in a cottage at Marsden Park, the death of his mother when he was three, and the following three years spent at the Ashfield Infants’ Home under the care of Matron Rebecca Marston. Returning home at six, a frail child excused from school by doctor’s order, he spent his days in his father’s bootmaking workshop at Riverstone or exploring the surrounding bush. Family reminiscences extend further back: his father’s recollections of childhood in Ballarat and Clunes, Victoria, and colonial family correspondence from the early to mid-nineteenth century, marking Briggs as a fifth-generation Australian. The memoir also recounts his reluctant return to schooling, the regular corporal punishment, and his growing sense of creative independence. Domestic scenes reveal the artistic atmosphere that shaped his imagination: “Once when a visitor had said, ‘Quite an art-showing you’ve got here, Charlie,’ my father walked around the room saying, ‘It comes of mixing with artists in my younger days … This is a Burket-Foster; here are a couple by the noted water-colourist Miss Allingham … this is by Uncle Tom Roberts, the first man in Australia to paint extensive oils…” Briggs also recalls excursions with his father into Sydney on public holidays, evocative tours of the city’s landmarks and recollections of its colonial past, as well as chance encounters with actress Nellie Stewart and, later, Dame Nellie Melba during his brief employment as a messenger-boy, moments that helped form his artistic sensibility. Other recollections include trips to Campbelltown, Windsor, Richmond, and Camperdown Cemetery, each described with a historian’s eye and a poet’s nostalgia. A richly detailed and intimate account of childhood, environment, and creative formation, this unpublished typescript provides valuable insight into Briggs’s literary development and into everyday colonial heritage in early twentieth-century New South Wales.
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Engineering The Outback: A History of the Western Queensland Consulting Engineers, George Bourne & Associates
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Forrest; Sheila Forrest
Barcaldine: George Bourne and Associates, 2006. -
B Company 1st Regiment of Queensland Infantry (Moreton Regiment)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter D. Anderson
Brisbane: Peter D. Anderson, 1986.Cover title: Moreton Regiment, 1886, Infantry, First Regiment of Queensland. A brief history to the Defence of Queensland from 1859, leading up to the formation of the First Regiment of Queensland Infantry sometimes called the Moretons, 1885.
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PUNK ROCKhampton: Central Queensland Indie Music History, 1979-1999
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartCameron Borg
Bendigo: Moonlight Publishing, 2000. -
The Glory of the Future Life
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman S. Millar
Brisbane: Committee of the Norman Millar Memorial Fund, 1938.Sermon preached by The Rev. Norman S. Millar, B.A. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Brisbane on 25th September, 1938.
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work.
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Men of Queensland: Representative of the Public, Professional, Ecclesiastical and Business Life of Queensland as Existant in the Year 1928 A.D.
AU$850 Read MoreAdd to cartWill. H. Millar
Brisbane: The Read Press, 1929.Printed and Published by The Read Press, Engravings by S. A. Best, Photographs by Poulsen Studios, Caricatures by Will. H. Millar. Chiefly caricatures by Will. H. Millar with accompanying biographical text of 211 notable men of early 20th century Queensland. This copy with the preliminary plate of John Oxley looking down over Brisbane printed in colour and with the armorial bookplate of Brian Leask to the front pastedown.
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Biff
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles S. Gould
Sydney: Jons Productions, [1945].Australian juvenile fiction. Adventure story about a boy from the Queensland bush. MUIR 2904.
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Athletic Queensland: A History of Amateur Rowing, Boxing and Physical Development, Pedestrianism and Cycling, in Queensland
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartW. B. Carmichael; H. C. Perry
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1900.Under the official patronage of the Queensland Rowing Association, Queensland Amateur Athletic Association, Brisbane Gymnasium, Queensland Cyclists’ Union. 4 works in 1 comprising the most detailed history of 19th century sport in early Queensland recorded by . Not only a detailed guide for physical fitness it is an invaluable record of local history. The four works are: 1. Amateur Rowing: By W. B. Carmichael with contributions by R. H. Roe, C. B. P. Bell, and F. W. de Little: Comprising a history of rowing Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton, &c., crew discipline, how to row (with poses), training, &c.; 2. The Art of Boxing: Hints on Its Acquirement – How to Train – History of Amateur Boxing in Queensland by Harry C. Perry. With which is interwoven a detailed History of the Brisbane Gymnasium, the leading institution of its kind in the colony; and A Special Illustrated Article on Physical Culture, by T. Wilkinson, Together with a concise account of every Athletic Display and Boxing Tournament held under its auspices.; 3. Amateur Pedestrianism by W. B. Carmichael. Also an article on Best Methods of Starting, How to Train, &c. by C. Campbell. A Complete Record of All Intercolonial and Pedestrian Events in the Colony since the Year 1873.; 4. Amateur Cycling by Harry C. Perry. Including an Article on Best Methods of Training and Riding by J. A. Smith, also Recollections of the Pioneers by Geo. Tombuco. A Complete Record of All Principal Events, Both Local and Intercolonial. FERGUSON 7958.
