Agenda for the eighties: contexts of Australian choices in foreign and defence policy »

Publication date: 1980

Suddenly in the eighties the choices to be made in foreign and defence policies seem harder. This book is an examination of the areas in which Australian governments, of whatever party, will have to make decisions. It does not aim to tell governments what to do, but provides a guide to the problems which may help politicians to choose and the general reader to judge their choices. Some of the problems analysed are those of the central balance of power - and Australia's relations with the United States and the Soviet Union - nuclear policy, Antarctica, China and Japan, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean littoral. An appendix provides a selection of relevant documents.

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Academia becalmed: Australian tertiary education in the aftermath of expansion »

Publication date: 1980

This book deals with the current crisis facing Australian tertiary education, especially universities and colleges of advanced education. Its message is simple. Tertiary education is becalmed in the sense that, after a long period of sustained and rapid expansion, it has now entered a period of no growth and decline. Student enrolments overall have levelled off, and in some fields and in some institutions have fallen alarmingly. As well, since 1976 financial support for universities and CAEs, which in past years kept pace with expansion, has been progressively cut in real terms by the Commonwealth Government. But in addition, tertiary education is becalmed in the sense that it has lost much of its wind, its energy and vitality. The end of the era of expansion came abruptly, and caught many academics and administrators by surprise. After coming to regard growth and sustained expansion as normal, they have found it both difficult and painful to adjust to the new situation in which universities and colleges of advanced education find themselves today. Further, this problem of adjustment to the {u2018}steady state{u2019} has been made more difficult by the oversupply of graduates in a number of fields, and by marked changes in public attitudes towards education and educational institutions.

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South Pacific agriculture: choices and constraints; South Pacific agricultural survey 1979 »

Publication date: 1980

This volume examines current development trends in agriculture, fishery and forestry in theh Pacific Islands and the broader context of fiscal, social and economic conditions in which these developments are taking place. The book falls into four parts: the first dealing with the broader context; the second dealing with the present conditions and likely trends in agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishery; the third outlining particular conditions in the 7 Pacific Island Developing Member Countries of the Asian Development Bank and the fourth addressing general regional issues and the role of mutilateral aid organisations within the region. Although prepared primarily as a report for use by the Asian Development Bank, the book should be of interest to a wide range of people concerned with the Pacific Islands. It should serve as a basic document for policy makers as well as for those with academic or general interest in the region. It is the first such broad survey of agriculture in the Pacific Islands region.

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Federalism in Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany: a comparative study »

Publication date: 1980

This book contrasts the approaches of Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany to problems of federal government, with special reference to political and administrative aspects of federalism, provisions for constitutional review and the administration of justice, the organisation of educational and cultural affairs, the role of local government, and fiscal and economic aspects of federalism. Matching papers are presented by Australian and German scholars and administrators, in such a way as to preserve a balance between political, constitutional, administrative and economic issues on the one hand and between philosophical questions and institutional arrangements on the other. The papers were originally contributed to a Symposium organised by the Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations in association with the Victorian Premier{u2019}s Department and a number of Schleswig- Holstein Ministries. Contributors include, in addition to members of these bodies, representatives of the German Federal and Lower Saxony Governments, of local government and of the academic disciplines o f political science, constitutional law, public administration and economics.

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Of time and place: essays in honour of O.H.K. Spate »

Publication date: 1980

This book of essays honours Professor O.H.K. Spate of The Australian National University. Occupying the second University Chair of Geography to be created in Australia, Oskar Spate built a Department in the Research School of Pacific Studies there. Later, after serving for five years as Director of that School, he moved to its Department of Pacific and South Asian History where, as a Visiting Fellow, he is writing a three- volume history of the Pacific. The first volume, The Spanish Lake, was published by the ANU Press in mid- 1979. Sixteen of his colleagues and research students have contributed to this offering, which has been edited by two former members of his Department. The versatility of Spate{u2019}s scholarship is only partly reflected here, though it is evident in the bibliography of his writings and the biographical sketch. Nevertheless the contents of this volume display the twin polarities of his concern with human activities in a framework of both wide-ranging space and great depth in time. The first four essays are concerned with reactions of individuals in different walks of life to the unfamiliar Australasian environment. The next four demonstrate methodologically different approaches to problems of historical geography seated regionally from Australia to South East Asia and the Southwest Pacific. This core of the area to which the Research School of Pacific Studies is devoted also contains the next five essays, which deal with present day economic and social problems of neighbouring developing nations. The final contributions return to Australia, to the obduracy of its Empty Heart from which we have still not learned lessons for government policy. Geographers, historians and social scientists will here find new material of diverse appeal.

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Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912 »

Publication date: 1980

China was virtually closed to visitors from the West until the middle of the nineteenth century. Its opening coincided with the advent of the camera, which gives the early photographs included in this book a double feeling of discovery, of the landscape and its people, and of the potentiality of the new medium. The camera was a curious witness to the capture of the forbidden city of Peking in 1860, to the beauty and treasures of the Summer Palace, to the execution of criminals in Canton, to details of ordinary Chinese life; and - notably in the photographs of M. Miller and John Thomson - it revealed its ability for portraiture and genre. These photographs, unknown to the public until now, have been collected from archives in Europe, America and Asia. They include images by Beato, Wilson and Mennie, and by many lesser-known photographers. They widen our understanding of what China was like in the final decades of the Dragon Throne and form a vivid and unforgettable picture of a culture destined for radical, irrevocable change.

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The Development of Australian fiscal federalism: selected readings »

Publication date: 1980

Here in one volume are collected the articles and documents produced during the first sixty-odd years of federation which most clearly illustrate the origins and development of Australian fiscal federalism. The issues in intergovernmental fiscal relations which are examined, all of which are still relevant, include the general questions of vertical and horizontal financial balance, principles and methods of fiscal equalisation, borrowing arrangements and debt management, the assignment and co-ordination of revenue raising and expenditure powers, and intergovernmental grants arrangements in general.

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The Italian inspiration in English literature »

Publication date: 1980

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3705 1885_115038.jpg ANU Press The Italian inspiration in English literature Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Whitlam, Gough

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History tours in and around Canberra »

Publication date: 1980

Which Canberra church was once a railway station? Who is the famous bushranger associated with Lake George? How did Captain's Flat get its name? Who sang the National Anthem at the opening of Parliament House? This book will answer these questions and many more for everyone interested in the history of Canberra and the surrounding area. As well as descriptions of tours to places of historical interest there are many useful hints for the amateur historian, including chapters on recognising local styles of architecture and discovering history from graveyards.

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Why ethnic schools: selected case studies »

Publication date: 1980

Ethnic schools are emerging as a major issue in Australian society, despite many people's ignorance about them. This book is concerned with migrants' perceptions of the role of these schools and their relation to the wider issues of migrant education and the arguments about assimilation versus multi-culturalism. The authors have studied the attitudes of Greek, Italian, Ukrainian and Slovenian communities and their findings present a picture of attitudes of interest to all Australians.

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