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06/08/2023

The AUSMIN 2023 talks held between the US Secretaries of State and Defense and their Australian counterparts, confirmed the increasing, unaccountable militarisation of the Australian north and its …

06/08/2023

Move Forward Party’s prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat has likely lost his last shot at becoming prime minister.

06/08/2023

In negotiating with Beijing, ASEAN undoubtedly risks being dominated by its bigger partner, but the rewards of closer integration in the digital economy make that a risk worth taking.

06/08/2023

As the US steers Australia towards becoming a bridgehead against China, Canberra must rethink its commitment if it genuinely seeks peace, prosperity and regional stability

In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer ac...
17/11/2022

In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer accepted a short-term job offer in Singapore. That twist of fate catapulted him into a global oil and gas industry fuelled by fallout from the Yom Kippur War, which saw crude oil jump from US$23 to US$62 a barrel. One year turned into thirty. Singapore turned into the Far East, the Middle East, the North Sea and South America. The journey took him to the world’s greatest opera houses and through England’s and Ireland’s finest fox hunting country. David Wilson rose, fell, and rose again. This is the story.

Author bioBorn in Dalby in 1947, David Wilson grew up on Mount Oscar Station just outside Clermont. Having matriculated,...
17/11/2022

Author bio
Born in Dalby in 1947, David Wilson grew up on Mount Oscar Station just outside Clermont. Having matriculated, his initial instinct was to study medicine but when offered a scholarship in civil engineering his future path was decided. His early years as a graduate engineer were spent on projects around Australia but faced with losing his driver’s licence for driving dangerously, he accepted a job in Singapore in the oil and gas industry. Later, David established an engineering office in London where he spent much of his time improving the written English of his colleagues, but Never Fear the Spills is his first published book. The book was spawned by a desire to impart some of his wisdom to younger generations of engineers. David now spends his days in retirement on the Sunshine Coast.

Featured Book Title Release “Never Fear the Spills”Author: David WilsonMemoir140X216mms552 pagesRRP $29.95ISBN: 978-1-92...
17/11/2022

Featured Book Title Release “Never Fear the Spills”
Author: David Wilson
Memoir
140X216mms
552 pages
RRP $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-922958-02-0
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia

The Book

In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer accepted a short-term job offer in Singapore. That twist of fate catapulted him into a global oil and gas industry fuelled by fallout from the Yom Kippur War, which saw crude oil jump from US$23 to US$62 a barrel. One year turned into thirty. Singapore turned into the Far East, the Middle East, the North Sea and South America. The journey took him to the world’s greatest opera houses and through England’s and Ireland’s finest fox hunting country. David Wilson rose, fell, and rose again. This is the story.

Author bio
Born in Dalby in 1947, David Wilson grew up on Mount Oscar Station just outside Clermont. Having matriculated, his initial instinct was to study medicine but when offered a scholarship in civil engineering his future path was decided. His early years as a graduate engineer were spent on projects around Australia but faced with losing his driver’s licence for driving dangerously, he accepted a job in Singapore in the oil and gas industry. Later, David established an engineering office in London where he spent much of his time improving the written English of his colleagues, but Never Fear the Spills is his first published book. The book was spawned by a desire to impart some of his wisdom to younger generations of engineers. David now spends his days in retirement on the Sunshine Coast

SprogISBN: 978-1-922958-00-6Robert Scott274 pages140mms X 216mmsFictionRRP $24.95Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Austra...
27/10/2022

Sprog

ISBN: 978-1-922958-00-6
Robert Scott
274 pages
140mms X 216mms
Fiction
RRP $24.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia
Blurb
In 1956, the British government required all able-bodied 18 year old youths to report for two years military service unless they had flat feet or were convincingly gay. The army basic training period could be brutal.
This is the story of Ian Cooper and his traumatic journey through the hell of basic training.

27/10/2022

Sprog

ISBN: 978-1-922958-00-6
Robert Scott
274 pages
140mms X 216mms
Fiction
RRP $24.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Victoria, Australia
Blurb
In 1956, the British government required all able-bodied 18 year old youths to report for two years military service unless they had flat feet or were convincingly gay. The army basic training period could be brutal.
This is the story of Ian Cooper and his traumatic journey through the hell of basic training.

