Publications
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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 ...