Publications
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Indigenous participation in Australian economies
(2010)
This volume seeks to contribute to the body of anthropological and historical studies of Indigenous participation in the Australian colonial and post colonial economy. It arises out of a panel on this topic at the annual ...
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
(2008)
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing ...
Indigenous people and the Pilbara mining boom
(2006)
Economic conditions; Aboriginal australians; Western australia
Information Systems Foundations
(2005)
Information systems
Introducing China
(2010)
China’s transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power. Today’s China is proceeding with great seriousness ...
Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye
(2011)
From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Māori women became nationally or internationally renowned. Few reached the heights of international fame accorded Evonne Goolagong or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and few remained ...
Myanmar: State, Community and the Environment
(2007)
Despite deteriorating economic and developmental conditions, worsening environmental problems, and troubles arising from the unresolved status of its ethnic minorities, Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution. ...
Migration and Transnationalism
(2009)
Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia ...
Multiculturalism and Integration
(2011)
Multiculturalism has been the official policy of all Australian governments (Commonwealth and State) since the 1970s. It has recently been criticised, both in Australia and elsewhere. Integration has been suggested as a ...
The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific
(2004)
Politics and government; Militarism; Civil supremacy over the military; Democracy; Asia; Pacific area
Movement, Knowledge, Emotion
(2011)
This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural ...
The Nature of Northern Australia: its natural values, ecological processes and future prospects
(2007)
Northern Australia stands out as one of the largest natural areas remaining on Earth- alongside such global treasures as the Amazon rainforests, the boreal conifer forests of Alaska and Canada, and the polar wilderness of ...
Maverick Mathematician
(2006)
Mathematics; Quantum theory; Aerospace engineers; Biography; Australia
Minding the Gap: Appraising the promise and performance of regulatory reform in Australia
(2008)
‘Mind the Gap!’ is an almost iconic exhortation, originating in the London Underground, warning travellers to be careful when navigating the ‘gap’ between the platform and train. In this volume, Peter Carroll, Rex ...
Managing Consultants
(2006)
Government consultants; Management; Australia
Inside the Canberra Press Gallery
(2011)
Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today’s 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully ...
In Good Faith?: Governing Indigenous Australia through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855
(2011)
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the hands of British colonists, who largely ignored their sovereignty and even their humanity. At the same time, however, a ...
In the service of the Company Volume I
(2005)
Australian agricultural company; Archives; Correspondence; Pioneers; History; Australia
Information Systems Foundations Part Three
(2010)
This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2–3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others ...
History As Policy: Framing the debate on the future of Australia's defence policy
(2007)
The fortieth anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre’s founding provided the opportunity to assemble many of Australia’s leading analysts and commentators to review some of the more significant issues that ...
Gunnar Landtman in Papua: 1910 to 1912
(2010)
Despite poverty and neglect the coastal Kiwai of the northern Torres Strait and Fly estuary are a strong and vibrant people with a long tradition of work in the marine industries of the Torres Strait. Regrettably their ...
The Hmong of Australia
(2010)
The Hmong are among Australia’s newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern ...
Green Carbon Part 2.
(2010)
This report is the second in a series that examines the role of natural forests and woodlands in the storage of carbon. Understanding the role of natural ecosystems in carbon storage is an important part of solving the ...
Howard's Long March
(2009)
Australia’s strategic depiction of China has assumed increased importance as it attempts to harmonise economic interests (focusing on China) with security interests (primarily the United States). In this period of strategic ...
Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians
(2004)
Health and hygienes; Health services; Medical care; Costs; Aboriginal australians; Torres strait islanders; Australia
The Rudd Government
(2010)
This edited collection examines Commonwealth administration under the leadership Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from 2007-2010. This was a remarkable period in Australian history: Rudd’s government was elected in 2007 with an ...
Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family
(2010)
Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and ...
Rising China
(2009)
Asia looks and feels very different now compared to the days of the Cold War. The sense that Asia now works differently can be traced to a single source – the re-emergence of China. China was the dominant power in greater ...
Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific
(2005)
Constitutional law; Constitutions; Government; Oceania
Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing peace in Bougainville
(2010)
Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up ...
The Role of Departmental Secretariats
(2009)
Andrew Podger’s monograph, The Role of Departmental Secretaries, Personal reflections on the breadth of responsibilities today, is an important contribution to the broader public policy discourse in Australia. Andrew has ...
Remembering Hedley
(2008)
Remembering Hedley commemorates the life of Hedley Bull (1932–85), a pivotal figure in the fields of international relations and strategic studies. Its publication coincides with the official opening on 6 August 2008 of ...
Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods
(2009)
Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as ...
A Quest for True Islam
(2007)
This study presents the contemporary Islamic resurgence movement among young people in Bandung Indonesia, focusing on its emergence, development and routinisation. It traces various factors and conditions that contributed ...
Re-Visioning Arts and Cultural Policy: Current Impasses and Future Directions
(2007)
In this monograph, Jennifer Craik undertakes a critical and historical analysis of the main imperatives of arts and cultural policy in Australia. With forensic skill she examines the financial and policy instruments commonly ...
Dictionary of World Biography: Third edition
(2016)
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and ...
Bougainville before the conflict
(2015)
One of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville has a remarkable history. Tragically, it is as the site of devastating civil conflict that Bougainville is perhaps best known. In exploring the rich ...
Bayesian Methods for Statistical Analysis
(2015)
Bayesian methods for statistical analysis is a book on statistical methods for analysing a wide variety of data. The book consists of 12 chapters, starting with basic concepts and covering numerous topics, including Bayesian ...
Confronting Fiji Futures
(2016)
Fiji, post-independence, has seen several governments, two military coups and, amidst sweeping social, economic and political changes, the presence of divisive identity politics in its journey towards a united, collective ...
Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects
(2015)
Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki ...