This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes' successful textbook "Australia's Welfare Wars, " in which the author explains--and questions--many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the Neo-liberal or Economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the welfare debates in Australia and overseas, and instead demonstrates and reaffirms the ongoing relevanc...
John Warhurst, an observer of the lobbying industry in Australia for thirty years, describes its growing size and importance. He looks at the many ways in which lobbyists attempt to influence politicians and other decision makers, and assesses their positive and negative roles in the political system.
This invaluable and pracical field guide provides identification information on 77 of the most common eucalypt species that occur in the Sydney region, in a convenient and easy-to-use format.
Illustrated with historic photographs and memorabilia, this book traces the history of bushwalking and shows how the activity has become the most popular way that Australians engage with the bush. The book features many primary materials, including diary entries, club newsletters, and photos that bring to live the origins and developments of walking as a significant Australian pastime.
This is the history of John Vincent Barry: judge, historian, criminologist, civil libertarian, and public intellectual. Mark Finnane had access to Barry's personal correspondence and an archive of over 10, 000 letters documenting Australian and American life from the Korean War, McCarthyism, and Petrov to the Vietnam War.
Sherman Young, passionate book lover and avid consumer and producer of digital technology, is on a mission to make book culture matter in the twenty-first century. His bold and exciting book will inspire readers, nonreaders, and publishers to put books center-stage again, even if they're not books as we know them now.
This is a quick and handy guide that takes you through the basics of Chinese etiquette and gives an insight into the way Chinese executives approach negotiations with foreign companies. An essential primer, its no-nonsense approach will show you how to prepare and conduct yourself in order to significantly increase your success rate when doing business in China.
Scots have been 'invisible' ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. "The Scots in Australia" is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants--including convicts and free settlers--and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to the present. Combining anecdote, biography and straightforward history, author Malcolm Prentis reevaluates commonly held assumptions and myths from both ends of the migrati...
This book looks at the administrative and leadership style of former Prime Minister John Howard's fourth and final term in government (2004-2007). Organized into three sections, it begins with a group of essays that reflect on key governance issues such as privatization, the management of the Howard Government's Senate majority, and issues relating to accountability and ethics. The second section examines policy issues that dominated the fourt...
Forgetting Aborigines" explores a central paradox in Australian history: Aborigines are often remembered as absent in the face of a continuing and actual indigenous historical presence. Chris Healy argues that in the ways we remember our history, Aborigines keep disappearing. They are present and central at certain moments but then fade from memory. Aboriginal issues can be on the front page for weeks prompting white Australians to ask questio...
Offers guidance to the French vocabulary as it is found in the contemporary press and media. This book provides short examples for each word or phrase in context with English-translations of head-words. It includes words relating to semi-specialised areas such as the legal sphere, banking and finance, administration, commerce and politics.
Despite the centrality of the topic of peace to international studies and the proliferation of volumes by such groundbreaking thinkers as Rousseau, Bentham, and Kant, there is no single text available that caters to this aspect of eighteenth-century political theory. Addressing this gap by providing a contemporary compilation of the eighteenth-century "perpetual peace" proposals together with a cogent introduction to the topic's contemporary l...
Religion has long been a defining characteristic of Welsh identity, and this volume demonstrates the complicated relationship between religion and faith and Welsh national culture from the seventeenth century forward--touching upon the Puritan period, the Older Dissent of the eighteenth century, nineteenth-century Nonconformity, and the impact of twentieth-century secularism. "Wales and the Word" stands apart from other volumes on Welsh religi...
Hailed as one of the greatest of the modern poets by both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, David Jones (1895-1974) was an important visual artist, one of the most uncategorizable and appreciated native British poets of the twentieth century, an essayist, and a notable illustrator of poetry and works for children. "Reading David Jones" offers a guided tour of Jones's notoriously difficult poetry--accompanied by careful explication, annotation, and ...
Hailed as one of the greatest of the modern poets by both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, David Jones (1895-1974) was an important visual artist, one of the most uncategorizable and appreciated native British poets of the twentieth century, an essayist, and a notable illustrator of poetry and works for children. "Reading David Jones" offers a guided tour of Jones's notoriously difficult poetry--accompanied by careful explication, annotation, and ...
This volume examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia I Unio, who were in power from the post-Franco transitional period through Pujol's retirement in 2003. Examining issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context of globalization, multiculturalism, and the commodifications of culture, this book looks at how Pujol's government tackled t...
