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Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

Author : Stephen McGrath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922896865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Sharman's Boxers written by Stephen McGrath and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman's boxing tent spruiking, his unconventional business habits, his furious temper, his leadership and diplomacy. Sharman was twenty seven and medically fit when the war started. We learn the real life stories of several indigenous boxers who were openly defiant against the intense racism they encountered. We meet clumsy Billy Grimes (the flat foot kid) who went on to win several Australian titles. We see an unlikely friendship develop between Rud Kee a Chinese boxer and Sharman. As losses at Gallipoli and the Western Front grow, townspeople begin to question why a troupe of young men is fighting for profit while others are dying. Soon there are few men left, Sharman struggles to find challengers, recruitment propaganda and white feather campaigns intensify. The conscription plebiscites' bitterly divide Australia. Then great personal tragedy visits Archie and the troupe. This story is the result of a remarkable new discovery in Australian history, a true story about how Jimmy Sharman navigated his Boxing Troupe throughout the First World War despite; the war fervour, the conscription debate, pressure to enlist, accusations of cowardice and the tragic loss of so many to the war itself. Based on extensive research of real people and real events, this story tells how Jimmy Sharman managed to continue to tour throughout the war and created an unbeatable boxing troupe of White, Chinese and indigenous boxers, training them to be the most famous of all the Australian Travelling Boxing Troupes. This is an incredible, true and uniquely Australian story, it is beautifully told, giving us deep insight into the struggles of extraordinary people in extraordinary times. "Stephen McGrath's tireless research underpins this reanimation of a key chapter in Australia's social, cultural and sporting history. Much can be learned from revisiting the rollicking days of Jimmy Sharman's troupe, traversing geographic, racial and social frontiers.' Micheal Winkler, Author of "Grimmish", short listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2022.

A Man of All Tribes

Author : Richard Broome
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855755016
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book A Man of All Tribes written by Richard Broome and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a non-Aboriginal man who crossed over into the Aboriginal world, Alick Jackomos became fully immersed in Aboriginal welfare work and activism for Aboriginal rights. His life is set in the context of evolving Aboriginal activism, yet there were moments of controversy as he was a non-Aboriginal man, with an Aboriginal family, living and moving in an Aboriginal world and working for Aboriginal causes.

Blood & Tinsel

Author : Jim Sharman
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522853773
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Blood & Tinsel written by Jim Sharman and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jim Sharman is one of Australia's visionary greats: low-brow, high-brow, pop yet classical, fearless and fun.' Baz Luhrmann Blood and Tinsel is a stunning self-portrait-lyrical, wry, smart and uncompromising-of one of the most daring Australian directors. Jim has perched ringside at the carnival of his own times and it's a hot ticket! 'The Sharman/Shaman/Showman firmament twinkles with galaxies as diverse as Rocky Horror, Hair, discovering Kubrick, Lou Reed, Weimar cabaret. He made Australian creativity hip and original and international when it really mattered.' Geoffrey Rush In Blood and Tinsel, Jim Sharman takes us on an epic personal journey from his colourful childhood in his father's boxing troupe to Tokyo, London, Berlin and Sydney via the international successes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. Whether recounting conversations with Lou Reed, giving us the inside story about Rocky Horror or describing a fateful meeting with Patrick White, Jim Sharman casts a brilliant story of the people and events that have shaped the times. Blood and Tinsel ranges from the rough and ready world of outback Australia in the fifties, where boxers and panto dames shared the stage, to the cultural explosions in which Sharman played a part. Blood and Tinsel is a remarkable story about Australia. It is also a moving tribute to a family legendary in the entertainment stakes.

Aboriginal History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal History written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riding the Black Cockatoo

Author : John Danalis
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741763568
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Riding the Black Cockatoo written by John Danalis and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All through his growing-up years, John Danalis's family had an Aboriginal skull on the mantelpiece; yet only as an adult after enrolling in an Indigenous Writing course did he ask his family where it came from and whether it should be restored to its rightful owners. This is the compelling story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River more than 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, forgiveness, and friendship. ""It is as if a whole window into Indigenous culture has blown open, not jus.

Soldier Boy

Author : Anthony Hill
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742283128
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Soldier Boy written by Anthony Hill and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2001-04-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima – bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old. Soldier Boy is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac. Four months after leaving his home country he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many soldier boys who travelled halfway around the world for the chance of adventure. This is, however, just as much the story of Jim's mother, Amelia Martin. It is the heartbreaking tale of the mother who had to let him go, of his family who lost a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend. It is about Amelia's boy who, like so many others, just wanted to be in on the action.

The Road Back Home

Author : Felicia Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741100013
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Back Home written by Felicia Starr and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boss Drover and His Mates

Author : Anne Marie Ingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920831592
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Boss Drover and His Mates written by Anne Marie Ingham and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the story of Clarrie Pankhurst who left home at the age of twelve with his older brother to make his way in the world. Brings to life the hardships and deprivations along the stock routes. As road trains replace men and horses this captures the spirit of the outback in the life story of a boss drover.

1001 Australians You Should Know

Author : Toby Creswell
Publisher : Pluto Press (Australia)
ISBN 13 : 1864033614
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book 1001 Australians You Should Know written by Toby Creswell and published by Pluto Press (Australia). This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the sum total of its people, with a story behind every person. This tells 1001 of those stories. It includes the factual, concise account of the lives of people from all walks of life, from polititians, pop stars, Nobel Laureates, thinkers, singers, sporting identities, criminals and clergy to name just a few.

Dear Sun

Author : Janine Burke
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742746314
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Dear Sun written by Janine Burke and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence between Joy Hester and Sunday Reed. Love's intention and the reverse of love's inention slowly mark my life...and on the banks of these dark rivers we become - become what we are to each other and become what we are to ourselves. Sunday Reed I am so conscious of my own limitations that I'm afraid I'll never do the things I dream of - but always I think of you and wonder what you'd think...And how you have always given me so much pleasure because you bothered to follow what my silly dreams were... Joy Hester Joy Hester was the only woman member of Angry penguins, Melbourne's radical art coterie of the war years, and the wife of Albert Tucker. Sunday Reed was her closest friend, a wealthy, charismatic patron of the arts. Their correspondence follows the ebb and flow of their creativity, struggles with illness and poverty, losses and gains in love, and their heated intellectual and artistic debates. Friends and loved ones cross the pages of their letters, among them, Albert Tucker, Max Harris, Sidney Nolan, Barrett Reid, John Percival and the Boyds. Dear Sun is both the intimate portrait of a friendship between two extraordinary women and a fascinating insight into a remarkable period in Australian art. 'A rare and compelling record of a passionate friendship...' The Sunday Age 'More than anything, Joy and Sunday talk of love...Another kind of love sustains this book: the intense commitment to a project, the complex attachment to a subject, of a biographer.' The Age

Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743431910
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There written by Paul Carter and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures. Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with life's more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest alpha male you'll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a good story. So strap yourself in and brace yourself for his fourth book - we all remain hopeful that he will not be institutionalised before completing his fifth.

Walk with Me

Author : Kevin Hitchcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780091833954
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Walk with Me written by Kevin Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Since I Was a Princess

Author : Jacqueline Pascarl
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845969693
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Since I Was a Princess written by Jacqueline Pascarl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline Pascarl related the gripping story of her abusive childhood and her subsequent teen marriage to a prince. What should have been a fairy tale with a happy ending deteriorated into a nightmare of deceit and betrayal - ending in the kidnapping of her two small children by her former husband, who spirited them back to Malaysia. In Since I Was a Princess, Pascarl peels back the layers of her life after the abduction. She tells how she channelled her grief, forging an existence as an aid worker and humanitarian ambassador in war-torn countries and working with refugees and the dispossessed. She describes how she persuaded some of the world's most influential figures to support her aid work and became a human rights activist on the international stage, championing the cause of other parents whose children had been kidnapped and reuniting scores of families. Pascarl also explains how she lived frenetically as she painfully rebuilt her life and re-evaluated her relationships, grappling with the emotional complexities of a new pregnancy and beginning a second family. And she reveals for the first time the dramatic details of how, at last, she was able to be reunited with her long-lost children and make her family whole. Candid and compelling, Since I Was a Princess is an unforgettable ride through tragedy, loss and, finally, triumph.

Ned Kelly

Author : Ian Jones
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734405449
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Ned Kelly written by Ian Jones and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the definitive biography of Ned Kelly. In Jone's biography, Kelly emerges as a man - a man who hated conflict but never escaped it. A private man incapable of being ordinary and unnoticed. Seen, even in his own lifetime, as what he represented rather than what he was.

Steve Irwin

Author : Trevor Baker
Publisher : Viking Books
ISBN 13 : 9780670071043
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Steve Irwin written by Trevor Baker and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody in Australia is likely to remember where they were when they heard that Steve Irwin had died. Irwin was the exuberant TV star and passionate conservationist who became well-known and much loved all around the world. News of his tragic death as the result of a stingray attack in September 2006 prompted outpourings of shock and grief throughout the world. Irwin's colourful life and the public acknowledgment of his death and the tributes that followed are powerfully captured in this book, which includes more than 120 colour photographs.

Black Chicks Talking

Author : Leah Purcell
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780733610707
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Black Chicks Talking written by Leah Purcell and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of interviews with ten Aboriginal women. Covers contemporary issues such as politics, leadership, family, identity, survival, racism, culture and suffering and reveals the strength, dignity, pride and spirituality of the women. Those interviewed include actor Deborah Mailman, netballer Sharon Finnan, filmmaker Rachel Perkins, former Miss Australia Kathryn Hay, and community police warden Rosanna Angus. Includes photos and colour reproductions of painted portraits of the interviewees by Robert Hannaford. Author is an indigenous Australian singer songwriter, actor and director, and recently starred in the film 'Lantana'. This is her second book and has also been made into a documentary directed by her.

The Last Paradise

Author : Tom Cole
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 : 9780207190391
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Last Paradise written by Tom Cole and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation.The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole's bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked andRecounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "crocodiles, cannibals and coffee".Operating as the first professional crocodile shooter in New Guinea, Tom Cole risked life and limb hunting from frail canoes in wild and sometimes unexplored country, working with everyone from cannibals to missionaries to government officials, and the larger-than-life characters still drifting around the Pacific after the war.