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A history of forestry in Australia »
Publication date: 1985
Forestry is the wise and sustained fostering, production and use by people of the many values, benefits and products of forests. The development of forestry in Australia in this sense, from first settlement by Europeans in 1788 to the end of the 1970s, is outlined in this book. At political federation in 1901, the State Governments retained responsibility for, and authority over, the forests within their borders. However, the powers they ceded at Federation and since have enabled the Commonwealth Government to increase its influence over the whole forestry sector. The federal system of government has thus complicated what might otherwise have been a simple history of forestry in each state, and, in keeping with these circumstances, A History of Forestry in Australia is structured around the development of forestry in each state, the role of the Commonwealth, and Commonwealth-State integration. Until the 1 960s, few people outside the forestry profession or the forest-based industries were particularly interested in forestry in Australia. Most people tended to take forests and forestry projects for granted. But, with the wave of concern for 'conservation of the environment' which began to gather force around that time, many people began to take a critical, personal interest in the forest estate, its management and managers. Therefore, Dr Carron pays extra attention to some of the more controversial public issues of the 1970s. A History of Forestry in Australia has been written with a number of aims. One is to provide the professional forester and student with a history of Australian forestry. At the same time, it is directed beyond the profession - to historians, politicians and conservationists, and all people with an interest in the historical development of this important land use.
Dear Fanny: Women's letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857 / Chosen and introduced by Helen Heney. »
Publication date: 1985
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3527 1885_115147.jpg ANU Press Dear Fanny: Women's letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857 / Chosen and introduced by Helen Heney. Sunday, 18 August, 1985 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Heney, Helen, 1907-1986
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 8 »
Publication date: 1984
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.
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The Samoan journals of John Williams, 1830 and 1832 »
Publication date: 1984
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3685 1885_114743.jpg ANU Press The Samoan journals of John Williams, 1830 and 1832 Saturday, 18 August, 1984 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Williams, John
Beyond walking distance: the gains from speed in Australian urban travel »
Publication date: 1984
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3111 1885_114707.jpg ANU Press Beyond walking distance: the gains from speed in Australian urban travel Saturday, 18 August, 1984 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Manning, Ian
Alcohol in the Outback: Two studies of drinking »
Publication date: 1984
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3375 1885_115072.jpg ANU Press Alcohol in the Outback: Two studies of drinking Saturday, 18 August, 1984 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Brady, Maggie
In the land of strangers: a century of European contact with Tanna, 1774-1874 »
Publication date: 1984
The first century of contact between Europeans and the people of Tanna, in the group formerly called the New Hebrides and now known as Vanuatu, was characterized by mutual misunderstanding, distrust and hostility. To most European observers, the Tannese were something less than human - bestial and bloodthirsty. To the Tannese, the Europeans were something more than human - if not returned ancestors, at least in close call with the all-important spiritual realm. In terms of their preconceptions, each side was given ample proof of the other's treachery, and Tannese-European relations during the first hundred years revolved around attempts by each side to control the other. As this study shows, the result was inconclusive, and Tanna entered its second century of contact with Europe with a reputation as dark, but a spirit as unrepentant, as at any time in its past.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 7 »
Publication date: 1983
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.
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Aboriginal arts and crafts and the market »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2767 1885_116874.jpg ANU Press Aboriginal arts and crafts and the market Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
Tax assignment in federal countries »
Publication date: 1983
This book examines the assignment of taxes and other revenue sources among various levels of government in a federation. Four pap rs consider alternative normative approaches to revenue assignment - traditional, optimal taxation, public choice and tax effectiveness. Four papers are concerned with particular revenue sources - corporation income taxes, natural resource revenues, broad-based sales taxes and excises, and local government revenues in less developed countries. Five papers review the patterns of assignment which have been adopted in five economically advanced federations - the United States, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and Australia - and in four less developed federations - Brazil, India, Malaysia and Nigeria. The papers were originally presented to a conference at the Australian National University in Canberra in August 1982. The conference was convened by the International Seminar in Public Economics in association with the Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations.