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Jim Haynes

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THE BIG NEWS IS ALL ABOUT SOME TRIPS AWAY WITH JIM and other artists, firstly to NORFOLK ISLAND and later this year to FIJI !

FIRST things FIRST .... The Norfolk Island trip is a special experience. For more details - please click here

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Another Jim Haynes special book hits the shops next week - get it here first along with a heap of extra special deals for Christmas! All prices include postage within Australia.

The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids
The latest in the Jim Haynes book range - ideal as an introduction to the world of verse for children and grand children.


Jim has been extra busy - there are also two CD's The Jim Haynes Collection and Australian Comic Rhymed Verse (with Grant Luhrs) - check these out - ideal Chrissy gifts - order on line.


The ABC Book of Australian Country Music has just been released - order your copy now!


Smoky Dawson - A Life - purchase this book and help fundraise for a sculptured statue of Smoky to be erected in Tamworth, the scene of many of his triumphs over 60 years.

 

JIM'S AUSTRALIANA SPOTS
heard 2UE EACH SUNDAY at 12.30 pm

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Norfolk Island - AUSTRALIA'S 2nd European Settlement is UNAUSTRALIAN!
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Sydney's Lost Pony Tracks
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The CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia
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Remembering Smoky Dawson
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AN AUSSIE CELEBRATION - more than music - Tamworth's other Awards
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Aussie Country Music & Tamworth Festival Countdown
Archives from 2009
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Australia's Dangerous Creatures
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Old Fashioned Aussie Christmas
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Wartime Evacuations
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Sydney Harbour Bridge Icon
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A FORGOTTEN AUSSIE HERO - The Man Who Conquered the Mountains - John Whitton and The Great Zig-Zag
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How Country Music tells the Australian Stories
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The AUSSIE sense of humour - Part 2
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The AUSSIE sense of humour
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Melbourne Cup Trivia
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Rhymes of Childhood
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A Great Colonial CHARACTER' or 'Truth is Stranger Than Fiction'
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NSW Poetry Championships at Morriset
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The Mildura Irrigation Colony Experiment - a FAILURE that succeeded !
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The Wild Colonial Boy
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Taronga Park Zoo
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The Jockeys are striking
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Father's Day
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Golden Wattle Day
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Australian Country Music
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Making do with substitute foods
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Rabbits
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Stuff our Parents Said
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The Age of "Aunties" - some forgotten Aussie remedies
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Gardiner and Hall - two famous bushrangers
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More on our Aussie/US Heritage
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US Aussie Icons
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Place Names of Sydney Harbour
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Aussie Slang Terms
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Our Great Aussie Carton icons
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Charles Kingsford Smith
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Truce at Gallipoli
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Aussie Icon Chesty Bond
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Aussie Mum's and Women
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Sydney Siders - Aussie Names and Loyalties
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Regional Aussie Food Oddities
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Autumn Racing in Sydney
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Showtime in Sydney
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Autumn Racing – Sydney’s Lost Racetracks   
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Sydney Easter Show
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Seniors’ Week
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Aussie Tombstones Part 2
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Jules Francois Archibald
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Aussie Tombstones
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Fanciful Furphys and False Facts
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Western Australia
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Gaols and Gallows of Colonial Sydney
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Chokos and Rabbits ... The Depression…
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Tamworth Update
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Aussie Gems - Part 2
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Aussie Gems
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Aussie Beers
Archives from 2008
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Sydney Beach suburbs
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Aussie Christmas
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Sydney Suburb Names
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Migrants and Ethnicity - the 1800's
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Migrants and Ethnicity - our First Migrant
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Aussie connections - the Boer War
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Being a Real Aussie
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Old Aussie Words and Phrases Your Mum Used
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Cup History
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Aussie Baby Names
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Dairies and Milk
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Streets of Sydney - Martin Place
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Two early Governors - Brisbane and Darling
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Early Sydney Harbour and the first Ships
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The Secret Life of C J Dennis
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Aussie Birds and John Gould
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La Perouse - The Man and the Place
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The Battle for "Tel el Eisa"
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How we were linked to the world by cable
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Early Australian postal services
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Latest News

Check out
The trip to Norfolk Island in May

includes Country Music Festival,
Bush Poets Breakfast,
Historical Tours, Accommodation and more


The ABC Book of Australian Country Music

tHE BIG BOOK OF VERSE FOR AUSSIE KIDS
- A NEW BOOK TO ENCOURAGE A LOVE OF VERSE IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

$40 POSTED ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA

ORDER NOW


The ABC Book of Australian Country Music

THE ABC BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC

$45 POSTED ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA

ORDER NOW


Winner of the Golden Gumleaf Award for
BOOK OF THE YEAR at the 14th Annual Bush Laureate Awards 2009

Jim's latest book

From Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, to Barry Humphries and John Williamson - The Book of Australian Popular Rhymed Verse is a unique record of Australia’s heritage, social history, national character and sense of humour.

 


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