Publications
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Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories
(2015)
Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the ...
New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures
(2016)
‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana ...
Regulatory Theory: Foundations and applications
(2017)
This volume introduces readers to regulatory theory. Aimed at practitioners, postgraduate students and those interested in regulation as a cross-cutting theme in the social sciences, Regulatory Theory includes chapters on ...
Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
(2017)
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, ...
What if we could reimagine copyright?
(2017)
What if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? What if we could design a law, from scratch, unconstrained by existing treaty obligations, business models and questions of ...
Australian Clinical Legal Education
(2017)
Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from case book method to the ...
Tranformations of Gender in Melanesia
(2017)
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How ...
Disturbances in Heaven. Made in China Yearbook 2016
(2017)
Labour and civil society are two fundamental components of international discussions concerning China today. Whether it is the arrest of labour activists or rights lawyers, the adoption of new industrial policies, or the ...
Joro's Youth: The first part of the Mongolian epic of Geser Khan
(2017)
The epic of King Gesar of Ling is the national oral epic of Tibet, sung by itinerant bards in their land for many centuries but not recorded in print until recent times. Spreading widely beyond Tibet, there are extant ...
War, Strategy and History: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert O’Neill
(2016)
This is a collection of essays in honour of eminent Professor Robert O’Neill. Each chapter was written by prominent academics and practitioners who have had a professional connection with Professor O’Neill during his long ...
Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance
(2016)
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures ...
Narrow But Endlessly Deep: The struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy
(2016)
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies ...
Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy: Essays in Honour of Paul Dibb
(2016)
Paul Dibb AM has had an extraordinary career. He enjoys an international scholarly reputation of the highest order, while at the same time he has done much distinguished public service. He was a pioneer in moving back and ...
The Fijian Colonial Experience: A study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II
(2016)
Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their ...
China's New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 1. Reform, Resources and Climate Change
(2016)
China’s change to a new model of growth, now called the ‘new normal’, was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, ...
Black, White and Gold. Goldmining in Papua New Guinea 1878–1930
(2016)
Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining ...
Engaging the neighbours. Australia and ASEAN since 1974
(2016)
From modest beginnings in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become the premier regional institution in Southeast Asia. The 10 members are pursuing cooperation to develop the ‘ASEAN Community’ and ...
The Doubters Dilemma
(2016)
This book explores the extent and causes of attrition and retention in university Language & Culture (L&C) programs through a detailed analysis of an institutional case study at The Australian National University (ANU). ...
Managing Consultants. A practical guide for busy public sector managers
(2016)
Public service cutbacks have increased reliance on consultants. But new legislation and rules governing the procurement of services from consultants are scattered over different legislative instruments. The first edition ...
Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
(2016)
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic ...
In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Servicemen and Women
(2016)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and ...
The New Pacific Diplomacy
(2016)
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm ...
A Mission Divided
(2016)
This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work ...
Journeys into the Rainforest (Terra Australis 43)
(2016)
This monograph presents the results of archaeological research that takes a longitudinal approach to interpreting and understanding Aboriginal–European contact. It focuses on a small but unique area of tropical rainforest ...
China & ANU
(2016)
The Pacific War and its aftermath radically transformed Australian perceptions of what was then called the ‘Near North’. Many recognised that in the postwar world Australia’s strategic interests and economic fortunes called ...
Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation
(2016)
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social ...
The First Fleet Piano: Volume One and Two
(2015)
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable ...
Master poets, ritual masters: The art of oral composition among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia
(2016)
This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period ...
Engaging Indigenous Economy. Debating diverse approaches
(2016)
The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate. Jon Altman has been intellectually engaged with Indigenous economic activity for almost 40 years, most ...
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia. Investing in biodiversity and other ecosystem services on farms
(2016)
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia is a book about the birds and the beef — more specifically it is about the billions of dollars that governments pay farmers around the world each year to protect and ...
Professional Social Work in Australia
(2016)
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional social work in the larger, more industrialised ...
Brokers and boundaries. Colonial exploration in indigenous territory
(2016)
Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent ...
Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand. The state of current practice and what needs to be done
(2016)
All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and ...
New Worlds from Below: Informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first-century Northeast Asia
(2017)
In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region’s democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst ...
Vocational Education and Training: The Northern Territory’s history of public philanthropy
(2017)
This book represents the first consolidated history of vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Not only does the story present a chronological account of events, people and institutions, it also offers ...
A Difficult Neighbourhood
(2016)
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most ...
The Lion That Didn't Roar
(2016)
In 2017 it will be Australia’s turn to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), an international organisation set up to regulate the trade in diamonds. Diamonds are a symbol of love, purchased to celebrate ...
Party Rules?
(2016)
"Trust in political parties has never been lower, but we have more and more of them, to the point where voters need magnifying sheets to read ballot papers. What is the relationship between party regulation and the nature ...
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling
(2016)
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling: Australia 1978–2015 presents the full suite of reflection profiles penetrating the whole crust carried in Australia by Geoscience Australia and various partners. The set of ...
Partnership for Change: Australia–China Joint Economic Report
(2016)
The Australia–China Joint Economic Report is the first major independent joint study of the bilateral relationship and has the blessing of both national governments. The Report is an academic policy study by leading ...