Pacific market-places: a collection of essays »

Publication date: 1969

Town and country meet and mingle in the urban produce markets of the Pacific region. From here economic forces operate to diffuse new forms of production and organisation throughout the region. These new forms are, however, superimposed on the traditional trading exchanges of the Pacific peoples; full understanding of them requires consideration of the whole social and economic environment, of trading practices and their economic motivation. This book presents a snapshot of urban marketing in the Pacific in the 1960s against such a background. The five market studies, ranging from small incipient markets in New Guinea to larger, more complex urban markets in the Solomons and Samoa, are empirical, each independently prepared. The editor draws them together with a discussion of the wider aspects of produce marketing in the Pacific, and places them within the context of a theoretical approach to urban markets in developing areas.

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Agricultural development in Asia »

Publication date: 1969

This book comes at a critical time in the economic history of Asia. Most countries of the region, faced with burgeoning populations and a demand for higher living standards, are uncertain of their capacity to meet growing food needs and to use agriculture to initiate sustained economic development. The authors examine the problem through analyses of the agricultural development performances of nine countries within the region. What emerges is a mixture of agricultural success stories, indifferent performances, and downright failures to develop the agricultural sector. For each country a specialist author examines past and current growth rates of agricultural output, factors which have promoted and inhibited this growth, and future prospects for development. The final chapter isolates the cardinal elements in the development process and suggests ways in which these can be manipulated to promote a fast rate of growth in output. The book will interest students of agricultural development, policymakers, agricultural administrators, aid-donors, and all those who appreciate the gravity and urgency of the agricultural problems of the region.

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A bibliography of Fiji, Tonga and Rotuma »

Publication date: 1969

The Pacific Islands constitute an important geographical link between the civilisations of Europe and America and those of Asia. Increasingly the region is the subject of serious study in many disciplines - over the last twenty or so years, publications referring to the South Pacific exceed those of the past 300 years. Some bibliographies of different regions and selective ones for the whole area do exist; until now none has existed for the trio of territories that straddle the {u2018}dividing{u2019} line between the Melanesian western Pacific and the Polynesian eastern Pacific - Fiji, Tonga, and Rotuma. This bibliography is the result of thirty-one years{u2019} research in libraries and archives throughout the world. It consists of some 10,000 entries in distinct categories, each giving full bibliographical details, and it ranges in time from the seventeenth century to the mid-1960s. It is non-selective, for, as its author rightly says, no bibliographer knows the purposes for which his work will be used. Though this work is an essential tool for all workers in the Pacific area, the many vicissitudes it has endured - literally, it has suffered fire, flood, and war - together with its wide range in time and space, make it less than perfect. It is, therefore, published now as a preliminary working edition with the invitation that any new or emending material be sent to the author.

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An investigation of arcing in the electrolytic switch/test load used with the Canberra homopolar generator »

Publication date: 1969

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3637 1885_114978.jpg ANU Press An investigation of arcing in the electrolytic switch/test load used with the Canberra homopolar generator Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Smith, B. D

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Arid lands of Australia: proceedings of a symposium held in the Academy of Science, Canberra, May 1969 »

Publication date: 1969

Three-quarters of the Australian continent is arid or semi-arid. History has shown that man{u2019}s utilisation of arid lands has, in general, caused progressive deterioration of the natural vegetation, the animal resources, and finally the landscape itself. Already settlement in Australia{u2019}s arid lands bears all too evident witness to damage and degradation. Each additional use of these lands - for grazing, farming, mining - tends to distort the extremely delicate ecological balance of most of Australia. In this volume eighteen experts discuss the, often competing, uses and needs of and for the land, the abuses of it, and some possible solutions. The problem is so vast and widespread that no single state could tackle the problems, let alone tackle them successfully. Before it is too late, the problems of preserving the arid lands for present and future generations challenge the nation and the national government.

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Educating for the profession of arms: current thinking and practice in Britain and the United States »

Publication date: 1969

The problems of the education of officers in the armed services are at present the subject of vigorous debate within official and service circles in Australia. To what extent do officers in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force need to be provided with a full-fledged academic education in order to fulfil their responsibilities in the modern world? How can the demands of an academic education be reconciled with those of the inculcation of soldierly virtues and skills? Should the academic part of an officer's education be imparted by military academies, or should it be undertaken by universities? Should the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force maintain separate academies, or has the time come for these to be replaced by a single, multi-service academy? Professor P. H. Partridge recently had occasion to examine recent thought and practice concerning military education in Britain and the United States. Here he gives an account of his impressions and reflects about some of the major questions.

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The strategy of General Giap since 1964 »

Publication date: 1969

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3601 1885_115099.jpg ANU Press The strategy of General Giap since 1964 Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services O'Neill, Robert John

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Volcanoes »

Publication date: 1969

Volcanic eruption is the most spectacular of all landscape-forming processes, and has a fascination for the scientist and the ordinary man alike. This book gives an up-to-date account of the mechanism of volcanic activity, the products of eruption, and especially the many varieties of landform produced by vulcanism. It also describes the processes of weathering and erosion that attack volcanoes and lava flows, and discusses the course of landscape evolution in volcanic areas. The numerous examples of eruptions, disasters, landforms, and scientific investigations are drawn from all over the world, with some emphasis on volcanic features of Australasia. The distribution of volcanoes is explained in conjunction with modern ideas of the evolution of the earth's crust, and the final chapter discusses methods used to predict eruptions as well as what to do when an eruption occurs. Volcanoes is aimed at the level of undergraduate geomorphology students, but will be of interest to geologists, geophysicists, and hydrologists. It is also a suitable introduction to volcanoes for schools and for the general reader. Like other volumes of the Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology series it is well illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

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The 1968 Federal redistribution »

Publication date: 1969

During 1968 a massive reshuffling of electoral boundaries took place, the first for thirteen years. The redistribution reflects the changes in population that have occurred in those years: in the New Parliament to be elected in 1969 New South Wales has one seat less and South Australia and Victoria each one more; new seats have been created and old ones abolished; only five constituencies remain unchanged. Past electoral figures are thus unreliable, a deficiency this work overcomes by adjusting previous election figures to the new boundaries for all seats, as well as summarizing the extent of alterations, creations, and abolitions. It also contains twelve useful electoral maps, and a most instructive index of representativeness. It is an essential guide for the 1969 federal election.

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Images and issues: the Queensland state elections of 1963 and 1966 »

Publication date: 1969

This is the fullest account of electoral politics in an Australian State yet available. It provides detailed accounts of State parties and party leaders and of campaigning and candidates at the grass roots level throughout the sprawling State of Queensland. Queensland politics have a number of unique features: the predominance within the governing coalition of the Country Party; the long periods of Labor rule; the heavy weighting of rural electorates; the importance of local 'development' as a political issue. The account of the two campaigns in 1963 and 1966 is reinforced with a survey of 350 Brisbane voters in 1963, 200 of whom were re-interviewed in 1966. Thus, for the first time, we have a study of attitude change over a long period of time based on a sample of Australian voters. The book provides answers to basic questions about the apathy, the partisanship, and the amount of political knowledge possessed by Australian voters. It is essential reading for all politicians and political parties, and will be of value to journalists and psychologists, political scientists and historians, as well as to general readers interested in politics.

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