ANU Press Archive, 1965–1991
A collaborative project undertaken by ANU Press and the ANU Digitisation Team has enabled over 500 scholarly works, originally published by The Australian National University Press between 1965–1991, to be made available to a global audience under its open-access policy.
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Bigger or smaller government?: papers from the sixth Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982 »
Publication date: 1983
Papers from the sixth symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982.
Hospital funding »
Publication date: 1983
This book reviews the basis of hospital funding in Australia. In addition to two background papers by the Commonwealth Treasury and Department of Health, and the Commonwealth Grants Commission, respectively, there are papers on Canada's system of hospital funding; on why Queensland's per capita hospital costs are so low and on why Western Australia's costs are so high, on factors affecting costs and efficiency in hospital administration; on hospital charges and revenue-raising capacity; on the likely future course of health funding; and on alternative methods of providing and financing hospital services, including greater reliance on the market in substitution for direct government provision. The authors include senior Treasury officers, hospital administrators and health economists.
Climate of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the climate of Papua New Guinea. It is based on an exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the basic meteorological data from the country's extensive recording station network, a network which resulted from the need for accurate weather information for the operation of widespread airstrips in an otherwise inaccessible interior. The data collected made it possible to undertake a climatic survey and analysis for Papua New Guinea which is perhaps unique in its spatial extent and time span for a less developed country. The analysis has revealed the inadequacy of currently held theories of the major climatic controls operating in the region for explaining the various climatic patterns found there. The first chapters present a treatment of regional climatic controls which is in part entirely new. This explanation is then used as the basis for the succeeding chapters on specific climatic elements, the water balance and climatic classification. Papua New Guinea is a land of many and varied cultures, each with its own traditional agricultural practices which have often evolved in response to climatic factors. Climate is also of major importance in planning and implementing many resource development projects such as the construction of roads and of hydro-electric power stations. For these reasons this book is directed to agriculturalists, engineers, planners and students as well as to professional meteorologists.
The problem of command in the Australian defence force environment »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2967 1885_114927.jpg ANU Press The problem of command in the Australian defence force environment Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Hartnell, Geoffrey
Tourism and underdevelopment in Fiji »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3391 1885_115181.jpg ANU Press Tourism and underdevelopment in Fiji Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Britton, Stephen G
Soils of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
The aim of this book is to bring together and summarise our present knowledge of the soils of Papua New Guinea. Although much of it is based on data collected during CSIRO's land resource surveys, the book also attempts to incorporate the widely scattered and relatively inaccessible information gathered by other researchers. The US Department of Agriculture's soil taxonomy classification has been used, since it is now internationally widely accepted and makes the data accessible to scientists working in other parts of the tropics. Eight orders, twenty-six suborders and sixty-one great soil groups have been identified in Papua New Guinea. Following an introductory section on the environment and a discussion on soil classification and mapping, the next chapters describe the soils at great soil group level according to the eight orders (Entisols, Elistosols, Inceptisols, Vertisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols, and Oxisols). For each great group separate sections on morphology, genesis, occurrence, association, fertility, and land use are given. The second part of the book discusses soil related subjects, attempting as far as possible to synthesise the available information. A review of the various land inventory methods, including land system surveys is given, and soil erosion and conservation are discussed, as is the possible application of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) to Papua New Guinea conditions. Type, depth, rate and the assessment of the degree of weathering are dealt with, together with some examples from Papua New Guinea. The author examines the content of primary nutrients (N, P and K) in some typical great soil groups and trace element deficiencies in tree crops. A review of soil microrelief features at various locations in Papua New Guinea is given, while the last chapter briefly examines traditional food crop agriculture, especially in relation to soil properties and crop yield declines under cultivation.
Access to privilege: patterns of participation in Australian post-secondary education »
Publication date: 1983
The main question addressed in this book is whether the social composition of higher education has changed since the 1930s and 1940s. Since that time there has been a tremendous expansion in higher education and policies have been developed aimed at increasing participation by the poor. The answer to the question appears to be that the social profile of higher education is remarkably constant over time; the authors point out, however, that the abolition of tuition fees after 1974 and the introduction of student allowances probably helped counter a regression to a more elite composition caused by the withdrawal of other assistance, particularly education studentships. Nevertheless the authors conclude that access to higher education remains mainly limited to the privileged.
Population resettlement programs in Southeast Asia »
Publication date: 1982
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The Premiers' Conference 1905: report of proceedings »
Publication date: 1982
This book includes a facsmile copy of The Premiers' Conference 1905: Report of Proceedings and an Introduction by Professor P.D. Groenewegen describing and evaluating the contents of the report.
Service delivery to outstations »
Publication date: 1982
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Poetry of the Stewart court »
Publication date: 1982
The intention of this anthology is to present a full and evenly balanced selection of the poetry of the Stewart court, making available much that has been unfairly neglected but allowing poems which have often been abstracted from their context by modern anthologists to be read in their proper setting. The book is in two parts. First is a commentary of nine chapters describing the Bannatyne Manuscript, a large collection of Scottish poetry compiled in Edinburgh in 1568. The commentary seeks to establish the importance of the Manuscript as a comprehensive and deliberately interpretative anthology of medieval and renaissance Scottish poetry, arguing that modern editors are too frequently guided by their own critical preoccupations and that George Bannatyne chose and arranged his anthology in such a way as to present a conspectus of the five medieval and renaissance uses of poetry. The second part of the book is an anthology of some 17,000 lines of poetry chosen from the Bannatyne Manuscript. It retains Bannatyne's arrangement into five parts and, within those parts, his order. Many of the poems are of the highest quality by any criteria ofjudgment, but the selection has not been made at the expense of poems which were clearly more highly valued by Bannatyne than they would be now.
