In 1942 the Australian 16th and 25th AIF Brigades, supported by militiamen of the 3rd Battalion, forced the Japanese back over the KokodaTrail and into a narrow strip in the Buna-Gona-Sanananda area along the northern New Guinea coast. It was decided the Australians would clear the Gona-Sanananda area; the Americans would attack Buna. The inexperienced 32nd U.S. Infantry Division gathered south of Buna, and on 19 November 1942 the confident main American assault began. The veteran Japanese jungle fighters, recently reinforced, were ready.

The traumatic experience of the depression of the early 1930s has excited the attention of remarkably few historians in Australia. This close study of the Victorian trade union movement is a pioneering investigation which, it is hoped, may encourage scholars to review conditions in other States during the time of economic crisis. For some readers the work will revive bitter or humiliating memories. Later generations of the affluent society may find here a meaningful commentary on the gulf of suffering that separates them from their elders.

About half of the full-blood Aboriginal people of Australia and one in three of those who described themselves in the 1961 Census as having Aboriginal ancestry live in settlements - institutional communities established and managed by governments and church missions and to a large extent isolated from the rest of the community. Conditions in the settlements vary, but in most the standard of housing is poor and overcrowding common, there is little work available, and the life tends to perpetuate the dependence of the inhabitants on outside authority.

The history of Canberra goes back long before today{u2019}s Y-shaped city of sprawling brick veneer suburbs began to take shape. Episodes of Old Canberra traces links with Nelson{u2019}s victory at Trafalgar, the Napoleonic wars and the England ofGeorgian times. It tells how pioneers explored the area and their contacts with the Aborigines, how squatters came and the convicts stole to live. This lively text is enhanced by many illustrations linking present day Canberra with the past.

This is the story of the barques and brigs that sailed out of Callao in Peru, calling at every Pacific island group except Hawaii, kidnapping thousands of men, women and children by violence and treachery and transporting them to slavery and death. It is an absorbing narrative of the conflict between human greed and bewildered innocence, set in the romantic isles of the South Seas.

Until the 1960s two of the major Australian wool broking and pastoral finance firms, and the stock and station agency businesses were Elder Smith and Co. Ltd and Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd. Heavy demands on their separate resources led to the concept of amalgamation and in 1962 they merged to become the giant Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd with 18,000 shareholders and assets of over

The ecology movement has led to a revival of interest in pre-industrial societies, especially those based on a hunting and gathering mode of subsistence. The rapid disappearance of such societies in recent decades, has made accounts of their traditional way of life particularly valuable. A major example is the work of the anthropologist and naturalist Carl Lumholtz, who spent four years living among the aborigines of Queensland, at a time when aboriginal culture had only been minimally affected by European contact.