SprogISBN: 978-1-922958-00-6Robert Scott274 pages140mms X 216mmsFictionRRP $24.95SID HARTA PUBLISHERS, VICTORIA, AUSTRAL...
27/10/2022

Sprog

ISBN: 978-1-922958-00-6
Robert Scott
274 pages
140mms X 216mms
Fiction
RRP $24.95
SID HARTA PUBLISHERS, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Blurb
In 1956, the British government required all able-bodied 18 year old youths to report for two years military service unless they had flat feet or were convincingly gay. The army basic training period could be brutal.
This is the story of Ian Cooper and his traumatic journey through the hell of basic training.

Working Class AngelISBN: 978-1-922958-58-7Robert Scott206 pages140mms X 216mmsAustralian FictionRRP $24.95SID HARTA PUBL...
27/10/2022

Working Class Angel
ISBN: 978-1-922958-58-7
Robert Scott
206 pages
140mms X 216mms
Australian Fiction
RRP $24.95
SID HARTA PUBLISHERS, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Blurb
“He stopped to lean against a rail at the edge of the path, where the cliff jutted out, providing a popular sea-gazing spot. Seagulls wheeled majestically, soaring and hanging in the air like kites. Away from the shore-line, the sea became seemingly flat and calm, compellingly blue. The scene had such an uplifting power, it was tempting just to remain there, absorbing it. Even the rhythmic surging of waves against rocks fifty metres below was a kind of soothing music.
Without warning, the rail slackened under his body. It suddenly sagged forward like a sapling caught in a gale. It happened too quickly for him to jerk back. His own weight carried him forward as the rail buckled and he felt himself losing his balance. He was at the very edge of the cliff, tumbling. He felt the yawning chasm reaching for him, the cool air rushing upward from the sea. He felt the terror engulf him. His feet scrabbled at the earth, stirring up a flurry of loose soil and pebbles. His arms flailed desperately, despairingly. He was starting to fall, the scream frozen in his throat.”

Author bio
Robert Scott was born and raised in the north of England. He did three years of military-service in Cyprus and migrated to Australia in his late-twenties. He’s done many jobs between periods of shoestring-budget travels around Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Bob has been writing for several years and has had many short-stories and poems published. He is now seriously middle-aged and lives in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Previously published by this author:
Mixed reflections in my mind
Sprog
Rocking Chair Memories

Featured New Book Title “Clouds and Sunshine”AUTHOR: Ruth Po***ckAustralian fiction314 pages140mms X 216mmsISBN: 978-0-9...
13/10/2022

Featured New Book Title “Clouds and Sunshine”
AUTHOR: Ruth Po***ck
Australian fiction
314 pages
140mms X 216mms
ISBN: 978-0-9578709-8-7
Rrp $24.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia

The Book
Rosie Franklin is an enthusiastic teacher and sports coach who, through her desire for adventure, cements a teenage school friendship into a loving relationship with Chas Anderson. Chas, a local, daredevil stunt pilot, is also a well-known crop-duster. Together they weave their dreams for the future, unaware of the betrayal by friends and associates to undermine their aspirations. From the days of settlement during the early 1900s in the mid-western New South Wales farming region, to the 1980s, there is generational discord, inheritance arguments, and jealousy, all of which ultimately create dissension between the characters, while adventurous pursuits continue in the isolated, NSW, country town of Gunnedah.

Author Bio
Ruth’s paternal grandmother, Alida, passed away when she was two years old. Alida was a Swedish immigrant, who arrived in Australia in 1899 as a newlywed. She gave birth to her first child on the Western Australian goldfields in the summer of 1900. When Ruth realized she was the last one in the family in possession of the tales of her strong, gutsy grandmother, she believed the story should not go untold. This inspired her to write her first book, Alida’s Story in which she shows how our lives are woven into the social history of the times.
Two years ago, Ruth and her husband, Don, who now live on the south east coast of NSW, moved from Victoria’s High Country where they had worked their homestay holiday business for international students for over twenty years. Providing language tuition and local adventures for the young students from Asia and Europe had been a very satisfying experience but with the Covid 19 closure of international borders, the business had to close. It has been a dramatic lifestyle change for Ruth. So with much more free time at hand, she decided to develop her interest in writing. After following up her grandmother’s story with her mother’s and her own, Ruth then decided to write her first novel, Clouds and Sunshine, which touches on the aspirations she had as a young woman and develops as a story of intrigue and romance.

