Australia & Oceania Audiobooks | History

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

"Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting, and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy. By the end, among his detractors—and there were plenty—Morrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon. Morrison failed to accept the mantle of national leadership, or to deal adequately with the challenges of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. He thought reform was a vanity project. He said he never wanted to leave a legacy. He got his wish. Niki Savva, Australia's renowned political commentator, author, and columnist, was there for all of it. In The Road to Ruin, she revealed the ruinous behavior of former prime minister Abbott. In Plots and Prayers, she told the inside story of the coup that overthrew Turnbull and installed his conniving successor, Morrison. Now she lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of a resurgent Labor and the so-called teal independents that culminated in the historic 2022 election. With her typical access to key players, and her riveting accounts of what went on behind the scenes, Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an impeccably sourced political trilogy."

Niki Savva (Author), Corinne Davies (Narrator)

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A History of Australia: From Colonization to the Present Day

"Welcome to the land down under, where history is as rich and fascinating as the rugged landscapes that define this incredible nation. With the audiobook 'A History of Australia,' you'll embark on a journey through time, exploring the events, personalities, and struggles that have shaped this amazing country. Here are just a few of the reasons why 'A History of Australia' audiobook is a must-have for anyone who loves great storytelling and a deep dive into the past: - A comprehensive look at Australia's history: From the ancient indigenous civilizations to the arrival of the first European settlers, from the gold rushes to the wars that defined the 20th century, 'A History of Australia' covers it all. You'll come away with a rich understanding of the events that have made this nation what it is today. - A vivid, immersive experience: With a narrative style that draws you in and keeps you engaged, 'A History of Australia' feels more like a journey than a lecture. You'll feel like you're right there alongside the explorers, settlers, and rebels who have helped shape Australia's destiny. - Fascinating figures who changed the course of history: From Ned Kelly to Captain Cook, from the ANZAC soldiers to the women who fought for suffrage, 'A History of Australia' is populated with unforgettable characters who left an indelible mark on their country and the world. - A celebration of resilience and triumph: Through wars, natural disasters, economic booms and busts, the people of Australia have always found a way to endure and come out stronger on the other side. 'A History of Australia' is a testament to the spirit and resilience of a nation that has weathered countless challenges. Don't miss out on this epic journey through the history of Australia. Scroll up and buy this audibook today and discover the fascinating story of this incredible nation"

Days Of History (Author), James Smith (Narrator)

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Australia's History: a Comprehensive Guide on the history of Australia

"Welcome to a fascinating journey through the history of the land down under. This audiobook takes you on an immersive experience that is both informative and enchanting, giving you a glimpse into the captivating past of Australia. Through the twists and turns of the country's history, you'll discover fascinating characters and captivating stories that are both unique and enthralling. It is sure to take you on a spellbinding adventure through time. What sets this audiobook apart is its narrative style that transports you to another world, where you'll feel like you're right there, watching history unfold before your very eyes. The writing style is as enchanting as it is informative, making for an immersive experience like no other. Through wars, natural disasters, economic booms and busts, the people of Australia have always found a way to endure and come out stronger on the other side. This audiobook celebrates the resilience and triumph of a nation that has weathered countless challenges. In addition to its captivating stories and characters, the audiobook explores the magical and mystical factors that have made this nation's history so unique and captivating. From the harsh climate to the rugged landscapes, from the isolation of the continent to the complexities of multiculturalism, the audiobook provides a fascinating look at Australia's unique challenges. In conclusion, this audiobook is a must-have for anyone who loves the magic of storytelling and is interested in the history of Australia. So why wait? Download this audiobook today, and let the magic begin!"

History Retold (Author), Dean Ericson (Narrator)

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Australia: A History Book of Australia

"From the Aboriginal Dreamtime to the arrival of the First Fleet, from the gold rushes to the world wars, this audibook is a magical tale full of wonder and enchantment. And with a narrative style that will transport you to another world, you'll feel like you're right there, watching history unfold before your very eyes. The audibook consist of: - An immersive experience like no other: With a writing style that is as enchanting as it is informative, 'Australia' is a journey through time that will leave you spellbound. You'll feel like you're walking alongside the explorers, settlers, and rebels who helped shape Australia's destiny. - Fascinating characters and captivating stories: From the fierce warriors of the Dreamtime to the legendary bushrangers of the 19th century, from the brave ANZAC soldiers to the suffragettes who fought for women's rights, this audibook is filled with unforgettable characters and stories that will capture your imagination and leave you wanting more. - A magical look at Australia's unique challenges: From the harsh climate to the rugged landscapes, from the isolation of the continent to the complexities of multiculturalism, the audibook explores the magical and mystical factors that have made this nation's history so unique and captivating. - A celebration of resilience and triumph: Through wars, natural disasters, economic booms and busts, the people of Australia have always found a way to endure and come out stronger on the other side. The audiobook is a testament to the spirit and resilience of a nation that has weathered countless challenges. Purchase this audibook now and enter a world where history and storytelling converge to reveal the epic story of Australia."

