Publications
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Professional Social Work in Australia
(2016)
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional social work in the larger, more industrialised ...
Brokers and boundaries. Colonial exploration in indigenous territory
(2016)
Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent ...
Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand. The state of current practice and what needs to be done
(2016)
All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and ...
New Worlds from Below: Informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first-century Northeast Asia
(2017)
In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region’s democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst ...
Vocational Education and Training: The Northern Territory’s history of public philanthropy
(2017)
This book represents the first consolidated history of vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Not only does the story present a chronological account of events, people and institutions, it also offers ...
A Difficult Neighbourhood
(2016)
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most ...
The Lion That Didn't Roar
(2016)
In 2017 it will be Australia’s turn to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), an international organisation set up to regulate the trade in diamonds. Diamonds are a symbol of love, purchased to celebrate ...
Party Rules?
(2016)
"Trust in political parties has never been lower, but we have more and more of them, to the point where voters need magnifying sheets to read ballot papers. What is the relationship between party regulation and the nature ...
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling
(2016)
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling: Australia 1978–2015 presents the full suite of reflection profiles penetrating the whole crust carried in Australia by Geoscience Australia and various partners. The set of ...
Partnership for Change: Australia–China Joint Economic Report
(2016)
The Australia–China Joint Economic Report is the first major independent joint study of the bilateral relationship and has the blessing of both national governments. The Report is an academic policy study by leading ...