Collection: Reference

The Macquarie Concise Dictionary, like its parent dictionary, continues to change, adapt and re-adjust to reflect Australian language. It is both international and uniquely Australian, making it the standard dictionary for all Australians.

Stories of the river itself and disastrous floods are ample testimony that the lives of early settlers were not easy. The author is a fifth generation member of a Hawkesbury district family. His aim is to project the images of the people of the parish.

The Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-spe...

From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary creative writers, selected work that represents the range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. Includes journalism, petitions and political letters from 19th and 20th centuries and major works...