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Explores policies adopted by Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland and the possibilities they provide to overcome Australia's seemingly intractable problems. Australian and Nordic thinkers and policy practitioners outline proven approaches to help Australia become a fairer, happier, wealthier and more environmentally responsible country.

From the wild jazz clubs of Prohibition-era LA to Indigenous women discovering a new world of black resistance, this anatomy of a scandal-fuelled frame-up brings into focus a vibrant cast of characters from Australia's Jazz Age.

From the author of Struggletown and Journeyings, this rich study of the lives of unwilling colonisers is an original and confronting new history of Australia's convict past - the repressed history of colonial Victoria.

Ian Fairweather is one of the most significant twentieth-century artists to have worked in Australia, and is exceptional among modern artists for his experience of Chinese life and culture. This book shows how central the China experience is to his emergence as a key transcultural figure, connecting British, European, Chinese and Australian art.

Honours the life and cultural contribution of Archbishop James Alipius Goold (1812-1886). A companion to The Invention of Melbourne, this volume brings Goold to life as we follow him around the colony and witness how he shaped the fabric of Victorian suburbs and towns.

Over the past decade the gravitational centre of contemporary conflict has shifted from the physical battlefield to the online battlespace, where the ingenuity of non-state actors has vexed governments and militaries. Devising new architectures of participation, Al Qaeda and ISIS have weaponised social media and empowered their dispersed followers to organise, communicate, and dominate the information domain. Kevin Foster shows how conventional militaries in the US, Britain, Israel, and Australia have responded to this challenge by integrating social media into their systems and operations, and the organisational and cultural impediments they have confronted. Foster traces each military's social media journey, appraising the strategies, doctrine, and policies developed to regulate its management and use. From the ADFA Skype sex scandal to the IDF's sophisticated integration of the real and virtual spaces of war, Anti-Social Media examines the good, the bad, and the indifferent in the armed forces' halting advance towards social media competence.

In the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume celebrates the church's radicalism, while taking account of debates and obstacles on the path to social reform.

Presents the work of Australian and international artists across a broad range of exhibitions, performances and events from CLIMARTE's ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival. Essays on the climate emergency by artists, curators and arts writers help us imagine a world where we protect and care for the earth.

Focusing on William Cooper's most important campaigns, this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia's black history heard and win representation in Australia's political order.

From boardrooms to blockade camps, from the lush East Gippsland forests to the golden Ningaloo Reef, the fight against environmental destruction takes place in many spaces. This book tells the inside story of nine women within the Australian environmental movement and the behind-the-scenes efforts that have helped power advocacy across Australia.

From the coal blockade frontline of the Liverpool Plains to Hobart's Cat and Fiddle arcade, from being on the road with last chance Malcolm Turnbull to the fossil fuel fantasies of Adaniland in the north, Guy Rundle gives a first-hand history of Australia in the 2010s.

A trusted introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions. The four-part structure - an introduction to clinical psychiatry; conditions encountered; specific patient groups and clinical settings; and principles and details of typical clinical services, and of biological and psychological treatments - provides a clear overview of clinical practice.

With the support of the Australian art community, the Venice Biennale today remains an aspiration and career highlight for contemporary artists and Australia's love affair with the exhibition thrives. Discover the untold stories of the world's most important art event through one hundred years of Australian modern art.

Based upon an extensive study of Australian foreign affairs archives, as well as interviews, A Narrative of Denial demonstrates how the Australian government responded to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor by propagating a version of events that denied the reality of the catastrophe occurring in East Timor.

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. As well as being Australia's longest-serving prime minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies' world picture was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle, and in which cultural puritanism and philosophical idealism were pervasive. Unless we remember this cultural background of Menzies' thought then we will seriously misunderstand what he meant by the very project of liberalism. The Forgotten Menzies argues that Menzies' greatest aspiration was to protect the ideals of cultural puritanismin Australia from two kinds of materialism: communism; and the mindset encouraged by affluence and technological progress. Central to Menzies' project of cultural and civilisational preservation was the university, an institution he spent much of his career extolling and expanding. The Forgotten Menzies makes an important contribution to the history of political thought and ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten but rich intellectual origins of the Liberal Party.

Tells a story of discovery and realisation. One man's ambition to rewrite the history of human culture inspires an exploration of the controversy stirred by Tasmanian Aboriginal history. It brings to life how Australian and British national identities have been fashioned by shame and triumph over the supposed destruction of an entire race.

In the 1960s Dale Kent embarked on a lifelong struggle to fulfil the desire of many women of her generation - to be the most she could be. Her story, both poignant and darkly comical, traces a counterpoint between increasing professional success, a desperate search for a sexual soulmate and a way back to her daughter.

The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend. The book presents the role of trees in contemporary life in a world where most people don't live in the wild, and their acquaintance with nature comes from many sources.

Seeks to reinvigorate the study of history within the law school curriculum by showcasing what students of the law can achieve when they seek to understand legal processes and institutions historically.

Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries - many that have never been read before.

This history of Australia's early contact with the world outside is consequently very different from the account commonly accepted up to now; even aboriginal art, so long regarded as wholly isolated from external influence, is shown by Dr Macknight to employ themes from overseas.

It has been over fifteen years since the 1999 Intervention into East Timor, led by Australia with the International Force for East Timor. This collection of essays brings together a range of participants in the momentous events of 1999 and provides a timely reflection on how they see it - reflecting on the meaning, the consequences and the implications arising from the Timor intervention.

Throughout his academic and medical careers, David Penington has been an agent of change. Here, one of Australia's leading public health experts reveals his ethos, drives and the highs and lows of a life built on making waves. It details a tireless leader who has never shunned public controversy in a bid to improve the lives of all Australians.

Based on in-depth research and interviews - including with Alan King Jones, Bill Leslie and 'the father of Australian diamonds', Ewen Tyler - Argyle details the almost overwhelming challenges with realising a diamond mining venture in Australia, shows how these obstacles were overcome, and explores the mine's impact and legacy.

In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Thisvolume reveals their meaning and significance for understanding the dismissal.