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José Felix, Anita Ulan, Salvador Magno Ximenes, Gersio Amaral, Flaviana Freitas, Zelia Vital, Agostinho Joel da Costa, Pedro Aparicio Guterres, Ema de Sousa Freitas.
Edited by Margie Beck AM
“Raising A Country is more than a simple collection of testimonies: it is a living memory of a collective journey – of sacrifice and hope, of resilience and service. Through the voices of its alumni, it reveals the profound and lasting impact that ICFP has had – and continues to have – on strengthening the national education system and on forming citizens committed to the common good.
May this Compendium inspire present and future generations, and may the light that shines in Baucau continue to illuminate the entire country.”
HE José Ramos-Horta, President, Timor-Leste
126 pages / 210×148 mm / Paperback / September 2025
This collection of speeches and writings includes José Ramos-Horta’s most important speeches from 1992 to the end of 2017.
Selected by His Excellency, the book includes the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, early speeches on peace in East Timor, and on critical international issues such as Guinea-Bissau, Myanmar, Iran, and North Korea. It also includes speeches relating to His Excellency’s more recent work for the United Nations as the Chair of the High-Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations and his role on the UN’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation.
"I hope this book will inform, increase understanding, and inspire a sense of urgency, for only when these challenges are understood and felt by all, will there be concerted global action." – H.E. José Ramos-Horta
Dr Jana Vytrhlik
Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney is an important publication showcasing Australia’s visual heritage of fine Judaica objects, artworks, and unique synagogue architecture.
In 1844, 180 years ago, the emerging Sydney Jewish congregation consecrated the first synagogue designed and built in Australia. Three decades later, in 1874, architect Thomas Rowe won the design competition with his bold vision for the new Great Synagogue, one of the most admired Victorian buildings in Australia. These significant events prepared the way for the future development of a distinct Australian Jewish visual identity.
For the first time, Jana Vytrhlik in her book Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney brings to light stories of long lost synagogues and the hidden past of art, artefacts, and architecture. Richly illustrated, this book reveals the presence of a Jewish cultural heritage and important synagogue architecture in Sydney.
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In Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the unseen in nature, the arts, and architecture, biographer and architectural historian Zeny Edwards invites readers into a meditative journey where language, nature, art, and architecture converge.
Non‑linear and fragmentary, Zeny's essays argue that true meaning lives in the absence beneath the layers of time and space, in the periphery, in the silence, and in the interplay of light and dark. She delves deeply into the intricacies of specificity, hyper-reality, antithesis and the essence of being present.
Zeny believes that by adopting the practice of“slow looking”, we can transform moments of everyday life into new and meaningful ways of enriching our connection with the world and ourselves.
Twenty-one thousand New South Wales men and women dead. Thousands more maimed or permanently incapacitated.
This was the reality that sculptor George Rayner Hoff endeavoured to commemorate after he was commissioned in 1930 to create the sculptures for Sydney’s Anzac Memorial.
While honouring the dead, his heart is clearly also with those who were left behind – the mothers, wives, lovers, and children, who mourned their fallen loved ones or cared for those who returned injured. These women were the emotional heart of Hoff’s enigmatic statue Sacrifice because they had to face their loss every day.
Rayner Hoff’s incredible collection of art deco masterpieces in the heart of Sydney, makes the Anzac Memorial not only a place to honour our lost soldiers, but a must-see destination for art lovers.
For reasons lost in history, Hoff’s messages of empathic condolence remained silent ever since the Memorial opened on 24 November 1934. In The Naked Soldier, Dr John Stace examines Hoff’s sculptures in more detail than ever before and unravels their meanings through meticulous research.
The Naked Solder was Highly Commended in The National Trust Heritage Awards 2019
An Engineer’s Story is one of adventure and achievement. It is the story of Malcolm McNeall, a policeman’s son, who became an engineer, a businessman, a grazier, an occasional pianist, and a philanthropist who valued integrity above all.
Driven to seek experiences that would broaden his horizons, after completing his engineering degree at the Department of Railways NSW in 1953, Malcolm worked in Malaya, Canada, and the United States, then returned to Australia to start his family.
Malcolm attributed his success to appointing ‘the right staff’ and to inspiring and training his recruits to become expert engineers and businesspeople. Sylvia McNeall’s book tells of her husband's life as a successful owner of several businesses and three significant rural New South Wales properties. But also his good fortune to have a large, close-knit family, including a son, also an engineer who took on many business responsibilities, and a daughter who loved living on and operating the rural properties.
184 pages / 234x156 mm / Paperback / 978-1-7644072-6-7 / March 2026
Now available in a paperback edition.
The work of Melocco Bros is embedded in the architecture of Australia. In mosaic, terrazzo, sgraffito, and scagliola across Sydney, these exotic terms are presented in stunning images as the story unfolds about how three extraordinary brothers who migrated from a small village in northern Italy to Sydney made their mark in history, painting with stone.
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In 1911, Donald Thomson at 10 years old was a lone figure in Melbourne’s Bayside, with its billabongs and creeks meandering to the sea. In his ‘Naturalist’s Diary’, he recorded his collection of wildflowers to wattles, seabirds to tiny blue wrens, mammals and reptiles, to fish and insects of every shape and hue. By 16, he was part-time editor of a national nature magazine.
As Australia’s first home-grown anthropologist, he met the only people who truly shared his worldview: the First Nations people of northern and central Australia. He wrote, ‘We learned much about their language, social life, and customs, and of their elaborate rituals and tabus … and we grew to love these people.’ It was this love for a world threatened with extinction that drove Donald Thomson for the rest of his life, fighting for justice amid a threatened invasion and the reality of a hostile and unrepentant occupation.
The UNESCO-inscribed ‘Thomson Collection’, which the Thomson family donated to Museums Victoria in 2024, documents more than 90 Indigenous communities and includes 11,000 photographs, 7620 metres of film, and 2500 pages of meticulously recorded field notes, making it one of the world’s largest ethnographic collections. One of these photos – a group of ten men in their bark canoes on the Arafura Swamp – inspired Rolf de Heer’s critically acclaimed 2006 film Ten Canoes.
Thomson is remembered as a friend of the Yolngu people and a champion of understanding Indigenous Australian culture and society by non-Indigenous Australians.
‘A passionate and compassionate exploration of an important Australian who despite clashes with the academy, missionaries, and government carried his fight for Indigenous justice and rights.’ – Rita Metzenrath, AIATSIS Librarian, Indigenous rights activist and co-author of Big Sickness Come Ailan
After decades of suffering and heroic resistance, the people of Timor-Leste expressed their will to become a sovereign state on August 30, 1999, affirming their right to self-determination and independence by an overwhelming majority.
In 2024, Timor-Leste celebrated the 25th anniversary of that historic moment, which put an end to a final wave of brutal violence unleashed by the occupying forces, and initiated the transfer of power to the Timorese people, and leaders freely chosen by them.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão was the central protagonist of the epic resistance and liberation struggle. Now in his second term as prime minister, he is a voice of development and vision. The speeches selected for this volume illustrate the obstacles the Timorese people have overcome, their successes, and what is still to be done. They also show a country finding its place in the world as it approaches full membership of ASEAN, expected in 2025.
