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Helga M Griffin »
Helga Maria Griffin (née Girschik) was born in Turkey in 1935. In 1956, she married an Australian in Rome. She subsequently raised six children in Australia and Papua New Guinea. She taught in further education, and from 1979–98 was on the staff of the Australian Dictionary of Biography project. With Anthony Regan, she edited the comprehensive study Bougainville Before the Conflict (Pandanus Books, 2005).
Trish Mercer »
Trish Mercer is a Visiting Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government at The Australian National University.
Russell Ayres »
Russell Ayres is a policy consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
Brian Head »
Brian Head is the Director of the Centre for Policy Futures and Professor of Public Policy in the School of Political Science, University of Queensland.
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Darryl Palmer »
Darryl Palmer has a BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne; a BD (Hons) from Drew University; and a ThM from Harvard University. He has been lecturing in Classics since 1960.
Understanding the news in 2021 »
As the Myanmar coup continues to rattle world politics, two books shed a light on Myanmar’s turbulent democratic history. Trevor Wilson’s Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar and Andrew Selth’s 2020 publication Interpreting Myanmar are available for free download. With the UNHCR reporting that
ANU Press triumphs in year of turmoil »
Bolstered by the unprecedented growth in remote online learning, ANU Press enjoyed its most successful year to date. With a collection now exceeding 940 titles and 5 million downloads annually, ANU Press emerged from the turmoil of 2020 as one of the world’s largest open-access publishing houses.
Top education titles »
ANU Press specialises in publications from Asia and Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy. Highlighting the diversity of ANU Press’s collection, we recommend the following titles for students or educators. All readers can browse the catalogue by subject area and
Elizabeth Buchanan »
Elizabeth Buchanan is Lecturer of Strategic Studies with Deakin University and a Fellow of the Modern War Institute at West Point. Dr Buchanan holds a PhD in Russian Arctic strategy from The Australian National University and was recently the Visiting Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College. She has been a Visiting Scholar with the Brookings Institution and has experience in the global oil sector.
Catherine Fisher »
Dr Catherine Fisher is a historian and policy adviser who holds a PhD from the School of History at The Australian National University. She co-edited Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her work has been published in Women’s History Review and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, and she has contributed to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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Graeme Smith »
Graeme Smith is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. His academic background is in Chinese politics, as one of few Western scholars to have worked within local government in China. He has won best article prizes by China Quarterly and The Journal of Pacific History, and co-hosts the award-winning Little Red Podcast with former NPR and BBC China correspondent Louisa Lim.
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More Pacific Islands portraits »
Publication date: 2025
This book, a worthy successor to the first Pacific Islands Portraits edited by the late W. Davidson and Deryck Scarr, tells the stories of more of the colourful characters. Islanders and expatriates, who lived in the Pacific islands during the past 150 years. This collection of thirteen essays deals with people with such differing views as Charles Saint Julian, the visionary who drew up constitutions through which he hoped island communities would become what the western world would consider civilised states; Apolosi R. Nawai, a messianic leader in Fiji who challenged established authority; C. M. Woodford, the naturalist who came to study nature hut finished as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate; Henry Nanpei who manipulated successive European overlords. These and others come to life in the pages of this book. There is much here for the Pacific historian hut others also will find entertainment and food for thought in these accounts.
A bibliography of the First Fleet »
Publication date: 2025
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Oil search in Australia »
Publication date: 2025
Written primarily for the layman, this book is an account of the history, development and current activities in the search for oil in Australia. It outlines the geological factors controlling the generation of oil and natural gas in sedimentary basins and surveys the petroleum potential of onshore and offshore regions. Geological, technological and economic factors are defined and the present and possible future production of crude oil and natural gas in Australia are discussed. Mention is also made of the potential production of synthetic oil from oil shale and coal. This is an authoritative reference work which explains in simple terms the scientific, technological and economic aspects of the search for oil in Australia.
