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Tomorrow's Canberra: planning for growth and change »

Publication date: 1970

Canberra is Australia's national capital and one of the few cities in the world planned from its inception. In many ways it is a model of what planning can accomplish: it has no urban blight, no slums, no chronic traffic congestion, and no air pollution. The population increase of about 8 per cent each year is being accommodated adequately; health, education, and welfare facilities are being provided to match population growth; and an attractive urban environment is being created economically. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book written to date about Canberra. It explains how one city is coping with its growth and development. It outlines the planning philosophies and methods being used. Most importantly, it proposes a strategy by means of which Canberra can go on growing efficiently from a city of 130,000 people to one of 500,000 in the next few decades. Professional town planners will find particularly valuable the details of procedures used to plan and construct the city and the examples of what can be achieved by integrating varied skills. Businessmen and developers will use the projections and statistical information in this book; urban administrators will be interested in the recorded results of many studies. All readers will appreciate the splendid photographs, sketches, maps, and diagrams. Tomorrow's Canberra is an important book. It will be read by all who find interest in the uniquely rapid and varied growth and development of Australia's national capital.

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Attitudes and social conditions: essays »

Publication date: 1970

For his study of Western Australian attitudes towards Aborigines Dr Taft chose three samples: in Perth, where there arc few Aborigines; in a large country town with a reputation for bad relations between Europeans and Aborigines; and in a small country town where relations were good. He analyses these attitudes with respect to several variables and finds that the most important influences on the relationships are the effects of community norms. Some interesting aspects of European attitudes to one another also emerge. Dr Dawson's study is part of a larger research program concerned with the effects of rapid biological and social change. He examines in detail the attitudes of two groups of Aborigines, one living in metropolitan Sydney and one in a rural settlement on the South Coast of New South Wales. The effects of the different environments arc clearly shown in the attitudes of the two groups towards education and integration. After a preliminary survey of the Redfern-Chippendale area, Mrs Beasley extended her research over the whole of Sydney, as she moved around the city getting to know Aboriginal families in their own homes. She examines in detail the nature of these households - where the members come from, what their living conditions are like, what kind of schooling they have had, and what jobs they hold. The three studies will be of interest to all those concerned with European-Aboriginal relations.

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Man and the new biology »

Publication date: 1970

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3221 1885_114737.jpg ANU Press Man and the new biology Tuesday, 18 August, 1970 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Slatyer, R. O

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China's world; the foreign policy of a developing state »

Publication date: 1970

Many books have been written about the Communist regime in China and its foreign policy. This is the first to approach the subject from the basis of domestic affairs. The author, with his special knowledge of contemporary China, has combined a study of the viceministerial structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an examination of fundamental domestic developmental factors during the period 1949 to 1968. The book fills a gap in an understanding of China' s foreign policy - the effect that China's basically agrarian nature has on overall development policy and hence on external affairs. Though primarily of interest to specialists in contemporary Chinese policy, economics, and international relations, this book should also appeal to students of Asian and compilative politics and of international relations, and to all interested in Chinese affairs.

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The economic development of Thai agriculture »

Publication date: 1970

This book is concerned with the development of agriculture in a 'contact economy'- an economy lying on the boundary between subsistence farming and farming dependent on the market. Thailand was opened to trade with the West over a century ago, and Thai farmers became accustomed to selling their surplus produce regularly. But it is only very recently, with the development of a road network, that many farmers have come to find the surplus that they sell of equal importance to what they produce for their own use. Even now most of them feel that they must produce their own rice. The transition to a market economy is often indirect. Professor Silcock argues that in a 'contact economy' those who secure access to the market often have both the inducement and the power to hold on to their advantage by preventing further development. He examines, in the Thai economy, the different crops and the different regions, considering where and why the pressures promoting development have been strong enough to overcome this tendency. The book should be of interest not only to all whose special field is Thailand, whether or not the economy is their main concern, but also to agricultural economists, especially those concerned with the agriculture of the less developed countries. Among general economists involved in development it will appeal particularly to those who see development primarily in terms of diffusion. For those whose main interest is the growth process itself, within a single economy, the significant feature of the book will probably be its treatment of regional accounts.

