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The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.

This historical account of the NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work, which is still far from achieved.

Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettlement Australia
Ebook available from ProQuest Ebook Central

A social, cultural, political and economic history of Australia set in a global context, from the times of the first explorers to the anxious border controls of the 21st century

Settler Society is a fresh look at the history of the Australian colonies from the 1820s to the 1860s, a foundational period.