This is a book of personal stories told by older men and women who were either born in Australia or came here to make their homes. Their stories cross generations, families, cultures and more than ten decades of Australian life.

Hundreds of rarely seen historical photographs. Captures the distinctive characteristics of life in Australia since the birth of the Commonwealth. From travel and leisure to wartime life, from education and health to stars of the stage. Richly illustrated and with hundreds of fascinating photographs and drawings, this book looks back at life in twentieth-century Australia .It explores the century's distinctive characteristics and flavour and puts the spotlight on many of the people and events that shaped and changed the nation. Economic pressures, dramatic social changes and the travails of war: this national family album looks with affection at those years when a young nation was growing up into the Australia we know today. A wealth of topics includes leisure and pleasure, Australian people, cities and towns, house and home, stars of the stage, the heyday of the printed page, sport, travel, fashion, health and education and wartime life. The text of this classic book has been thoroughly revised and updated.

"The first official publication detailing the stories about Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia from Cyprus. The publication also studies, in depth, the struggles involved with establishing the major Turkish Cypriot entities, which act as the foundations for the community. The recognition of the second generation Australian-Turkish Cypriots is also a feature of the book"--Provided by publisher.

Aboriginal experiences of living in Australia in the past 200 years; extracts from Aboriginal writing and interviews, particularly poetry and prose of Kevin Gilbert, Oodgeroo, K.J. Reed-Gilbert; sections on Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Aboriginal Provisional Government and native title; includes text of Yirrkala bark petition, the Barunga statement and Eva Valley statement; some items separately annotated.

Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think. This collection provides a relevant, comparative and comprehensive study of two countries seeking to reconcile their history with their geography.