Publications
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Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea
(2010)
Papua New Guinea has a complex ‘law and order’ problem and an entrenched epidemic of HIV. This book explores their interaction. It also probes their joint challenges and opportunities—most fundamentally for civic security, ...
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
(2008)
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic ...
The China Boom and its Discontents
(2005)
Economic policy; Commercial policy; Industrialization; Economic conditions; China
Collaborative Governance
(2008)
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we ...
Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji
(2008)
May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s ...
China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change
(2008)
China’s Dilemma—Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising ...
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
(2006)
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
A Bird that flies with two wings
(2009)
This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move ...
Black Words White Page
(2004)
Australian literature; Aboriginals; 20th century history; History; Australia
Capturing the Wealth From Tuna: case stude's from the Pacific
(2008)
The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is home to the largest tuna fishery in the world – around half of the world’s tuna supply – and is a vital economic resource for Pacific island countries. The potential of the Pacific ...
Calvin for the Third Millennium
(2008)
This work is a series of sermons produced by Emeritus Professor Hans Mol, and based on Biblical texts, the Commentaries of John Calvin on these texts, and on Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Mol is Australia’s ...
Business and the Risk of Crime in China
(2011)
The book analyses the results of a large scale victimisation survey that was conducted in 2005-06 with businesses in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an. It also provides comprehensive background materials on crime and ...
Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone
(2007)
Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, ...
The Centrelink Experiment
(2008)
Centrelink was established in 1997 as part of the Howard government’s bold experiment in re-framing social policy and re-shaping service delivery. Centrelink was the embodiment of a key tenet of the Howard vision for public ...
Bridging the 'Know-Do' Gap
(2010)
Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens. Good health and well-being in the early years are the foundations for well-adjusted and productive adult lives and a thriving society. But children are being let down in Australia ...
Echoes of the Tambaran
(2011)
In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran —a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through ...
Dance of the Nomad
(2010)
The notebooks of A. D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet’s intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, ...
Connected Worlds
(2006)
Transnational history; Australia
Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia
(2007)
The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve ...
Complex Science for a Complex World
(2006)
Human ecology; Australia