Public policies in two federal countries: Canada and Australia »

Publication date: 1982

The papers in this book examine selected public policy issues in Canada and Australia within the framework of their federal systems of government. The book consists of eight parts, dealing respectively with historical aspects of federalism, constitutional reform, inflation and unemployment, economic development and structural change, fiscal federalism, higher education and health policies, cultural policy, and problems of federal government in the two countries. The distinguished contributors include former political leaders, senior public servants and academics who have been intimately associated with major public policy issues in the two countries during recent years.

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Western reports on the Taiping: a selection of documents »

Publication date: 1982

The authors have selected nearly one hundred extracts from contem porary Western diplomatic and missionary reports, from books, news papers, private journals, travel accounts, diaries etc., in short a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. All the extracts are contemporary, and nearly all are from eyewitnesses, since the emphasis is on the reportage, not on Western opinion or policy. Some are printed for the first time, from various manuscript collections; most are here re-printed for the first time. Several, including one of the longest, have been translated from the original French. The collection will be a valuable source book for teachers of courses on China since the Opium wars, providing an interesting and varied collection of material for student essays, as well as for the research of all scholars interested in the Taiping and in the Western presence in mid-nineteenth century China. It provides a good overview of the response to this major crisis of Chinese society over a twenty-year period. It supplements the Michael collection of translations with a further basic set of documents on the Taiping. The documents are, as far as possible, left to speak for themselves; commentary is kept to a minimum.

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Yugul: an Arnhem Land cattle station »

Publication date: 1982

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The French in Australia »

Publication date: 1982

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Current constitutional problems in Australia »

Publication date: 1982

This book examines current issues of constitutional law in Australia from the perspective of a group of Commonwealth and State Solicitors-General and academic lawyers. The topics covered include : the nature of appropriation (including the Commonwealth spending power); excise duty; section 92; Commonwealth prerogative powers; industrial powers; and the Imperial connection.

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26th Congress of the CPSU in current political perspective »

Publication date: 1982

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The tragical history of Doctor Faustus »

Publication date: 1982

This book is the result of a life-long ambition of the author's to present a version of Marlowe's famous play Dr Faustus which has come down to us in a badly mutilated form. Marlowe died shortly after it was written and successive producers replaced much of his text with scenes of knock-about farce. Enough indications of the original form of the play remain, in the opinion of A. D. Hope, to enable a tentative restoration. He does not claim, of course, to have restored Marlowe{u2019}s original text, but to have produced a possible picture of what the missing scenes may have been like, using his own instincts and habits as a poet but aiming at something like Marlowe's own manner and the usage of Elizabethan English and stage-craft.

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Cinderellas of the empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu »

Publication date: 1982

Barrie Macdonald graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967 and completed his PhD in 1971 at the Australian National University. Cinderellas of the the Empire was written at Massey University, New Zealand, where the author is Senior Lecturer in History, and at the Australian National University where he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific and South East Asian History. As can be seen from his book, Barrie Macdonald was granted special access to government archives and made discriminating use of these archives, in addition to his use of missionary sources and other private papers. A decade of fieldwork and interviews with leading political figures give flesh to his impeccable use of the written sources. Barrie Macdonald is currently working on a general book on colonialism, decolonisation and development in Oceania.

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Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier 1861-1897 »

Publication date: 1982

North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did {u2018}invasion{u2019} begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity. This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearlshell and beche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority. This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed.

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Investigations into the authenticity of the Chang San-feng ch'uan-chi, the complete works of Chang San-feng »

Publication date: 1982

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