La Trobe University Press

The incredible story of the resilience and recovery of Australia's First Nations languages Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest...

The inside story of the 2023 Voice Referendum, from Yes to No In late 2023, Australians voted 'No' to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the true,...

A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's...

A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its...

A new path for Australia, by an eminent economist and author of the bestselling SuperpowerCould Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower?Ross Garnaut says yes, and it starts...

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and...

The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets.Harwood is renowned for her brilliance, but loved for her humour, rebellion and mischief. A...

The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal sonWhen Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself. The...

'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia Langton W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of...