A handbook of Australian government and politics »
Publication date: 2025
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The majesty of colour: a life of Sir John Bates Thurston »
Publication date: 2025
John Bates Thurston began life, he said, aboard a barque bound for India - as a 13-year-old apprentice in love with the sea. Some years later, marooned in the South Seas after a shipwreck, he elected to stay on in Fiji. From being Acting British Consul and cotton planter he rose to be Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the office he held up to his death in 1897. Dr Scarr has delved into diaries, private letters, official correspondence and newspapers to reconstruct the colourful life story of Thurston, one of the most personally compelling and historically significant figures in modern Pacific history. He succeeds in presenting him as utterly honest and forthright, touchy and arrogant, a man often between anger and laughter - above all, completely devoted to his adopted country and its people. At the same time he conveys something of the spell that Fiji cast over Thurston when he first went to the Pacific and which remained with him always. In this book, the first part of a 2-volume work, Thurston is at odds with his own emigrant society and its racist views. But as intimate and supporter of the chiefs he is, to the Fijian elite, Na Kena Vai - the Very Bayonet, or, by free translation, the Pilot Fish. The second volume of the biography, Viceroy of the Pacific, will be concerned with Thurston as architect of policy after the Cession of Fiji to Britain in 1874, and with his role as Governor and High Commissioner. I, the Very Bayonet will not only be valued highly by historians but also read with pleasure and probe by all lovers of the Pacific and of good biography.
A biographical register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 »
Publication date: 2025
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The Pacific since Magellan »
Publication date: 2025
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Strive to be fair: an unfinished autobiography »
Publication date: 2025
In his unfinished autobiography Don Whitington looks back wryly and unsentimentally on his family, his youth, and his profession. Born in Victoria of incompatible parents, who separated, he grew up in some hardship, in Tasmania. Poverty - and lack of application - cut his education short and he qualified as a woolclasser in time to lose his job in the Depression. He worked then asa jackaroo, travelling extensively in outback Australia - and finally, with {u00A3}5 in his pocket, he decided to become a journalist, thus unwittingly following in the footsteps of three generations of Whitingtons. The story of his youth is told with a lively humour that laughs at himself and laughs with others. Whitington brought to his profession a sense of justice and compassion, a keen sense of humour and an eye for the ridiculous. One of the longest serving members of the Canberra Press Gallery, he met and mixed with people from all walks of life, with politicians and journalists of all persuasions and abilities. His comments on some of the events and personalities of his times are candid, and pointed. This book is a lively, racy, informed and enjoyable story of a man who graced his profession.
Territorians or mobile Australians? a profile of the urban electorate »
Publication date: 2025
At the end of the first world war the Northern Territory contained less than 4,000 whites and a larger, but uncounted, population of Aborigines. The non-Aboriginal population remained small throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and at the time of the 1947 Census it had not quite reached 11,000. Rapid growth came in the 1960s, and vas marked by successive Censuses: 44,500 in 1961 (Aboriginals were counted for the first time), 56,500 in 1966, 85,700 in 1971, 98,200 in 1976, and 122,800 in 1981. If this steady growth continues, the Territory's population will have begun to match that of the slowly-qrowing Tasmania some time in the middle of the coming century. Long before then it will have become a considerable force in national politics. For the Territory is politically distinctive. One in every four Territorians is an Aborigine, a proportion vastly greater than in any Australian State. only a small proportion of the white population was born in the Territory, and most of its immigrants are very recent indeed. The Territory's citizens have political concerns which the citizens of the States were last preoccupied with a century ago: the building of railways and of roads, isolation, the lack of educational facilities for their children, the provision of water-supplies, and the other imperatives of a frontier society in an often harsh environment. Such a society is worth studying tor its own sake. But in addition it provides a fascinating contrast with more settled societies, which have been the source of most of the 'findings' of the social sciences. A rapidly growing society made up of a diversity of immigrants can offer its citizens few of the community structures and support systems that abound in older, established societies. If a person's political stance comes to some extent from his social milieu, what happens when people leave these milieux and go to a town where