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The Honey Flora of South-Eastern Queensland
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartS. T. Blake; C. Roff
Brisbane: Department of Agriculture and Stock, Queensland, 1958. -
One Hour More Daylight: A Historical Overview of Aboriginal Dispossession in Southern and Southwest Queensland
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Copland; Jonathan Richards; Andrew Walker
Toowoomba: The Social Justice Commission, Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, 2023.Processes of Aboriginal dispossession in Southern and Southwest Queensland. Methods of dispossession. Colonial history. Racism in Queensland/Australia. Aboriginal adaptation to the new economic and social structures. The second edition with nearly 100 more pages.
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Field Manual for Tidal Swamps: Subtropical Eastern Australia
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartQueensland Littoral Society
Brisbane: Queensland Littoral Society, 1971.Field manual of members of the Queensland Littoral Society for conducting wetland surveys. The QLS now known as the Australian Marine Conservation Society is one of the oldest conservation groups in Australia.
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1987 Field Conference: Gympie District
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartC. G. Murray; J. B. Waterhouse
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 1987. -
Installation Masonic Temple, Neil Street, Toowoomba, Thursday. 23rd, Oct, 1930
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartDarling Downs Royal Arch Chapter, No. 194
Toowoomba: McD, & R., 1930.Rare Queensland Freemasonry ephemera.
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Kirrenderri: Heart of the Channel Country
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael C. Westaway; Mandana Mapar; Tracey Hough; Shawnee Gorringe; Geoff Ginn
Brisbane: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, 2022.“The project was developed in partnership between the Anthropology Museum, Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation and researchers from The University of Queensland. This publication contains 14 essays by 22 contributors and explores the pre-colonial history of the Channel Country, to the early years of European settlement and through to the more recent history, now being shaped by the academic researchers that have come to study the distant past of the land and the people who have always been part of this story. But this is not just about the past – it continues into the present. Central to this story is the involvement of the Aboriginal people who have never ceased their connection to the Channel Country.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Patterns of Amphetamine Use: Initial Findings from the Amphetamines in Queensland Research Project
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Lynch; Robert Kemp; Leigh Krenske; Andrew Conroy; Julianne Webster
Brisbane: Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2003.Preliminary findings of a research project aimed at gathering comprehensive data about the attitudes and behaviours of amphetamine users in Queensland.
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The Mapoon People demand their land back!
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartInternational Development Action
Melbourne: International Development Action, 1975.Early aboriginal land rights poster published alongside the story of Mapoon, in northern Queensland, as told by the Mapoon People in 1974/5: their forceable removal to make way for COMALCO and other mining leases, the burning of their houses by the Queensland police, and the fight for land rights.
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Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Investigation Under The Land and Water Resources Development Acts, 1943 to 1946 (for the Year 1947)
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. R. Kemp
Brisbane: A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, 1948.Results of surveys and investigations of land and water resources in Queensland. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.
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Capturing Brisbane: The City’s First Photographers, 1855 to 1901
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian G. Rough
Brisbane: Brian Rough, 2022.“Photographers have made a significant contribution towards our understanding and interpretation of the Citys past by recording the people and places around them. Capturing Brisbane provides the stories of 158 commercial photographers and 54 photographic studios operating in the City between 1855 and 1901. By accurately identifying the people who created the images, and from when and where they were operating, it provides a very useful tool to assist in dating Brisbane photographs.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Caught in the Act: A Memoir
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartShane Jenek AKA Courtney Act
Sydney: Pantera Press, 2021.“Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek: Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Shane makes a promise to himself- to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act: Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world. Behind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time. (publisher’s blurb)
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long water: fibre stories
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartFreja Carmichael
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2020.“long water: fibre stories illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices of artists from Yuwaalaraay (North West NSW), Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, South East QLD), Kuku Yalanji (Far North QLD), Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait Islands, QLD), Yurruwi (Milingimbi Island, NT), and surrounding homelands. Together this group–Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, spanning different generations and ancestries–share an inseparable relationship to water, be it the vast sea, inland waterways, or expansive river systems. Collectively, long water celebrates the stories of regeneration and continuation of important cultural traditions, and the strong women and vital water places that sustain them. The country, and wide range of environments, practices, and knowledge represented speak to both deep time and contemporary experiences–bringing into focus the importance of water to our cultural health and our capacity for resilience.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Airport Encounter
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Badger
: Privately Printed, 2012.Erotic coming of age fiction with some homosexual themes set in Brisbane, Armidale, and Toulouse. Limited private printing of 100 copies. “Nigel Wellesley is an Australian choirboy and this book follows him and his talented group of friends from their first sexual experiences into being teenagers. The action switches between Brisbane, Armidale and Toulouse as Nigel has to cope with his girlfriend Jane Barton being in a different city, and then in a different country, but he has plenty of sex-play with his fellow boys while they are separated. Music naturally plays a major part in the story. Mark Ambon is a talented composer and his very shy girlfriend Rose Trescowick is a poet, while Andy Riemer (son of a jazz musician) juggles being a child prodigy pianist with surfing. All of these have major parts in the plot, as do a dirt-poor Moroccan immigrant family in Armidale who Nigel and Jane befriend. A heart-warming, and quite sexually explicit, story.” (publisher’s blurb)