Australian & Oceanian

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645716320Author Harry RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Social TechnologiesPublisher Social TechnologiesWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party's formation, its successes and failures at winning elections at all levels, its...

Featuring a new introduction in response to Julia Gillard's memoir, this revised edition brings Paul Kelly's masterpiece on the Rudd-Gillard years up to the present.Drawing on more than sixty on-the-record interviews with all the major players, Triumph...

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago...

The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of...

The popular Netflix series The Crown covers the tumultuous period from the Queen's accession in 1952 to the present day, and so does this book, which explores the rise, decline and-to some-unexpected rebound of the historic UK, Canada, Australia, and New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)...

Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of sexual violence are going up in many...

This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it...

Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a...

Does Australia need to choose between the United States and China? In Independent Ally, Shannon Tow explores how Australia has repeatedly developed a strong relationship with a rising power while simultaneously preserving its alliance with a dominant...

Northern Australia is rediscovered by each new generation of Australian politicians. Dams, mines, large transport projects, a food bowl for Asia and many other projects are promised and sometimes delivered, but then the political momentum fades away and...

This is a book about conflict: conflict between a country with limits to its international influence - Australia - and a new international actor with enormous presence on the world stage - the European Union. Australians often perceive the EU as a...

Constructing Neoliberalism presents a rich analysis of the shift to neoliberal economic policies in four Anglo-American democracies - Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand - over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. This period witnessed a dramatic...

As the 21st century proceeds apace, Australia faces new and old challenges, both domestically and internationally. These include managing complex governance issues, preventing democratic fracture, balancing an ever- shifting geopolitical strategic order,...

'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.'Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native title...

Constructing Neoliberalism presents a rich analysis of the shift to neoliberal economic policies in four Anglo-American democracies - Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand - over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. This period witnessed a dramatic...

That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long...

Alan J. Ward combines constitutional history and political science to compare all nine of Australia's political systems, federal, state and territorial, from colonial times to the present. Guided by a model of parliamentary government drawn from...

Australia's constitutions tell only part of the story. They omit or barely mention many of the essential and well-known elements of the system of government, such as the cabinet, the prime minister or premier, ministerial responsibility or the opposition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for The John Button Prize 2009 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781741756241Author Geoff BoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760640095Author Frank BongiornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint La Trobe University PressPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 684gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742370507Author Jackie DickensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

`How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed...

Why is there a sense of unease about Australian politics? William Maley argues that a key reason is that while Australia is not facing a crisis of democracy, the functioning of its political system has degraded markedly in recent decades. The...

One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The first non-Scandinavian ombudsman appeared in New Zealand in 1962, and since then the office has spread to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922270412Author Klaas WoldringFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint BookpodPublisher BookpodWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741756258Author Anika GaujaFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648164456Author Eddy JokovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint New PoliticsPublisher New PoliticsWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826166Author Patrick MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

How does Australia's unique geographical, cultural and historical position influence its approach to foreign policy? What key challenges does Australia face on the world stage, and how can it overcome them? Reflecting the messy reality of foreign policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921313752Author Roland RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

At the centre of this collection are the actors and processes referred to by the distinguished Oceania thinker and visionary Epeli Hau'ofa as 'ordinary people ... who, because of the poor flows of benefits from the top, scepticism about stated policies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383459254Author Dr Murlidhar MandalFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bonfring Technology SolutionsPublisher Bonfring Technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920942977Author Stewart FirthFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760644383Author Lech BlaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Quarterly EssayPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 242g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760461850Author Anika GaujaFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863954983Author George MegalogenisFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Quarterly EssayPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921934292Author A. Haroon Akram-LodhiFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press