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A thousand miles away: a history of North Queensland to 1920 »
Publication date: 1970
North Queensland is the most successful example in the British Commonwealth of a tropical region settled by Europeans. Here the Australian way of life has been transplanted almost intact. But one hundred years ago, when North Queensland was settled, it was taken for granted that white men could not work in the tropics Sugar plantations were founded on imported Pacific Island labour. Meanwhile, inland North Queensland was developed by squatters and miners whose way of thinking differed widely from the planters. How could these two traditions exist together in one community? How was the prosperity of North Queensland reconciled w ith the White Australia policy? In the first two generations of settlement, from 1861 to 1920, these questions were posed and answered. Professor Bolton draws on sources ranging from reports of government departments to the reminiscences of old residents to trace the social, economic, political, and human story of the early settlement of North Queensland. Since it was first published in 1963, this account of the realities of pioneering has proved so popular th at it is now in its second impression.
Australian defence procurement »
Publication date: 1970
This is the first study ever undertaken of the policies of Australian governments towards the acquisition of weapons for the armed forces. The growth of the Australian defence budget in recent years and the burgeoning cost and complexity of modern armaments have made this subject of considerable interest, not only to those who plan and carry out the policies, but to all concerned as to how a large slice of national income is being spent. The study covers the period from the early fifties to the present day, but naturally lays emphasis on the much expanded defence purchases of recent years, including the F - l l l . Future prospects are examined and, in particular, there is a discussion of the chances for success of the new philosophy of greater Australian self-sufficiency in defence materiel. The tables of expenditure collate for the first time figures derived from a variety of published sources, some rather obscure, in an attempt to present a detailed continuous picture of the shape of Australian defence spending.
Isolationism and appeasement in Australia: reactions to the European crises, 1935-1939 »
Publication date: 1970
Australian foreign policy in the late 1930s has till now been a neglected topic in historical writing. In this book the author examines Australian reactions to the aggressions which led to World War II - Abyssinia, Spain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. He describes the early support in Britain and Australia for the League of Nations, and goes on to discuss the causes of the change to a policy of appeasement, culminating in the Munich crisis of 1938, and Australian reactions to that crisis. Additionally, he compares Australian foreign policy at that time and in the sixties, when Australia again supports a powerful ally, this time in Vietnam. To those who lived through the crises of the thirties and now wish to see those years in perspective, as well as to readers of a younger generation, who seek the causes for the development of present-day attitudes to Australian foreign policy, this book will make absorbing reading. For teachers and students of the history of the period it will provide a welcome insight into the reactions of Australian politicians and people to the European crises and to Britain{u2019}s part in them.
A biographical register of the Victorian Parliament »
Publication date: 1970
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Handbook of Australian languages »
Publication date: 1970
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Vera Mackie »
Vera Mackie, FASSA, is Senior Professor of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include The Routledge handbook of sexuality studies in East Asia (co-edited with Mark McLelland; Routledge 2015); Ways of knowing about human rights in Asia (Routledge 2015); Gender, nation and state in modern Japan (co-edited with Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr; Routledge 2014); Gurōbaruka to Jendā Hyōshō [Globalisation and representations of gender] (Ochanomizu Shobō 2003); Feminism in modern Japan: Citizenship, embodiment and sexuality (Cambridge 2003); and Human rights and gender politics: Asia-Pacific perspectives (co‑edited with Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre and Maila Stivens; Rutledge 2000).
Carol Johnson »
Carol Johnson is a Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide and author of a number of influential works on Australian politics including Governing Change: From Keating to Howard (2007) and The Labor Legacy: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke (1989). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former president of the Australian Political Studies Association.
Hsu-Ann Lee »
Hsu-Ann Lee holds a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts (Spanish Honours) from The Australian National University and is a research assistant for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
John Taylor »
John Taylor is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Policy Associate of the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium (International) based at the University of Western Ontario. He is a population geographer specialising in the demography of indigenous peoples.
