Publications
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Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
(2008)
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for ...
Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific
(2005)
Sustainable development; Social life; Customs; Civilazation; Pacific area
Delivering Policy Reform
(2011)
Predictable and unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy-making operates. Governments at all ...
Dealing with Uncertainties in Policing Serious Crime
(2010)
Grappling with uncertainties is at the heart of investigating serious crime. At a time when such crime is becoming more complex and resources are increasingly stretched, this book draws together research and practice ...
Defence Policy-Making: A Close-Up View, 1950-1980
(2008)
Sir Arthur Tange was perhaps the most powerful Secretary of the Australian Defence Department and one of the most powerful of the great ‘mandarins’ who dominated the Commonwealth Public Service between the 1940s and the ...
Demographic and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Indigenous Australian Lifecourse
(2010)
Across almost all standard indicators, the Indigenous population of Australia has worse outcomes than the non-Indigenous population. Despite the abundance of statistics and a plethora of government reports on Indigenous ...
New Accountabilities, New Challenges
(2015)
This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. It provides an excellent series of critiques ...
China's Domestic Transformation in a Global Context
(2015)
The phrase ‘New Normal’ captures the ongoing shift in the pattern and drivers of China’s economic growth. China’s new growth rate is both slower and imposing difficult structural change. These new economic conditions are ...
Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research
(2015)
This volume explores the complexity, diversity and interwoven nature of taxonomic pursuits within the context of explorations of humans and related species. It also pays tribute to Professor Colin Groves, whose work has ...
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities
(2015)
There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the ‘stone-age’ is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the ...