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Aussies love the beach with over 11,500 beaches stretching along our huge 37,000 kilometres of coastline.

Bet you didn't know - each year, more than 55 million trips will be made to one of 400 patrolled Aussie beaches and well over 3 million visitors will be surfers!

Whether you're a surfboard rider, a body or boogie board surfer, swimming, sunning or if you're just hanging out at the beach, it's good to know a bit about the Aussie surf.

Reckon the 'aussie surfa' guide can help to keep you safe in our waves, while you enjoy our waters.

We use them every day, some of us more than others. They make our conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare... and sometimes seemingly foreign or incomprehensible to visitors to our shores.They derive from a variety of cultural, historical and ethnic sources, and have adapted and evolved over time into a collection of truly original 'Australian-isms'.

They underline and emphasise the linguistic imprint of who we are as Australians. Some call them 'Strine'. Others, simply slang or idiom. We like to think of them as Australian 'Slang-uage' - Sayings, Slang and Idiom, the Aussie way. Here are some Aussie sayings to ponder:

'Hello, here's trouble', 'How are you me old china?', 'Howzit garn?' 'Saw your light on, thought I'd drop in', 'We have to stop meeting like this'.

In this compilation of twenty short stories by Joe Tog, the criminal genre is nailed exactly as it was during the 70s and 80s - he experienced it - both inside prison and on the outside. Step by step he describes how a convicted murderer carried out an audacious escape from Pentridge Prison. An arsonist at work, along with bomb-making and how to morph a gun, are just some of the criminal subjects covered in this book. Card cheating, safe breaking and a street rort, all colourfully detailed as he segues from story to story.

Twice on Interpol's Most Wanted list, Joe Tog escaped from two South Australian prisons as well as two Victorian prisons. Shot twice in the head during a shoot-out with police, his criminal background and willingness to lay bare his personal experiences through factual story-telling combine to give this book a ring of authenticity not usually found in True Crime.

These words begin a chilling first-hand account of a life endangering situation which confronted John 'Jethro' Thompson in 1967, when he served as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam. Jethro is just one of many Australian war heroes whose brave deeds in various war zones are highlighted in Ian Ferguson's latest book. Graphic details are provided about the combat achievements of every current Australian VC winner, along with other legendary Aussies such as Nancy Wake, 'Weary' Dunlop and Reg Saunders. The political, economic and social situations which have motivated Australians to risk their lives, from the Boer War of 1899 until the present day conflict in Afghanistan, are comprehensively documented, while the performances of many military leaders, including Sir John Monash and General Sir Thomas Blamey, are carefully analysed. Brolga's bestselling non-fiction author has produced another compelling book which will become a must read for every lover of Australian social history.

This is our fifth book in the series of comprehensive travel guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.

 

The Northern Queensland guide describes the most interesting and reasonably accessible birding spots located in the northern half of the vast Queensland State.

 

Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings with verified sightings reported online. Ebook format is also available.

 

 

Other books by Ted & Alex Wnorowski:

Australian Good Birding Guide: NSW-ACT

Australian Good Birding Guide: Tasmania

Australian Good Birding Guide: Victoria

Australian Good Birding Guide: Southern & Central Queensland

 

In preparation:

Australian Good Birding Guide: South Australia

This is the first of a series of books describing exciting birdwatching locations in Australia. The NSW-ACT Guide is arguably the most comprehensive compendium of birding sites in the State available to date. Not only the standard, well-known locations are covered but also some interesting places known only to a few or newly discovered by ourselves. The book series is intended for both Australian and overseas birders. We hope it will become an essential field companion to a birding enthusiast. In today's time-poor society, the ability to maximise your bird finds in an unfamiliar area in a typically short vacation time available, should be a serious help. For each site, at the minimum, the access details, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna are addressed. Most data is based on personal records, cross-checked and augmented with the verified sightings reported online.

The book is divided into regions including greater Sydney, Hawkesbury, Hunter region, Illawarra, Southern Highlands, South-East NSW, Mid North Coast, Northern Rivers, Western Slopes and Tablelands, Riverina region, Central West NSW, Far West NSW and Australian Capital Territory. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of birds and bird habitats.

Book 2: Australian Good Birding Guide: Tasmania

Book 3: Australian Good Birding Guide: Victoria

Tadeusz and Aleksandra Wnorowski were both born and educated in Poland. They have been residing in Australia for the last 10 years and previously lived and worked in New Zealand and South Africa. Tadeusz holds a PhD Degree in Natural Sciences and Alex has a MSc Degree in Biology. Both have recently retired early from their successful work life to concentrate on book writing. Apart from travelling the world and birdwatching at every possible opportunity (Tadeusz is an expert birdwatcher), they are experienced wildlife carers with the NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services (WIRES).

This is the sixth book in the series of comprehensive travel guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia For the South Australian travel guide, the authors selected a wide range of exciting while still reasonably accessible birding spots of the State. Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings with verified sightings reported online. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of birds and bird habitats.

Other books by Ted & Alex Wnorowski:

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: NSW-ACT

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Tasmania

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Victoria

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Southern & Central Queensland

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Northern Queensland

 

In preparation: Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Northern Territory

This is the fourth book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.

 

The Southern and Central QLD guide describes the most interesting and reasonably accessible birding spots located in the southern half of the vast Queensland State.

 

Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings with verified sightings reported online.

 

Other books by Ted & Alex Wnorowski:

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: NSW-ACT

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Tasmania

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Victoria

 

In preparation:

Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: Northern Queensland.

The second book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.

The Tasmanian guide provides a detailed record of birdwatching locations within the State. There is no other such a practical, thorough field aid to successful birdwatching available on the market for Tasmania.

The authors travelled far and wide to check our in person the potential Tasmanian birding spots. This book is the result of their careful site selection. As a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna are addressed for each birding site. Personal findings have been cross-checked and augmented with the verified sightings reported online.

Book 1: Australian Good Birding Guide: NSW-ACT

Book 3: Australian Good Birding Guide: Victoria

This is the third book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.

Similarly to the other books in the series, the Victorian guide delivers a detailed record of birdwatching locations within the State. The authors toured from the Southern Ocean-swept shores to all corners of the dry interior to assess and select the best, reasonably accessible birding spots.

Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings with the verified sightings reported online.

Book 1: Australian Good Birding Guide: NSW-ACT

Book 2: Australian Good Birding Guide: Tasmania

Australian Heroines of World War One tells the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring.

Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs. She defied censorship and kept a very frank diary, reproduced here for the first time.

In 1914, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist, was caught in the besieged city of Antwerp and made a hair-raising escape from a German firing squad.

Brisbane's Grace Wilson, ordered to establish an emergency hospital on drought ridden Lemnos Island, arrived there to find suffering Anzacs but no drinking water, tents or medical supplies. Grace and her nurses saved the lives of thousands who had been wounded at Lone Pine and the Nek.

In France, Florence James-Wallace, Anne Donnell and Elsie Tranter nursed near the front line in Casualty Clearing Stations, treating soldiers with hideous wounds or blinded by mustard gas. In 1918 they had to deal with an epidemic of Spanish flu, killing some nurses. These brave women returned to Australia but their heroism was quickly forgotten. Two of these women received such meagre pensions they died destitute.

Publication of this book with its numerous illustrations has been facilitated by a generous donation from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, keen that these stories become known to Australians of all ages.

This is an updated editon with additional information on some of the nurses supplied by their relatives after they read the first edition.

Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies was first published in 1896. The 30 tales are supplemented by a glossary and the first tale transliterated from the original language and are set in a 'no-time' where animal spirits, supernatural beings and humans interact, often alluding to ideas of creation.