no political tradition of any consequence exists and where colleagues and neighbours have made similar departures? How much of anyone's political outlook is portable, how much relates to a particular environment? The authors of this well-designed study show that much is indeed portable. The Territory's party system is clearly a member of the family of Australian party systems, with the ALP facing a fusion of the Liberal and National Country Parties, here labelled the Country Liberal Party. And party allegiances formed elsewhere can be transferred to Territory politics with a minimum of refurbishing. But - and it is an important saver - there is no inevitability about the transfer. The smaller size of the constituencies, the intimacy of life in what are small towns, the practical roads-and-bridges focus of much politicking, the lack of a powerful union movement, the high level of government employment - all these factors operate to subdue the socio- economic ambience in which Australian political life customarily takes place. New arrivals are able either to reconsider their politics or to operate politically in different ways at the Federal level and at the Territory level. To study these processes in any detail requires the chief instrument of the modern social scientist, the sample survey, as well as the patience and dedication necessary if survey research techniques are to be used at all. The Northern Territory survey that is at the heart of this book was designed both to bring Territorians under scrutiny and also to allow comparisons with Australians in the rest of the nation. It has served its purpose well, and the authors and editors have been able to produce a book that provides new insights on the political behaviour of all Australians, not simply those adventurous citizens that have chosen to live and work in the Northern Territory.
Kate Senior »
Kate Senior is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. She has worked in collaboration with Daphne Daniels and the Ngukurr community for the last 20 years, with a particular emphasis on the lives and wellbeing of young people in the community. Research conducted for her Australian Research Council Future Fellowship provided the impetus for this publication.
Richard Chenhall »
Richard Chenhall is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He has conducted research with Indigenous communities and organisations for over 20 years in the area of the social determinants of health, alcohol and other drugs, sexual health and youth wellbeing.
ANU Press Journals
Aboriginal History Journal »
Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
Submission details
Please send article submissions to aboriginal.history@anu.edu.au.
Articles of about 7,000 words in length (including footnotes and references) are preferred, but submissions up to 9,000 words will be considered. Please submit an electronic version of the paper (text only without embedded images or scans) in Microsoft Word or RTF format, along with a short abstract and author biography as a separate document.
ANU Historical Journal II »
The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic history journal of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It is a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987. Contributors to the first journal included academics such as Ken Inglis, Manning Clark, John Ritchie and Oliver MacDonagh along with then-emerging scholars Iain McCalman, Michael McKernan, Margaret George, Coral Bell, John Iremonger, Alastair Davidson, Susan Magarey and Rosemary Auchmuty. As well as upholding the Journal’s commitment to the work of students and early career researchers, the ANUHJ II has expanded its focus to include memoirs, short articles and long-form book reviews.
The ANUHJ II invites submissions from students, graduates and academics of any Australian university.
For more information about the ANUHJ II, please visit anuhj.com.au
Australian Journal of Biography and History »
The Australian Journal of Biography and History is an initiative of the National Centre of Biography (NCB) in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. The NCB was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for the study of life writing in Australia, supporting innovative research and writing to the highest standards in the field, nationally and internationally. The Australian Journal of Biography and History seeks to promote the study of biography in Australia. Articles that appear in the journal are lively, engaging and provocative, and are intended to appeal to the current popular and scholarly interest in biography, memoir and autobiography. They recount interesting and telling life stories and engage critically with issues and problems in historiography and life writing.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on Australian historical biography, including biographical studies, studies relating to theory and methodology, and the associated genres of autobiography, life writing, memoir, collective biography and prosopography. We are especially interested in articles that explore the way in which biography and its associated genres can illuminate themes in Australian history, including women in Australian society, family history, transnational networks and mobilities, and Indigenous history.
