A new local history of Oatlands and the surrounding area — compiled by the Oatlands District Historical Society. Oatlands sits in Tasmania's Southern Midlands on the Midland Highway corridor, about 85km north of Hobart and 40 minutes south of Campbell Town. Its main street of intact colonial sandstone buildings is one of the most complete examples of colonial-era architecture in Australia.
An A to Z guide to the gemstone minerals found in Tasmania — published by Mineral Resources Tasmania in the 9th edition of October 2023, with colour photographs throughout. The booklet covers the range of gemstone minerals occurring across the state — where they're found, what they look like, and what conditions they form in. Includes sapphire, topaz, zircon, garnet, diamond, and the range of other gem minerals specific to Tasmanian geological deposits.
On New Year's Day 1915, a picnic train carrying hundreds of Broken Hill residents to the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows picnic was attacked by two men — Mulla Abdullah, an Afghan camel driver, and Gool Mahomed, an ice cream vendor — who opened fire on the train, killing four people and wounding seven before being pursued by a posse and killed.
The two-volume unit history of the 2/12th Battalion AIF, written by Alex Graeme-Evans and published in 1989 and 1991. The 2/12th was a Tasmanian infantry battalion raised at the outbreak of the Second World War, and its history covers service in the Middle East, the defence of Timor, and the Pacific campaign through to the end of the war.
The complete twelve-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, written and edited by C.E.W. Bean and published by Angus & Robertson. The most comprehensive account of Australian involvement in the First World War ever compiled, covering Gallipoli, the Western Front, Sinai and Palestine, Mesopotamia, the war at sea, and the campaigns in New Guinea and the Pacific.

