Publications
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A National Asset
(2016)
This volume commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC). The Centre is Australia’s largest body of scholars dedicated to the analysis of the use of armed force in its political context ...
Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP
(2016)
The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest ...
Pollution: China Story Yearbook 2015
(2016)
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China’s Communist Party-state addresses these problems ...
Unintended Consequences: The impact of migration law and policy
(2016)
This book arose from an inaugural conference on Migration Law and Policy at the ANU College of Law. The conference brought together academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines and practice. The book is ...
Imaging Identity: Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age
(2016)
Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical ...
The Bionarrative: The story of life and hope for the future
(2016)
This book is for the general reader interested in the human place in nature and the future of civilisation. It is based on the biohistorical approach to the study of human situations. This approach recognises human culture ...
Dictionary of World Biography
(2018)
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and ...
Population Ageing and Australia's Future
(2016)
"This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on ...
Sharpening the Sword of State
(2016)
Sharpening the Sword of State explores the various ways in which 10 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific enhance their administrative capabilities through training and executive development. It traces how modern governments ...
Reluctant Representatives
(2016)
‘How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a senior Aboriginal public servant, imagines a conversation with the Northern ...
A Dissident Liberal
(2015)
In the ‘broad church’ of the Australian Liberal Party, rarely has there been a maverick so unrelenting in his commitment to personal principles as Senator Peter Baume. Over a parliamentary career spanning 17 years, three ...
Tropical Forests Of Oceania. Anthropological Perspectives
(2015)
The tropical forests of Oceania are an enduring source of concern for indigenous communities, for the migrants who move to them, for the states that encompass them within their borders, for the multilateral institutions ...
NGOs and Political Change. A History of the Australian Council for International Development
(2015)
The Australian Council for International Development is the peak body of Australian international development NGOs. This book explores ACFID’s history since its founding in 1965, drawing on current and contemporary literature ...
Long History, Deep Time. Deepening Histories of Place
(2015)
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia’s human past is not a short past, so we ...
A New Era?
(2015)
Timor-Leste has made impressive progress since its historic achievement of independence in 2002. From the instability that blighted its early years, the fledgling democratic country has achieved strong economic growth and ...
Vietnam as if… Tales of youth, love and destiny
(2015)
Vietnam as if… follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. Their dramatic everyday lives illuminate some of the most pressing issues in Vietnam today: ‘The Sticky Rice Seller’ explores gender ...
Political Life Writing in the Pacific. Reflections on Practice
(2015)
This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public ...
Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa
(2015)
This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa’s forestry sector has sat—often controversially—at the crossroads ...
They Came to Murramarang
(2015)
Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, first published in 1994, provides a unique combination of local history and personal recollections from a writer who witnessed the transformation of the Murramarang region from the ...
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century
(2015)
In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit ...
Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives
(2015)
This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of ...
Managing Under Austerity, Delivering Under Pressure
(2015)
Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an environment of ferocious ...
Maudu', A Union with God
(2015)
This volume offers a fascinating case study of the Sayyid community of Cikoang in South Sulawesi – in particular, an examination of the role of the descendants of Sayyid Jalaluddin al-‘Aidid, a Hadhrami merchant-teacher ...
China: New Engine of World Growth
(2012)
Twenty-five years of reform have transformed China from a centrally planned and closed system to a predominantly market-driven and open economy. As a consequence, China is emerging as the new powerhouse for the world ...
A Vision for Change
(2011)
This collection of the writings and speeches of one of Fiji’s greatest statesmen, the late Mr AD Patel, points to a different future which, if allowed to come to fruition, would have spared Fiji the fate it later encountered ...
Intersections: History, Memory and Discipline
(2012)
“A wonderfully rich, insightful and personally touching collection of essays by the Pacific region’s most prolific and engaging historian. Brij Lal writes eloquently
Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World
(2008)
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, ...
What does the honeybee see? And how do we know?
(2009)
This book is the only account of what the bee, as an example of an insect, actually detects with its eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or ...
What Good Condition?