Peter Drysdale »
Peter Drysdale is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He is widely acknowledged as the leading intellectual architect of APEC. He was founding head of the Australia-Japan Research Centre. He is recipient of the Asia Pacific Prize, the Weary Dunlop Award, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, the Australian Centenary Medal and he is a Member of the Order of Australia, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters, from the Australian National University. He is presently Head of East Asia Forum the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and the South Asia Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011-12, he served on the Advisory and Cabinet Committee of the Australian Government’s White Paper on Australia’s in the Asian Century and is currently a member of the Strategic Advisory Board for implementation of the White Paper.
Harold Koch »
Harold Koch has been involved in research and teaching Aboriginal linguistics for 35 years. He has a special interest in issues of language change and the methods of reconstructing earlier states of language.
Luise Hercus »
Luise Hercus (née Schwarzschild) was born in Munich in 1926 and was educated in England from 1939. She was a Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, having studied both Modern Languages and Oriental Studies. In 1962 she began working independently on salvage work in Aboriginal Languages, studying languages that were on the brink of extinction. She has continued this work ever since with help from the ARC and AIATSIS. She was Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Sanskrit at The Australian National University from 1969 to 1991. Since then she has been Visiting Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, School of Language Studies, ANU, writing up grammars, dictionaries and traditional texts, and continuing fieldwork mainly in the north of South Australia and adjacent areas of New South Wales and Queensland.
Frances Morphy »
Frances Morphy is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at The Australian National University. Frances Morphy’s research interests include the anthropological demography of Australian Aboriginal populations, population structure and dynamics in remote Aboriginal Australia, and the representation of Aboriginal people in the national census. Frances Morphy is also interested in anthropology and linguistics of the Yolngu-speaking peoples of north east Arnhem Land, and social, cultural and economic aspects of the encapsulation of Aboriginal Australians within the Australian state, in particular the homelands movement, land rights and native title, the governance of Aboriginal community organisations, the impact of colonisation on Indigenous social systems and languages, and problems of cross-cultural ‘translation’.
Ron Duncan »
Ron Duncan is Professor Emeritus, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University (ANU). During the period 2003 to 2007 he was Foundation Executive Director, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the National Centre for Development Studies at ANU (9 years) and Director of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at ANU (now the Crawford School) for 2 years.
Ron’s career has also spanned work with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, the Australian Government’s Industries Assistance Commission, and the World Bank (14 years).
Ron is Editor of the Asian-Pacific Economic Literature journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Ron is an economist with special interests in agricultural, trade, and competition policies, management of natural resources, and economic development in developing countries. His primary developing country interests are China and Vietnam and countries of the South Pacific.
In 2003, Ron was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Society through Economics; and in 2006 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Bernadette Hince »
Bernadette Hince is a historian and dictionary writer who researches the language and history of the polar regions. Her association with Antarctica began 20 years ago. She is now writing a historical dictionary of Arctic English, which follows The Antarctic Dictionary, and is a visiting fellow at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra.
Arnan Wiesel »
Pianist Arnan Wiesel is a former head of keyboard at The Australian National University’s School of Music in Canberra. With Alice Giles he devised the Antarctica and Music celebration at the School of Music to commemorate the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14.
Rupert Summerson »
Rupert Summerson, an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, is a scientist and musician who researches wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica. He has had a long association with Antarctica, spending three winters there.
Anna Kenny »
Anna Kenny is a consultant anthropologist who has been based in Alice Springs for 25 years and was an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University between 2012 and 2016. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory since 1991, as well as in Queensland and Western Australia, and has written many connection reports for native title claims that have supported successful native title determinations. She is the author of a book on Carl Strehlow’s ethnography, The Aranda’s Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow’s Masterpiece Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (1907–1920) and co-edited with Nic Peterson German Ethnography in Australia. Currently, she is working on several native title claims and a monograph on T.G.H. Strehlow’s anthropology called Shadows of a Father.
