Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan

Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth TynanIn 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision. After earlier tests at Monte Bello and Emu Field, in 1956 Australia dutifully provided 3200 square kilometres of South Australian desert to the British Government, along with logistics and

reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today

Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling

who is not prepared to investigate crimes no-one reckons have taken place

it seems to him

In addition to being an active journalist and health broadcaster

and the indomitable spirits of the people who keep us well

including Yinti

she relishes the opportunity to return to country she loves so deeply

Compelling and entertaining

funny first novel about children moving between Aboriginal and white cultures

a notebook lay at the end of his bed

this book challenges the notion that anthropological archives will necessarily become authoritative or dominant statements on a people's cultural identity