Publications
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No Truck with the Chilean Junta!
(2014)
When lorry drivers in Northampton slapped stickers on their cabs declaring ‘No truck with the Chilean Junta!’ they were doing more than threatening to boycott. They were asserting their own identity as proud unionists and ...
Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric
(2014)
This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases the variety of methods available for studying political speech, including ...
Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage
(2014)
This book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western ...
Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea
(2013)
Papua New Guinea’s general election in 2007 attracted particular interest for several reasons. Not only did it follow what was widely acknowledged as the country’s worst election ever, in 2002 (in which elections in six ...
A New Idea Each Morning
(2013)
In the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century leaders in Western countries worried about a food surplus. The hardships of the Great Depression were intensified by a glut of wheat and consequent low prices ...
Pacific Missionary George Brown: 1835-1917 Wesleyan Methodist Church
(2013)
George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, ...
A Good Life
(2013)
This book is a story. It’s a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
(2013)
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern
Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform
(2013)
Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform asks why, despite all the high expectations, the Japanese public’s desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary ...
My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia (CAEPR Monograph 33)
(2013)
Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise ...