The story of Mary Gaudron QC, the first female justice of the High Court of Australia.

Chronicles Dallaire's tour as Force Commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, where he witnessed the Rwandan Genocide.

An internationally bestselling and controversial study of the convict origins of the British settlement of Australia.

The remarkable story of the life and work of Australia's most famous modern judge.

An important biography of a key figure in Australian legal history, Chief Justice Sir Garfield Barwick.

In this short, illuminating and very readable work, Philippe Nemo argues that what we call “the West” is one and only one cultural entity, to which both North America and Western Europe belong. In contemporary debates, then, Nemo asserts, it is simply incorrect to exaggerate the differences or gaps between countries that are indeed “Western.”

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction - the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university.

The ABC’s annual Boyer Lectures are a significant part of Australia’s public intellectual life. Anthropologist WEH Stanner’s Boyer Lectures are probably the most famous and the most influential ever delivered. Stanner coined the terms the Great Australian Silence and everywhen and brought them into general usage. The Boyer Lectures reflected on the silence on Indigenous Australians in Australian history after European settlement. Stanner profoundly changed the way Australians thought about themselves, their country and Indigenous culture.’ After the Dreaming raised questions and challenges to modern Australia which it is still struggling to confront.