(2006)
What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, a proposal which has been ...
A Trial Separation
(2012)
Decolonization; Politics and government; Papua new guinea
Viet Nam - a transition tiger?
(2004)
Economic conditions; Economic policy; Vietnam
Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia's Cities
(2008)
Australian cities have traditionally relied for their water on a ‘predict-and-provide’ philosophy that gives primacy to big engineering solutions. In more recent years privatised water authorities, seeking to maximise ...
Talking and Listening edited
(2007)
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction ...
The Spanish Lake
(2004)
Discovery; Exploration; Civilization; Economic conditions; European influences; History; Spain; Latin america; Pacific area
Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
(2006)
Ethnology; Southeast asia; Oceania
Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
(2010)
This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited ...
Security and Privacy
(2011)
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global ...
Soeharto's New Order and its Legacy
(2010)
Indonesia’s President Soeharto led one of the most durable and effective authoritarian regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his rule ended in ignominy, and much of the turbulence and corruption of the ...
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media
(2009)
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media presents a systematic treatment of the interaction of seismic waves with Earth structure. The theoretical development is physically based and is closely tied to the nature of ...
The Social Effects of Native Title
(2007)
The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process ...
Signs of Wali: Narratives at the Sacred Sites in Pamijahan, West Java
(2008)
In Signs of the Wali, Dr Tommy Christomy focuses on the one of the early founders of Islam on Java, Shakyh Abdul Muhyi, whose burial site at Pamijahan in Tasikmalaya is a place of contemporary ziarah. This study initially ...
Sounds in translation
(2009)
Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer’s challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human ...
Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance
(2004)
Government policy; Social conditions; Aboriginal australians
TA31: The Early Prehistory of Fiji
(2009)
I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These ...
Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji
(2012)
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the ...
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
(2008)
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary ...
State and Society in Papua New Guinea
(2004)
Politics and government; Social conditions; Papua new guinea
The Turning Point in China's Economic Development
(2006)
Economic policy; Economic conditions; Industrialization; China
Struggling for Self-Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s
(2008)
Military force projection is the self-reliant capacity to strike from mainland ports, bases and airfields to protect Australia’s sovereignty as well as more distant national interests. Force projection is not just a flex ...
Steep Slopes
(2010)
The Duna live in a physical environment of steep slopes that are sometimes difficult to traverse. A stick of bamboo used as a prop goes a long way in assisting a struggling traveller. Similarly, the Duna live in a social ...
A Time Bomb Lies Buried
(2008)
A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule. It provides an essential ...
Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilbrium Liquids
(2007)
During the 1980’s there were many developments regarding the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of dense classical atomic fluids. These developments have had a major impact on the computer simulation methods used to model ...
Dilemmas of China's Growth in the 21st Century
(2012)
Since economic reforms began in 1978, China has been a focal point for observing the effects of market liberalisation. China has not only truly become one of
Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China
(2012)
The idea that China’s economy needs to rebalance is no longer controversial inside or outside the country. Whether it be the increasing recognition of income
A Vision for Change
(2011)
“Dr Lal’s book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji’s outstanding leaders. It is a timely reminder that the process of constitutional change hangs in the balance, as it did at the time ...
Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea
(2012)
This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence
Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector: Enhancing the theory and practice of internal witness management in public sector organisations
(2008)
Of the many challenges in public sector management, few are as complex as the management of whistleblowing. Because it can lead to the discovery and rectification of wrongdoing, public interest whistleblowing is widely ...
Working Together in Vanuatu
(2011)
This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives ...
With the benefit of hindsight: Valedictory reflections from departmental secretaries, 2004-11
(2012)
Secretaries of government departments in Australia are the bureaucratic leaders of their generation. They are ambitious, highly-talented executives who have risen to the very pinnacle of their chosen vocation – public ...
Whatever Happened to Frank and Fearless?
(2008)
In this evidence-based and closely argued work, Kathy MacDermott plots the changes in the culture of the Australian Public Service that have led many contemporary commentators to lament the purported loss of traditional ...