Featured Book Title Release �Sad Joys on Deployment�A Surgeon journeys into the confronting world of military surgery in...
13/10/2022

Featured Book Title Release �Sad Joys on Deployment�
A Surgeon journeys into the confronting world of military surgery in war zones distressed by civil war, humanitarian disasters and battlefield conflict.
Author: Greg Bruce
Memoir
140mms X 216mms
338 pages, including 13 pages of colour photographs
ISBN: 978-0-9578709-6-3
RRP $29.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia

The Book
Greg Bruce is an orthopaedic surgeon who served in the Royal Australian Air Force. Between 1995 and 2008, he was sent overseas on ten military deployments to humanitarian disasters, local conflicts and war zones, including the most attacked US base in Iraq.
The restricted medical resources, dangers and harsh living conditions made military surgery very different from civilian practice.
There were good experiences and horrible experiences.
There were contrasts:
Ghastly military wounds. Loss of limbs. Simple sprains and pains.
Friendly allied military forces. Hostile enemy forces
Local civilians, some welcoming, some resentful.
Enjoying good accommodation and food. Coping with the bad.
Finally there was readjustment and reflection on return home. Are you ever the same again?
Greg Bruce was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his military service in 2007.

Reviews
�a fascinating account of a surgeon�s perspective on military conflicts. The exciting challenges and professional achievement, the joys, and the dreadful nature of war and natural disaster-related injuries, the sad, will appeal to a wide range of readers, military and non-military, medical and non-medical, alike.
� Wings Magazine Air Force Association
I gladly rate Sad Joys on Deployment four out of four stars. These are fascinating accounts of a doctor�s view of military conflicts. As much as I have read several books with military themes, I had never read a similar work written through the eyes of a doctor. The book is exciting and describes several events, having no apparent flaw. � OnLine Book Club
This was a very interesting peek into a world not often opened to the reading public. � Modern War Jul-Aug 2021

Author Bio
Greg Bruce was born on All Saints� Day and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Rose Park Primary School and Norwood High School. He acquired his medical degree from Adelaide University in 1970 and moved to New Zealand for his intern years immediately after graduation.
He remained in New Zealand to train in orthopaedic surgery and completed his last two years of training in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, England. He then returned to an academic position in Sydney, Australia. Later, he moved into private practice.
He was recruited into the Royal Australian Air Force specialist reserve as an orthopaedic surgeon in 1988, and this led to the ten overseas deployments that are the subject of this book. He reached the rank of group captain and retired in 2013.
Honours and awards received during his service include Membership of the Order of Australia (MBE).

Featured Book Release “Growing Wings”Author: Phillip RosewarneBook Two of a trilogyAustralian Historical Fiction322 page...
13/10/2022

Featured Book Release “Growing Wings”
Author: Phillip Rosewarne
Book Two of a trilogy
Australian Historical Fiction
322 pages
ISBN: 978-0-6484916-9-9
RRP $24.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia

About the Book
Jess was not meant to be, but her tenacity to overcome adversities moulded a personality determined to survive. In a twist of fate, Jess is forced to leave Sydney as a young teenager without a legal identity to make her home in a remote Kimberley cattle station in Western Australia. She deviously achieves notoriety through her talent for writing.
The story follows her passage to womanhood, which includes her connection with a motley crew of cattlemen and interaction with a handful of Aboriginal people who live the traditional way of life of their ancestors. Revelations of her mysterious misdemeanours, and fame as a writer, lead to her re-entanglement with the dark forces that made it necessary for her to leave Sydney. This sets off a chain of events including a court case that Jess faces with the help from those who seek justice.

Author bio
Phillip Rosewarne has lived and worked in various places on the east coast of Australia, his first job being for a shipping company. After working in New Guinea, Phillip was a project clerk for the Australian government in Canberra and the Northern Territory, where he worked in Katherine and Darwin, initially for the Commonwealth Department of Works, and then for three years as head storeman for Woolworths in the Darwin area, two years either side of Cyclone Tracy. Phillip bought a cattle property in Queensland, which he operated for four years.
After returning to Canberra, he spent the next twenty-five years at the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industries, as it was then known. During that time, he worked in a science bureau within several primary industry sections. He gained a Certificate of Horticulture from the Tafe College and an Applied Science Degree from the University of Canberra.
Phillip always had a desire to write novels as opposed to scientific papers. He began writing shortly after leaving school, and the passion to write never left him. It was only later in life that he had the opportunity to write fiction on a more permanent basis.
Phillip is currently retired, and lives in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney.

Featured Book Release �A Pedagogue Tale Teller�Author: Bob CampbellFamily History166 pagesISBN: 978-0-6484916-8-2RRP $19...
10/10/2022

Featured Book Release �A Pedagogue Tale Teller�
Author: Bob Campbell
Family History
166 pages
ISBN: 978-0-6484916-8-2
RRP $19.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne,, Australia

Blurb
For relations, my stories contribute to ongoing genealogy.
From teachers and associates, I acknowledge kindly fellowship and support for our students.
For my pupils and students, I recall our exciting schooldays and the privilege of sharing your childhood.
For community sharers, please allow me to treasure your friendships and ongoing involvement in community roles.
Peg and I are very happy sharers of our cooperative endeavours

Author bio
My writings record significant events of a lifetime and allude to historic happenings. I�ve referred to � �DMC� (Father�s) and the �Campbells Down Under� books that lead into my era.
May we all look forward to our family descendants for ongoing records of these Campbells!

Featured New Book Title “Romancing My Fantasies”Revelations of a heartbroken soulMemoirAuthor:Teri Galea-Thorne ISBN: 97...
07/10/2022

Featured New Book Title “Romancing My Fantasies”
Revelations of a heartbroken soul
Memoir
Author:Teri Galea-Thorne
ISBN: 978-0-6484916-7-5
180pp
RRP $24.95
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia

Blurb
When life serves you nothing but lemons, you have a choice: hit the tequila with a dash of salt or make lemonade and sparkle.
Not that it is always that simple. As the author of Romancing My Fantasies learns early in life, bullying and harassment have a way of ripping out the humanity in you.
Which raises the question: do you respond with a similar volley of torment, or stand your ground and maintain your integrity?
Teri Galea-Thorne goes looking for the answers in this rollicking no-holds-barred, warts ‘n’ all trip down a memory lane that ranges high and low through the gamut of emotions.
This often raw account tells of her suffering at the hands of practically everyone she meets — and shows how it has shaped her into the woman she has become. For anyone who seeks to know and understand the woman behind the author, this is the book to read.
So many lovers remembered — and forgotten. Schoolday relationships — the bitter and bad, the good and joyful. The often fragile family ties and the workplace dramas.
How many such experiences do we recall — and with fondness, bitterness or regrets? Do we think of them always, often or never?
Romancing My Fantasies is a ripping yarn, an enchanting and reflective story laced with an undercurrent of humour. A thoughtful story for anyone who has loved and lost, and survived to tell the tale.
One for the romantics in us all.


Author Bio
Teri Galea-Thorne was born in Sydney, Australia, but raised in Townsville, North Queensland. She graduated from James Cook University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English. Teri has worked in a various industries, notably insurance, and currently works in a warehouse distributing bread products. Her experiences have granted her a point of view on life she believes most would not know or understand. Writing has always been her muse and solace, although until now she has never been published. Most of her more than twenty manuscripts are science-fiction.fantasy. In 2014, she undertook a course in scriptwriting and has had a few plays produced in Townsville since 2015, including three major productions. A recent play has been accepted in a workshopping competition. She still lives in Townsville with her mother and Cardigan Welsh corgi, Princess.

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