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Out of time, out of place: Henry Gregory and the Benedictine order in colonial Australia »

Publication date: 1970

The Catholics in Australia in the early nineteenth century were mainly Irish, and were served by a handful of Irish priests. In 1835 the English Benedictine, John Bede Polding, became first Bishop, and eight years later founded a Benedictine monastery in Sydney, with Henry Gregory as Prior. English Benedictine authoritarianism, conservatism, and culture were foreign elements imposed on Churchmen whose problems were largely practical and whose thinking was becoming less conservative, following the liberalising changes in Europe. The monastery was therefore founded out of time and out of place, and this book traces its vicissitudes, and those of its Prior, to 1861, when Rome intervened, restoring peace to the troubled diocese by recalling Gregory. This recall spelt the failure of Benedictinism in colonial Australia. Those interested in the reasons for that failure will find them here, in the author{u2019}s objective and well documented argument, told with directness and humanity.

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Aboriginal advancement to integration: conditions and plans for Western Australia »

Publication date: 1970

Aboriginal poverty is of the worst kind. It is the poverty of the few alongside the affluence of the many, self-generating, associated with ethnic heritage and colour, and dependent on others for alleviation. In this book an economist deeply concerned that Australians, one of the world{u2019}s wealthiest people, still have in their midst the poorest and possibly the smallest indigenous ethnic minority of any country, proposes urgently and cogently a wholly practical solution to the problem. His starting point is with the Aborigines as all too many of them are now - institutionalised, segregated, dispirited, illiterate, and members of broken families. If the measures he proposes were to start now, integration could be virtually completed by the end of the century. Dr Schapper sets out the necessary and sufficient conditions for Aboriginal advancement to integration, translates these into needs, quantifies them, and gives details of plans and programs. This controversial work is many-sided and should be required reading for administrators, politicians, social and welfare workers, teachers, Aboriginal leaders, students of social anthropology, and - not least - the Australian public.

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The destruction of aboriginal society »

Publication date: 1970

The Destruction of Aboriginal Society is the first of three volumes, on the general theme 'Aboriginal Policy and Practice', which are concerned with the history of interaction over the whole continent between black and white Australians from the time of settlement up to 1967. It is the first detailed study of its kind. This volume is concerned with the history and tragedy of interaction. Most white Australians today are unaware of the part the Aboriginal played in the history of settlement - even if he only stood to be shot, he influenced profoundly the kind of man who made a successful settler. The Aboriginal has been 'written out' of Australian history; the tragic significance of conflicts have long been bowdlerised and forgotten. Yet, even if vicariously, our guilt remains, as does our responsibility. Aboriginal attitudes take on a new dimension in the light of history, and no policies should be formulated except in that light. This book will stir the sleeping white Australian conscience.

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Atlas of Bundaleer Plains and Tatala »

Publication date: 1970

Just why Frederick Montague Rothery drew the Atlas o f Banda leer Plains and Tat ala is uncertain. But he has left a record of a huge nineteenth-century Queensland pastoral holding that is charming, possibly unique, and of real interest and value. Each of the maps is an attractive watercolour, its delicate brushwork and fine lettering showing in meticulous detail the area depicted: its soil, vegetation, buildings, fences, and dams. Rothery{u2019}s mapmaking is a fascinating blend of the medieval and the modern cartographer{u2019}s art: in part perspective drawing, in part planimetrically exact. The record Rothery has left, apart from its intrinsic artistic merit, is also valuable as evidence of pastoral and economic development in the nineteenth century; in addition, modern scientists have been able to identify in the Atlas a prior-stream course of practical use for present-day evelopments such as the locating of underground water and of gravel for roadmaking. This book should find a ready audience not only among economic historians, geographers, and cartographers but also among all those attracted by unusual Australiana. "Showing the runs of Messrs Davenport and Fisher in Maranoa District, Queensland, and Warago District, N.S. Wales, 1878."--original title page.

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English transported: essays on Australasian English »

Publication date: 1970

Australasian English - that used in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua-New Guinea - has never before been reported upon with the same clarity and depth as in this series of articles edited by Dr Ramson. Up-to-date findings in the study of vocabulary are supplemented by chapters on the interaction of English with other languages, on the speech of Australian Aborigines, migrants and Asian students, and on New Guinea Pidgin. This book will not only stimulate research activity in the subject and overcome the present paucity of teaching material - it will also appeal to the general reader wishing to know more about these distinctive variations of the English language.

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