Publications
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Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea
(2010)
Papua New Guinea has a complex ‘law and order’ problem and an entrenched epidemic of HIV. This book explores their interaction. It also probes their joint challenges and opportunities—most fundamentally for civic security, ...
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
(2008)
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic ...
The China Boom and its Discontents
(2005)
Economic policy; Commercial policy; Industrialization; Economic conditions; China
Collaborative Governance
(2008)
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we ...
Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji
(2008)
May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s ...
China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change
(2008)
China’s Dilemma—Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising ...
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
(2006)
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
A Bird that flies with two wings
(2009)
This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move ...
Black Words White Page
(2004)
Australian literature; Aboriginals; 20th century history; History; Australia
Capturing the Wealth From Tuna: case stude's from the Pacific
(2008)
The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is home to the largest tuna fishery in the world – around half of the world’s tuna supply – and is a vital economic resource for Pacific island countries. The potential of the Pacific ...
Calvin for the Third Millennium
(2008)
This work is a series of sermons produced by Emeritus Professor Hans Mol, and based on Biblical texts, the Commentaries of John Calvin on these texts, and on Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Mol is Australia’s ...
Business and the Risk of Crime in China
(2011)
The book analyses the results of a large scale victimisation survey that was conducted in 2005-06 with businesses in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an. It also provides comprehensive background materials on crime and ...
Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone
(2007)
Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, ...
The Centrelink Experiment
(2008)
Centrelink was established in 1997 as part of the Howard government’s bold experiment in re-framing social policy and re-shaping service delivery. Centrelink was the embodiment of a key tenet of the Howard vision for public ...
Bridging the 'Know-Do' Gap
(2010)
Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens. Good health and well-being in the early years are the foundations for well-adjusted and productive adult lives and a thriving society. But children are being let down in Australia ...
Echoes of the Tambaran
(2011)
In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran —a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through ...
Dance of the Nomad
(2010)
The notebooks of A. D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet’s intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, ...
Connected Worlds
(2006)
Transnational history; Australia
Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia
(2007)
The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve ...
Complex Science for a Complex World
(2006)
Human ecology; Australia
Critical Reflections on Australian Public Policy
(2009)
This collection of ‘critical reflections’ on Australian public policy offers a valuable contribution to public discussion of important political and policy issues facing our nation and society. These essays are important ...
Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of PNG
(2007)
The Southern Highlands is one of Papua New Guinea’s most resource-rich provinces, but for a number of years the province has been riven by conflict. Longstanding inter-group rivalries, briefly set aside during the colonial ...
Crisis Policymaking: Australia and the East Timor Crisis of 1999
(2010)
East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening ...
Country, Native Title and Ecology
(2012)
Country, native title and ecology all converge in this volume to describe the dynamic intercultural context of land and water management on Indigenous lands. Indigenous people’s relationships with country are discussed ...
Agency, contingency and census process
(2007)
The Indigenous Enumeration Strategy (IES) of the Australian National Census of Population and Housing has evolved over the years in response to the perceived ‘difference’ of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
The Architecture of Security in the Asia-Pacific
(2009)
We cannot expect in East Asia over the foreseeable future to see the sort of conflation of sovereign states that has occurred in Europe. We must anticipate that, for the foreseeable future, the requirement will be for the ...
Aboriginal Population Profiles for Development Planning in the Northern East Kimberley
(2004)
Aboriginal australians; Western australia; Kimberly; Population; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
(2011)
In 1948 a collection of scientists, anthropologists and photographers journeyed to northern Australia for a seven-month tour of research and discovery—now regarded as ‘the last of the big expeditions’. The American–Australian ...
Basin Futures
(2011)
This unique book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world’s leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of ...
The Austronesians
(2006)
Anthropology; Archeology; Social life; Customs; History; Asia; Madagascar; Islands of the pacific
Australian Chamber Music with Piano
(2011)
This book represents the first critical survey of a section of a rich Australian corpus of chamber music. The author has included various instrumental combinations with piano as well as vocal music with piano. The survey ...
Australia and Cyberwarfare
(2008)
This book explores Australia’s prospective cyber-warfare requirements and challenges. It describes the current state of planning and thinking within the Australian Defence Force with respect to Network Centric Warfare, and ...
Australia Under Construction
(2008)
The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and ...
The axe had never sounded
(2007)
‘This book meets well the triple promise of the title – the inter-connections of place, people and heritage. John Mulvaney brings to this work a deep knowledge of the history, ethnography and archaeology of Tasmania. He ...
Australian Political Lives
(2006)
Biography; Politicians; History; Australia
Australian Department Heads Under Howard
(2006)
Politics and government; Civil service; Australia
Caretaker conventions in Australasia: minding the shop for government
(2007)
In this monograph, Anne Tiernan and Jennifer Menzies capably chart the often hazardous terrain of the ‘caretaker period’ that ensues from the time an election is called until a new government is formed. This is a landscape ...
Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
(2011)
Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his ...
Culture and Translation: recovering he legacy of R.H Mathews
(2007)
R. H. Mathews (1841-1918) was an Australian-born surveyor and self-taught anthropologist. From 1893 until his death in 1918, he made it his mission to record all ‘new and interesting facts’ about Aboriginal Australia. ...
The Disaster of the Third Princess
(2009)
These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying ...