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The Fatal Shore. By Robert Hughes. Collins Harvill, London 1987. Pp. xvi + 688. $39.95 cloth.Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land. By Henry Reynolds. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. ix + 234. $14.95 paper.This is what happened: Historical narratives by Aborigines. Edited by Luise Hercus and Peter Sutton. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 1986. Pp. x + 341. $22.95 cloth.Australian Catholics: The Contribution of Catholics to the Development of Australian Society. By Edmund Campion. Penguin, Ringwood 1987. Pp. 280. $19.95 cloth.James Duhig. By T.P. Boland. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1986. Pp. xv + 435. $40.00 cloth.Beyond Belief: Theosophy in Australia 1879-1939. By Jill Roe. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. xi + 396. $19.95 paper.'A Bright and Savage Land'. Scientists in Colonial Australia. By Ann Moyal. Collins, Sydney 1986. Pp. 192. $45.00 cloth.With Conscious Purpose: A History of Town Planning in South Australia. Edited by Alan Hutchings and Raymond Bunker. Wakefield Press in association with Royal Australian Planning Institute (South Australian Division), Adelaide 1986. Pp. xiv + 122. $24.95 paper.The Adelaide City Plan: Fiction and Fact. By Donald Leslie Johnson and Donald Lang-mead. Wakefield Press, Adelaide 1986. Pp. 42. $15.95 paper.Neglected and Criminal: Foundations of Child Welfare Legislation in Victoria. By Donella Jaggs. Phillip Institute of Technology, Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Bundoora 1986. Pp. iii + 211. $10.00 paper.Her Natural Destiny: The Education of Women in New South Wales. By Noeline Kyle. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. vii + 222. $19.95 cloth.The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates. By Alison Mackinnon. Wake-field Press in association with the University of Adelaide Foundation, Adelaide 1986. Pp. 228. $17.95 paper.The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria, 1915-1938. By Marilyn Lake. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1987. Pp. xviii + 317. $35.00 cloth.High Hopes: The Men and Motives of the Australian Round Table. By Leonie Foster. Melbourne University Press in Association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne 1986. Pp. xviii + 294. $25.00 cloth.Labor Judge: The Life and Times of Judge Alfred William Foster. By Constance Larmour. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1985. Pp. 286. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.From SGIO to Suncorp. By Malcolm I. Thomis and Murdoch Wales. Suncorp Insurance and Finance, Brisbane 1986. Pp. xii + 272. $18.95 cloth.The 1950s: . . . how Australia became a modern society, and everyone got a house and car. By Stella Lees and June Senyard. Hyland House, Melbourne 1987. Pp. 1987. Pp. 157. $24.95 paper.Tough Times: Australia in the Seventies. By Frank Crowley. Illustrated by Neil Moore. William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne 1986. Pp. 512. $39.95 cloth.Chosen: The Jews in Australia. By Hilary L. Rubinstein. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.Community of Fate: Memoirs of German Jews in Melbourne. Edited by John Foster. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1986. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.Australia and the Jewish Refugees 1933-1948, By Michael Blakeney. Croom Helm, Sydney 1985. Pp. iii + 330. $29.95 cloth.Stalag Australia: German Prisoners of War in Australia. By Barbara Winter. Angus & Robertson, Sydney and London 1986. Pp.xv + 406. $29.95 cloth.The Writing on the Wall: The British Commonwealth and Aggression in the East 1931-1935. By E.M. Andrews Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. xv + 228. $29.95 cloth.Menzies and Churchill at War: A Controversial New Account of the 1941 Struggle for Power. By David Day. Angus & Robertson, Sydney and London 1986. Pp. ix + 271. $29.95 cloth.A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study of Australian-American Relations between 1900 and 1975. By Norman Harper. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1987. Pp. x + 416. $34.95 paper.Maternity in Dispute: New Zealand 1920-1939. By Philippa Mein Smith. Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington 1986. Pp. xvii + 180. $14.95 cloth.White Women in Fiji 1835-1930: The Ruin of Empire? By Claudia Knapman. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1986. Pp. xiv + 226.$ 15.95 paper.The Totem and the Tricolour: A Short History of New Caledonia since 1774. By Martyn Lyons. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. xi + 148. $14.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaelogists in Victorian England 1838-1886. By Philip-pa Levine. Cambridge University Press. Pp.ix +210. $89.50 cloth.Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900-1918. By Sandra Stanley Holton. Cambridge University Press 1986. Pp. xi + 201. $75.50 cloth.Working in Metal: Management and Labour in the Metal Industries of Europe and the USA. By Chris McGuffie. Merlin Press, London 1985. Pp. xl + 302. £17.50 cloth.Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe. By G.R. Quaife. Croom Helm, London and Sydney 1987. Pp.235. $82.50 cloth.Melbourne Historical Journal, vol. 18, 1987. Department of History, University of Melbourne, $4.00.Past Imperfect: The Sydney University Historical Journal, no. 1, 1987. Department of History, University of Sydney, $4.50.

N.Y., California prosecutors said to look at bank, individuals Federal prosecutors are investigating Wells Fargo & Co. in connection with the bank's sales practices after it agreed to pay $185 million in fines for opening more than 2 million unauthorized accounts, according to a person familiar with the Justice Department investigation. [Extracted from the article]

Following the sweeping indictment of FIFA officials released last week, the U.S. soccer parents who brought the lawsuit went on the offensive Tuesday, urging the judge not to toss their claims without considering that leaders of the organization are now implicated in corruption. King said FIFA lawyer Christopher Boehning refused to agree to allow the criminal complaint or news articles about it into the case. [Extracted from the article]

Fitbit Inc., on the verge of its initial public offering, was accused by Jawbone Inc. of "systematically plundering" employees and critical trade secrets from the rival maker of wearable devices. Starting this year, Fitbit recruiters contacted a third of Jawbone's employees and hired at least five, some of whom used USB thumb drives to steal proprietary information as they left, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in state court in San Francisco. [Extracted from the article]

Barclays said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which issued the fines in July 2013, doesn't have regulatory authority over commodity futures contracts and has no case because the bank didn't receive or deliver electricity under the contracts in question. The case is Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Barclays Bank Plc, 13-cv-02093, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento). [Extracted from the article]

Lawyers for Franklin are urging a San Francisco federal magistrate judge to sanction Miele's attorneys for even bringing the lawsuit. The Bank of New York's offers to track down Miele were never taken up by Johnson and Franklin, even though they had Miele's Social Security number since 1973, Miele said. Miele contends that due to the negligence of Franklin and Johnson, he's now entitled to 2.53 million Franklin shares, after splits, which he values at about $136 million. [Extracted from the article]

Benjamin Trounson, a U.S. spokesman for Mumbai-based Tata, said the company is confident Heldt's claims are baseless and will vigorously defend itself against them. Heldt filed the case as a class-action on behalf of other Tata employees. [Extracted from the article]

Class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accuses Lenovo of pre-installing software that "surreptitiously monitors, intercepts and transmits user information" in order to supply consumers with additional ads on Web pages. * Suit says Superfish hijacks legitimate connections, monitors activity and injects unrequested advertising into legitimate pages, presented as pop-up ads. * Suit claims violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse act, violation of federal wiretap law, fraud, breach of contract and trespass. [Extracted from the article]

Presents the poem "Larger Than Life," by Pam Calabrese MacLean. First Line: I Saw your husband today. Last Line: Is he anything like me?