Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history

Hugh Tranter

From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra...

Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival

Carly-Jay Metcalfe

A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac...

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Meg Keneally

From horse thief to the merchant queen of Sydney Cove - how did one woman rise so far? 'It is a harsh land - yes, for you especially - but people can also rise here ...' Born into poverty in eighteenth-century England, her future was predetermined. But throughout her life Molly Thistle refused to follow...