Will Forrest (Author), Will Forrest (Narrator)

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Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback

"The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins. Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback. 'Destined to become an outback classic' LIZ HARFULL, bestselling author of Women of the Land 'Minnie brings to life a gutsy, independent woman living a remarkable but simple life in the harshest of conditions' JULIET WILLS, author of The Diamond Dakota Mystery"

Marianne Van Velzen (Author), Ella James (Narrator)

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[German] - Aufbruch im Licht der Sterne: Wie Tupaia, Maheine und Mai Captain Cook den Weg durch die

"Ohne sie wäre kein Europäer lebend zurückgekommen: Tupaia, Maheine, Mai – die Indigenen, die James Cooks Entdeckungen in der Südsee erst möglich machten. James Cook gilt als bedeutendster Entdecker nach Kolumbus. Freilich: Ohne Tupaia, Maheine und Mai wären seine Reisen unmöglich gewesen. Sie führten Cook in die Welt der Südsee ein, bewahrten seine Schiffe vor gefährlichen Korallenriffen und ersparten es ihm, in Neuseeland von den Maori als Eindringling massakriert zu werden. Tupaia, Meisternavigator, Hohepriester und Chefberater der Herrscher Tahitis erstellte eine Seekarte mit mehr als 70 unbekannten Inseln, das erste schriftliche Dokument, das das ungeheure nautische Wissen polynesischer Seefahrer belegt, die auf ihren Übersee-Kanus den Pazifik schon Jahrtausende vor den Europäern befuhren. Kam er in Cooks Beschreibungen etwa nur deshalb kaum vor, weil er an Bord an Skorbut erkrankte und bald darauf starb – Cook aber als der Kapitän in die Seefahrtsgeschichte eingehen wollte, der »keinen einzigen Mann an den Scharbock verloren« hatte? Maheine ermöglichte es Cooks Expedition bei der zweiten Reise, drei Jahre durchzuhalten und Zugang zu wichtigen Kultgegenständen zu bekommen. Mai kam als Einziger bis nach London mit und erlangte dort bizarren Ruhm als »wilder Südseeprinz«. Alle drei hatten Gründe, bei den Engländern mitzusegeln, von denen diese nichts ahnten. Wo findet sich eine angemessene Würdigung der drei?"

Frank Vorpahl (Author), Gordon Piedesack (Narrator)

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The Australian Frontier Wars: The History of the Conflicts Between Indigenous Groups and Colonists a

"A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea crossings from Southeast Asia. The history of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, known in contemporary anthropology as the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia,” is a complex and continually evolving field of study, and it has been colored by politics. For generations after the arrival of whites in Australia, the Aboriginal people were disregarded and marginalized, largely because they offered little in the way of a labor resource, and they occupied land required for European settlement. At the same time, it is a misconception that indigenous Australians meekly accepted the invasion of their country by the British, for they did not. They certainly resisted, but as far as colonial wars during that era went, the frontier conflicts of Australia did not warrant a great deal of attention. Indigenous Australians were hardly a warlike people, and without central organization, or political cohesion beyond scattered family groups, they succumbed to the orchestrated advance of white settlement with passionate, but futile resistance. In many instances, aggressive clashes between the two groups simply gave the white colonists reasonable cause to inflict a style of genocide on the Aborigines that stood in the way of progress. "

Charles River Editors (Author), Michelle Humphries (Narrator)

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Ḏamurruŋ'puy Mälk Saltwater Skin

"A memoir of a woman's journey into remote Arnhem Land in Australia being adopted into a tribe. Her transition into a new world and a new life with the Yolŋu people and her experiences with culture, kinship, language and traditional ceremonies. References & Photographs attached PDF https://www.dropbox.com/s/qir91mgkbu3iuyg/saltwater_skin_pdf_photos_and_references.pdf?dl=0"

Mary E Mccarthy (Author), Mary E Mccarthy (Narrator)

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The Aceh War: The History of the Bloody Conflict that Imposed Dutch Rule Over Indonesia

