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 ...