Karo: the life and fate of a Papuan »
Publication date: 1982
This is a book about a murder. A book about prison, about the clash of cultures and about wild men. Karo was a wild man and a clever one and this book is an attempt to trace his life. It is the history of a Papuan man born in the early part of the twentieth century and follows the path that led him to the most horrible murders and finally to the gallows. An attempt also to understand why he had another, legendary life beyond the gallows. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. It was part of her interest in the colonial condition, which was stimulated when she read of the way the lives of those in gaol can throw a great deal of light on the lowly who are also illiterate. Particularly was this the case in colonial Papua where those who landed in gaol were likely to be a cross section of those villagers who came in contact with the white man's law, most of which they did not understand. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people.
Adelaide Aborigines: a case study of urban life, 1966-1981 »
Publication date: 1982
This monograph describes the economic position of Aborigines living in an urban setting. Aborigines form a very small minority in Adelaide, a city of some one million inhabitants. The present social and economic situation of Adelaide Aborigines is compared with studies made in 1966 and 1973 and with the non-Aboriginal population. With a deteriorating economic climate in the city, especially as regards employment, Aborigines have bad difficulty in maintaining the advantage they acquired by migrating to the city in earlier decades. In contrast to the situation of the 1960s they do not now appear to be better off economically than their rural counterparts. City people have developed various strategies to prevent them slipping even further down the poverty scale. The special Aboriginal services, especially in areas such as housing, have been important in preventing them from losing ground in economic terms. Their extremely high rates of unemployment are evidence of their social disadvantages as a minority group.
Czech writers and politics 1945-1969 »
Publication date: 1982
"It is easy to oversimplify the social role of writers. At times they make the bullets to be fired by others: at other times they fire bullets made for them: some times they are the target." The book considers the role of Czech writers in the period 1945-69, in particular how far their work was influenced by politics and to what extent they influenced it. A closely documented study of the social, economic, and political scene accompanies the literary study.
State-municipal fiscal relations: a comparative study of Australia and India »
Publication date: 1982
This is a comparative study of State-municipal fiscal relations, with particular reference to New South Wales in Australia and West Bengal in India. After outlining the broad structural features of municipal authorities and the framework of State- municipal transfer arrangements, the study con centrates on the operative aspects of intergovern mental fiscal relations in a sub-national context. The results of the study indicate commonalities as well as differences in the transfer arrangements, including the role of federal institutions in financing municipal government.
Demographic impact on socio-economic development: the Malaysian experience »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3367 1885_114789.jpg ANU Press Demographic impact on socio-economic development: the Malaysian experience Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Cheong, Kee Cheok
SERVICE DELIVERY TO REMOTE COMMUNITIES »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2683 1885_114679.jpg ANU Press SERVICE DELIVERY TO REMOTE COMMUNITIES Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
Indological and Buddhist studies: volume in honour of Professor J.W.de Jong on his sixtieth birthday »
Publication date: 1982
Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday
Environmental water quality: a systems study in Tuggeranong Creek and Kambah Pool »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2701 1885_114700.jpg ANU Press Environmental water quality: a systems study in Tuggeranong Creek and Kambah Pool Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
Town populations »
Publication date: 1982
This second volume in the series, The Aboriginal Component in the Australian Economy, consists of four case studies of Aboriginal communities living as minority populations in medium-sized and small towns and cities in different parts of Australia. Elspeth Young discusses surveys made of a number of New South Wales country towns. Jenny Bryant writes about Robinvale, on the Victorian side of the River Murray. David Drakakis Smith's study is of the Alice Springs community. The fourth chapter, by Hans Dagmar, gives an account of the Aboriginal community of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The studies indicate a general movement of Aborigines into towns and cities. Housing, income, employment, health and education all show improvement since the 1960s, but are still at a level lower than that of the general community.
Public sector borrowing in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
This book considers a number of recent developments and issues affecting Australian public sector borrowing, including: criteria for borrowing; the present and future role of the Australian Loan Council; the relationship between public sector borrowing requirements and public debt management, the role of the Reserve Bank with respect to the relationship between government borrowing operations, monetary policy and the marketing of Commonwealth securities; and the role of the market in meeting the borrowing requirements of different levels of government and different kinds of public authorities. Individual chapters are presented from the perspective of a State Treasury, a State commercial and semigovernment authority, a market practitioner the Reserve Bank and a State Dank.
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.
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.
Yugul: an Arnhem Land cattle station »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3633 1885_115088.jpg ANU Press Yugul: an Arnhem Land cattle station Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Thiele, Steven
The French in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3183 1885_114814.jpg ANU Press The French in Australia Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Stuer, Anny P. L