Submission Details
Please send article submissions or abstracts to the Editor, Dr Malcolm Allbrook, National Centre of Biography, The Australian National University. Email: Malcolm.Allbrook@anu.edu.au. Articles should be in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 words (excluding footnotes), although longer submissions may be considered after consultation with the Editor. Style and referencing: please use footnotes in Chicago style, and follow British spelling.
East Asia Forum Quarterly »
East Asia Forum Quarterly grew out of East Asia Forum (EAF) online, which has developed a reputation for providing a platform for the best in Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia Pacific region in world affairs. EAFQ aims to provide a further window onto research in the leading research institutes in Asia and to provide expert comment on current developments within the region. The East Asia Forum Quarterly, like East Asia Forum online, is an initiative of the East Asia Forum (EAF) and its host organisation, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University.
Submission details
Unsolicited submissions to EAF are welcome. An analytic op-ed piece that is accessible to a general audience and written in crisp language is required. The preferred length of submissions is around 800 words. Submissions will be double-blind reviewed and, if accepted for publication, edited for English fluency and house style before returned for clearance by the author. EAFQ does not use footnotes but would be extremely appreciative if hyperlinks to internet sources are included wherever possible. EAFQ reserves the right to determine the title for any piece, but will not publish a piece or a title without permission. A suggested title is appreciated. If you have any further queries, or would like to submit, please contact shiro.armstrong@anu.edu.au.
Human Ecology Review »
Human Ecology Review is a semi-annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions (Research in Human Ecology). The journal also publishes essays, discussion papers, dialogue, and commentary on special topics relevant to human ecology (Human Ecology Forum), book reviews (Contemporary Human Ecology), and letters, announcements, and other items of interest (Human Ecology Bulletin). Human Ecology Review also publishes an occasional paper series in the Philosophy of Human Ecology and Social–Environmental Sustainability.
Submission details
For information on preparing your manuscript for submission, please visit www.humanecologyreview.org. To submit a manuscript to Human Ecology Review, please visit mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=her, or email humanecologyreviewjournal@gmail.com.
Humanities Research »
Humanities Research is a peer-reviewed, open access, annual journal that promotes outstanding innovative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship to advance critical knowledge about the human world and society.
The journal is co-published by the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra. It was launched in 1997 and went into hiatus in 2013. In 2022, the journal is resuming publication, reflecting the continuing strength of the humanities at The Australian National University, the rapid development of the interdisciplinary, environmental and public humanities over the last decade, and the opportunities for international collaboration reflected in the resumption of international travel in 2022.
Issues are thematic with guest editors and address important and timely topics across all branches of the humanities.
International Review of Environmental History »
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance of locality in understanding these global processes.
The journal’s goal is to be read across disciplines, not just within history. It publishes on all thematic and geographic topics of environmental history, but especially encourage articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘global south’.
Submission details
Please send article submissions or abstracts to the Editor, Associate Professor James Beattie, Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6142, New Zealand. Email: james.beattie@vuw.ac.nz.
Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, and include a list of keywords. Articles should be in the range 5,000 to 8,000 words (including footnotes), although longer submissions may be considered after consultation with the editor. Style and referencing: please use footnotes in Chicago Style, follow British spelling, and use single quotation marks only. Find out more details about Chicago Style.
Lilith: A Feminist History Journal »
Lilith: A Feminist History Journal is an annual journal that publishes articles, essays and reviews in all areas of feminist and gender history (not limited to any particular region or time period). In addition to publishing research articles on diverse aspects of gender history, Lilith is also interested in publishing feminist historiographical and methodological essays (which may be shorter in length than typical research articles). Submissions from Australian and international early career researchers and postgraduate students are particularly encouraged.
The journal first began publication in Melbourne in 1984. It is the official journal of the Australian Women’s History Network, an organisation dedicated to promoting research and writing in all fields of women’s, feminist and gender history.
For more information about Lilith, please visit www.auswhn.org.au/lilith/.