Bettina Arndt »
Bettina Arndt trained as a clinical psychologist before becoming well known as one of Australia’s first sex therapists. As editor of Forum magazine, she taught medical students, doctors and other professionals and worked in the media educating the public about this fascinating subject.
She then moved on to writing about broader social issues, working as a columnist and feature writer for leading newspapers and magazines. As a respected social commentator she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from family law to childcare and ageing.
In 2010 she published the best-selling book, The Sex Diaries, based on research involving couples keeping diaries showing how they negotiate their sex supply. The sequel – What Men Want – was published in late 2010. She is currently enjoying speaking about her new research to audiences across Australia and overseas.
Peter Drake »
Peter Drake graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1962. Heinz Arndt supervised his PhD studies at The Australian National University which were completed in 1966. In his career as an academic economist Peter became expert on monetary systems and financial development, working on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Pacific island economies. His books include Financial Development in Malaya and Singapore (1969); Money, Finance and Development (1980); Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia (2004). Peter was Professor of Economics, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of New England, Armidale, before becoming the founding Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University in 1991. In 2003 he was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia in recognition of his contributions to university leadership, the study of economics and the delivery of overseas aid.
Howard Morphy »
Howard Morphy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.
Prior to returning to ANU in 1997, he held the chair in Anthropology at University College London. Before that he spent ten years as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He is an anthropologist of art and visual anthropologist.
He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art with a monograph of Yolngu Art, Ancestral Connections (Chicago 1991), Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) and most recently Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (Berg, 2007). He has also produced a pioneering multimedia biography The Art of Narritjin Maymuru with Pip Deveson and Katie Hayne (ANU Press 2005). He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film Australia and has curated many exhibitions including Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia. With Frances Morphy he helped prepare the Blue Mud Bay Native Title Claim which as a result of the 2008 High Court judgement recognised Indigenous ownership of the waters over the intertidal zone under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act.
His involvement in e-research and in the development of museum exhibitions reflects his determination to make humanities research as accessible as possible to wider publics and to close the distance between the research process and research outcomes.
David W. Lovell »
David Lovell is a Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales at ADFA. During 2004 he was Acting Rector of UNSW@ADFA, and in 2008 he was Deputy Rector. He gained his doctorate in the field of the History of Ideas, and his major research interests are in the problems of democratisation. In 1992 he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and in 1993 was Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is co-editor of its journal, The European Legacy. He is also a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He initiated the University’s links with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies in 2001, and has forged university links with Manipal University, India, and Airlangga University, Indonesia. During 2005 he was a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Europe Centre and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and concurrently held a visiting professorship at the European Information Centre in Berlin. In 2005 he was invited to the EU’s ‘A Soul for Europe’ initiative in Budapest, and in 2006 he spoke at the Beijing Forum on harmony and governance. He has written or edited more than a dozen books on topics including Australian politics, communist and post-communist systems, and the history of ideas. His most recent publications include: The Transition: Evaluating the postcommunist experience (edited, 2002); Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges (edited, 2003; second edn 2004); Freedom and Equality in Marx’s Utopia (edited, special issue of The European Legacy, 2004); Our Unswerving Loyalty: A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920-1940 (with K. Windle, edited, 2008); and Protecting Civilians during Violent Conflict: Theoretical and practical issues for the 21st Century (with I. Primoratz, edited, forthcoming 2011).
John Gillespie »
John Gillespie is a Professor in Law and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group at Monash University. His research interests include Asian comparative law, law and development theory and ethnographic research. His current work concerns land dispute mediation in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has also consulted for a wide range of international donors such as the World Bank, UNDP, IFC, Danida and Asia Foundation on legal development projects in East Asia. Recent book publications include (with Fu Hualing eds) Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia: Exploring the Limits of Law, 2014; (with Michael Dowdle and Imelda Maher eds.,) Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law ‘Competition, Regulation and Capitalism Lessons from Asia’ (2013); and (with Pip Nicholson eds.,) Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (2012).