Langloh Parker is probably right in her surmise that this is the first attempt to collect the tribal tales of any particular native tribe, or to exploit this special field of distinctively Australian literature in this particular form. Australian children may read here for the first time about Yki the sun, and Baloo the moon, how the gay Galah came to be a bald headed bird, and why Oolab the lizard is coloured a reddish brown and is covered with pikes like bindeah prickles, why Dinewan the emu cannot fly, and how it was that Goomblegubbon the bustard came to lay only two eggs in a season... The legend of Wirreenun, the rain-making magician, is one that can hardly fail to appeal to all who know what an Australian drought is; and those who would like to know what the blacks thought of Cookoo-burrah the laughing-jackass, or Gooloo the magpie, or Moodai the possum, or any of the other familiar denizens of the bush, may be confidently recommended to these delightful pages. Mrs Langloh Parker has told all these stories with a full appreciation of their value as folk-lore as well as of their interest as legendary tales. She has striven, and not unsuccessfully, to do in this way for Australian folk-lore what Longfellow did in "Hiawatha" for the North American tribes, and Mr. Andrew Lang's introduction has some warm words of commendation for the interest of the volume from his special point of view. The book has a further claim to attention in that it is the first ever illustrated by an aboriginal artist (Tommy McRae)... - Sydney Morning Herald, 1896

Australian Management Essentials is the most comprehensive book about management available.  This invaluable reference covers all topics essential to senior managers, front-line managers and supervisors. Hundreds of step-by-step solutions are presented in a uniquely accessible structure, along with proven leadership tactics and expert management tips. Discover everything that the Australian manager needs to know in order to manage and lead effectively in the workplace.

An essential tool for any serious property investor who is wanting to stake their claim in the 5.4 trillion dollar residential property market.

Finally, an ex-banker, mortgage broker and property millionaire's 'tell-all' step-by-step blueprint, explaining how to build, structure and automate a multi-million dollar residential investment property portfolio correctly, that has the potential to replace your income for life! International author, speaker, entrepreneur and property expert Konrad Bobilak reveals all in this insightful and valuable book.

You'll learn:

- How to potentially save thousands of dollars in interest payments, and pay off your current 30-year principle and interest mortgage in 15 years or less without making any additional payments.

- How to correctly structure your first and subsequent investment property acquisitions, and why you should never cross-collateralise your properties.

- The function and importance of LVR (loan to value ratio), LOC (line of credit facilities), LMI (lenders mortgage insurance), offset accounts, and terms and conditions of loans.

- How to beat the banks at their own game by understanding the exact formulas that the banks use to work out how much money you can borrow; DSR (debt servicing ratio).

- 12 powerful ways to supercharge your borrowing capacity that will enable you to buy more property than you ever thought possible.

- 19 crucial questions that you must know in order to choose the best mortgage broker in the industry.

- 12 most common and deadly property finance mistakes and how you can avoid them.

This book will boost your financial literacy and intelligence, and take your property investing to a whole new level!

A practical and detailed Australian guide exposing the 'secret recipe' of how to build, structure and automate a multi-million dollar property portfolio that will enable you to create financial independence and the lifestyle that you and your family deserve!

 

- In this book you will discover advanced Australian property investing strategies, and learn specific real estate finance and property due-diligence methodology, that will give you the confidence and skills to start building your property portfolio as soon as you finish reading this book.

- Learn how to set up your loans correctly, asset protection structures, and identify the very best areas for growth properties in Australia that will enable you to fast-track your ability to build a Multi-Million dollar property portfolio in your spare time.

- This book reveals the ‘secret recipe’ on how to correctly structure your finances with the objective of maximising leverage and tax efficiency, whilst focusing on buying more investment properties and simultaneously paying off your home loan in record time, thus saving you tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary interest payments over the life of the loan.

- Gain insights on how to understand property cycles, state by state, and exactly how to hone in, with laser-like precision, on Melbourne’s hot spots in 2020 and beyond.

- How to conduct a cash-flow analysis in order to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different types of investment properties, i.e. house and land, townhouses or apartments.

- How to identify, assemble, and leverage, the very best property consultants and property industry experts that will take years off your learning curve, and enable you to grow your portfolio in the most efficient way possible.