"During the 17th century, the Netherlands, despite having only 1.5 million people in 1600, became a global maritime and trading power. By contrast, France at the time had 20 million people, Spain had 8 million, and England had 5 million. Nevertheless, Amsterdam became one of the most important urban centers in the world and the location of the world’s first stock market, and Dutch merchant ships and pirates plied the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. The Dutch acquired colonies in the East Indies, where they seized control of the spice trade from the Portuguese, and in the West Indies, they acquired a number of islands from the Spanish (several of which are still Dutch today). They became the only Westerners who were allowed to trade with Shogunate Japan from a small island next to Nagasaki, and they settled the town that ultimately became New York City. Naturally, all of this imperialism generated enormous amounts of wealth that flowed into the Netherlands. Naturally, not everybody welcomed the Europeans, and some of the fiercest opposition came from the Sultanate of Aceh. Aceh is now a part of Indonesia, but the people have stubbornly maintained a unique sense of self-identity based on a quite distinct and separate history. Once a major political and military power in the Indian Ocean, its power gradually declined over a period of several centuries, but Aceh successfully maintained its independence until 1873, when the Dutch invaded. The war between the Dutch and the Acehnese was the longest and bloodiest of the many Dutch military campaigns in Indonesia. Even after the Dutch technically subdued them, insurgency campaigns would last well into the 20th century, and sporadic fighting was still ongoing as the Japanese pushed across the Pacific in the 1930s and 1940s. "

Charles River Editors (Author), Kc Wayman (Narrator)

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Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i

"In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili'uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen's visits to Washington, D.C., to lobby for independence, and her imprisonment, along with hundreds of others, after their aborted armed insurrection. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai'i's sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States' growing empire."

Tom Coffman (Author), Kaipo Schwab (Narrator)

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Foundations

"In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigates intersecting personal, local, family and global histories, stories that help her reckon with who she is and where she stands in this complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreak feature heavily in her memoir so too do friendship, love, poetry, books, music, laughter and resistance. Warm, funny, quirky yet also confronting and, at times, shockingly brutal, her childhood and young adult memories bring to life the scenes and sounds of 70s, 80s and 90s New Zealand. At university, Karin's unquenchable thirst for knowledge and social justice see her embark on her first research project, a decolonial study of Louisiana Creole, research that cements her future as an anti-racist, activist scholar. Forever questioning the master narratives, digging deeper and peeling back layers to expose what lies hidden beneath and behind, Karin reminds us that history and trauma are all around us, ingrained in our lives, etched into our landscapes and at the very foundations of our cities and infrastructure. When she begins to examine her own family stories, rooted in colonisation and working-class struggle and embedded in the national histories of Aotearoa and Australia, she uncovers astonishing inter-generational palimpsests and starts to grasp the importance of listening to her ghosts. About the Author Karin Speedy is an interdisciplinary academic whose research weaves together her expertise in history, literature, linguistics and translation. She has published extensively on colonial and decolonial Pacific and Francophone history and literature, as well as on Creole languages, slavery and African and Indian Ocean diasporas in the Pacific. In 2013, she was awarded the John Dunmore Medal for research, recognising her major contribution to knowledge of French language and culture in the Pacific."

Karin Speedy (Author), Karin Speedy (Narrator)

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Māori History: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Indigenous Polynesian People of New Zealand

"Have you ever asked yourself who exactly are the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand? Find your answer in this guide about Māori history! Through this audiobook, you’ll follow the voyages of ancient Polynesians who arrived on the shores of New Zealand. These early Polynesian settlers eventually transformed into the unique Māori civilization. After falling into prolonged isolation, the Māori people developed their own distinctive culture and lifestyle, feeling they were the only humans in the whole universe. Yet, the solitude was slowly breached by European explorers, who were seeking new lands to trade with and conquer. What followed was a period of peaceful cooperation in which the Western visitors showed respect to the Māori. This guide will then lead you through the times of rising tensions, sparking conflicts between the European settlers and the Māori. However, their struggle wasn’t limited only to armed conflicts but also epidemics and cultural invasion, making their future ultimately uncertain. Despite that, the Māori miraculously managed to persevere through their stubbornness and adaptivity, using politics to preserve their civilization and future. Here are some of the captivating facts you’ll find in this audiobook: - The origins of the Māori people. - How the Māori civilization developed in seclusion from the rest of the world. - What Māori life was like before European contact. - How and when the Māori isolation period ended. - How the European presence changed the Māori civilization. - Why the Māori-European relations soured. - The Māori heroes in the struggles against the colonial settlers. - What happened during the New Zealand Wars. - How the Māori survived the European challenges. Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the Māori people and why it matters!"

Captivating History (Author), Jason Zenobia (Narrator)

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