Made in China Journal »
The Made in China Journal (MIC) is a publication focusing on labour, civil society and human rights in China. It is founded on the belief that spreading awareness of the complexities and nuances underpinning socioeconomic change in contemporary Chinese society is important, especially considering how in today’s globalised world Chinese labour issues have reverberations that go well beyond national borders. MIC rests on two pillars: the conviction that today, more than ever, it is necessary to bridge the gap between the scholarly community and the general public, and the related belief that open-access publishing is necessary to ethically reappropriate academic research from commercial publishers who restrict the free circulation of ideas.
Discontinued ANU Press Journals
Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2021.
Agenda is a refereed, ECONLIT-indexed and RePEc-listed journal of the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. Launched in 1994, Agenda provides a forum for debate on public policy, mainly (but not exclusively) in Australia and New Zealand. It deals largely with economic issues but gives space to social and legal policy and also to the moral and philosophical foundations and implications of policy.
Submission details
Authors are invited to submit articles, notes or book reviews, but are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the Editor beforehand. All manuscripts are subject to a refereeing process. Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be emailed to: william.coleman@anu.edu.au.
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Australian Humanities Review »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing with ANU Press in 2012. Current issues are available at australianhumanitiesreview.org.
Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal featuring articles, essays and reviews focusing on a wide array of topics related to literature, culture, history and politics.
craft + design enquiry »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015.
craft + design enquiry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting and disseminating research excellence generated by and about the craft and design sector. craft + design enquiry investigates the contribution that contemporary craft and design makes to society, establishing a dialogue between craft and design practice and cultural, social and environmental concerns. It includes submissions from across the field of craft and design from artists and practitioners, curators, historians, art and cultural theorists, educationalists, museum professionals, philosophers, scientists and others with a stake in the future developments of craft and design.
ANU Student Journals
ANU Undergraduate Research Journal »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/aurj
The ANU Undergraduate Research Journal presents outstanding essays taken from ANU undergraduate essay submissions. The breadth and depth of the articles chosen for publication by the editorial team and reviewed by leading ANU academics demonstrates the quality and research potential of the undergraduate talent being nurtured at ANU across a diverse range of fields.
Established in 2008, AURJ was designed to give students a unique opportunity to publish their undergraduate work; it is a peer-reviewed journal managed by a team of postgraduate student editors, with guidance from the staff of the Office of the Dean of Students.
Burgmann Journal - Research Debate Opinion »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/burgmann
Burgmann Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication of collected works of research, debate and opinion from residents and alumni of Burgmann College designed to engage and stimulate the wider community.
Cross-sections, The Bruce Hall Academic Journal »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/cs
Representing the combined energies of a large group of authors, editors, artists and researchers associated with Bruce Hall at the ANU, Cross-sections collects a range of works (from academic articles and essays to photography, digital art and installation artwork) that represents the disciplinary breadth and artistic vitality of the ANU.
Presenting a challenging and absorbing way for students to hone vital research skills, in the process, Cross-sections nurtures a fruitful environment of collaborative interaction between academics and students.
Medical Student Journal of Australia »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015.
The Medical Student Journal of Australia provides the medical school of The Australian National University with a platform for medical students to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal, communicating the results of medical and health research information clearly, accurately and with appropriate discussion of any limitations or potential bias.
Merici - Ursula Hall Academic Journal »
Please note: This journal is currently not publishing any new issues.
Merici is the combined works of undergraduate authors at Ursula Hall. Merici contains research and analysis from a range of disciplines and is thoroughly reviewed by ANU academics to ensure the showcasing of the best Ursula Hall has to offer.
The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/hv
The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology is a journal that publishes outstanding student articles in all areas of biological anthropology, including primatology, palaeoanthropology, bioarchaeology and human behavioural ecology.
While the primary goal of this journal is to publish work of the highest quality authored by undergraduate students, it will also educate students in regards to publishing in academia. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and edited by ANU academic staff.