Focusing on different occupations, the series Colonial People explores aspects of everyday life, job responsibilities and social activities in colonial Australia. Winner of the Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities The Australian Educational Publishing Awards. Key features include extracts from a range of primary and secondary sources, 1st-person narrative features, illustrated 'A Day in the Life' case studies, and hands-on projects. Topics covered include convict labourers, domestic servants, gold diggers and squatters.In Squatters, travel back to the 1860s and meet Sarah, a 12-year-old girl from a squatter family in New South Wales. Interesting and engaging reading.