Publications
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Dislocating the Frontier
(2006)
History; Frontier; Pioneer life; Australia
Does History Matter?: Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand
(2009)
This volume of essays represents the first systematic attempt to explore the use of the past in the making of citizenship and immigration policy in Australia and New Zealand. Focussing on immigration and citizenship policy ...
Directions in Australian Electoral Reform: Professionalism and Partisanship in Electoral Management
(2012)
Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Australian electoral commissions continue to have a professional, non-partisan approach to the management of elections. Yet ...
Double Vision - Asian Accounts of Australia
(2011)
Do Australians care about what their Asian neighbours think of them — and does it matter if they don’t? This collection of essays reveals that admiration for Australia is not widespread, particularly among Japanese and ...
Fiducial Governance: An Australian republic for the new millennium
(2010)
Fiducial Governance: An Australian republic for the new millennium represents an attempt to grapple with the challenges of designing governance regimes suited to the new millennium. Power’s monograph asserts the need for ...
E-engagement: A guide for Public Sector Managers
(2007)
Over the last twenty years, advanced communication technologies have become pervasive throughout Western society. These technologies have not only revolutionised the delivery of public and private services, they have shaped ...
The Dilemmas of Engagement
(2009)
‘Consultation’ has become something of a mantra in contemporary governance. Governments well understand that policy occurs in a highly contestable environment in which there are multiple, and often competing interests. ...
Now is the Psychological Moment'
(2020)
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880–1961) – surgeon, Country Party leader, treasurer and prime minister – was perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in twentieth-century Australia. Over decades, ...
A Bridge Between
(2020)
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A ...
Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons
(2020)
Imprisoned people have always been vulnerable and in need of human rights protections. The slow but steady growth in the protection of imprisoned people's rights over recent decades in Australia has mostly come from ...