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Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality. By John Chesterman. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005. Pp. 357. $22.95 paper. Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity. By Jill Julius Matthews. Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. Pp. 342. $32.95 paper. Conciliation, Compulsion, Conversion: British Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples 1763–1814. By Merete Falck Borch. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Pp. 320. US$43 paper. God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia. By Anne O'Brien. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005. Pp. 314. $49.95 paper. Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening. By Richard Aitken. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 225. $45 cloth. Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900. By Tony Roberts. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005. Pp. 316. $32.95 paper. Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp. 220. $44.95 paper. Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History. Edited by Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2004. Pp. 335. $50 paper. The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839. By Colin Dyer. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $32.95 paper. Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800. By Richard Broome. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Pp. 467. $39.95 paper. The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia. By Richard Waterhouse. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, 2005. Pp. 320. $35 paper. State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown‐Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900–1950. By Richard Hill. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004. Pp. 317. NZ$39.95 paper. Watching the Sun Rise: Australian Reporting of Japan, 1931 to the Fall of Singapore. By Jacqui Murray. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. 296. US$85 cloth. Russian Anzacs in Australian History. By Elena Govor. Sydney: UNSW Press (in association with National Archives of Australia), 2005. Pp. 310. $44.95 paper. ’Rats and Revolutionaries’: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1914. By James Bennett. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004. Pp. 214. NZ$44 paper. The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. By Gwenda Tavan. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. Pp. 304. $35.95 cloth. Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen indigenous Children in Australian History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. Pp. 325. $42.95 paper. The Making of New Zealand Cricket, 1832–1914. By Greg Ryan. London: Frank Cass, 2004. Pp. xix + 258. $68 paper. Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection. By Helen MacDonald. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. Pp. 220. $34.95 paper. After the Rush: Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia, 1860–1940’. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor. Melbourne: Otherland Literary Journal No. 9, 2004. Pp. 249. $29.95 paper. The Scarlet Mile: A Social History of Prostitution in Kalgoorlie, 1894–2004. By Elaine McKewon. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2005. Pp. 188. $38.95 paper. The Greeks in Australia. By Anastasios Myrodis Tamis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 206. $39.95 paper. Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History. By Bain Attwood. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Pp. 264. $35 paper. With an Olive Branch and a Shillelagh: The Life and Times of Senator Patrick Lynch. By Danny Cusack. Perth: Hesperian Press, in association with the Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University, 2004. Pp. xvi + 232. $35 paper. Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class. By Judith Brett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 260. $37.95 paper. The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective. Edited by Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. Pp. ix + 374. $35 paper. Jen Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants. By A. James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 388. $49.95 paper. Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia. By Joy Damousi. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005. Pp. 374. $49.95 paper. Navigating Boundaries: the Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. Edited by Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2004. Pp. 330. $55 paper. The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History. By Giselle Byrnes. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 222. $55 paper. The Hmong of Australia: Culture and Diaspora. Edited by Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2004. Pp. 217. $34.96 paper.