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 ...