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Canberra's embassies »
Publication date: 1978
The sixty-one embassies in Canberra are the national and cultural showplaces of each country represented in the federal capital. They are richly varied in their architecture: traditional Thai, colonial American, simply French and strikingly New Zealand. Many of these embassies, and seventeen in detail, are described and pictured in this book, which gives their locations and a useful map to help the reader find them.
High power high energy pulse production and application: the proceedings of an Australian-US Seminar on Energy Storage, Compression and Switching, SESCAS '77, 15-21 November, 1977 »
Publication date: 1978
Interest has grown rapidly in new methods of storing megajoules of energy and delivering it to loads in times ranging from about one second to less than a millisecond. It is clear that storage by capacitors is reaching the limit of applicability, and new methods are required for powering the next generation of tokamaks, theta pinches, large lasers and pulsed electron and ion beam machines. During the past 25 years, a small but vital group in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Australian National University, has designed and built a homopolar generator to store 500 MJ and capable of discharging in about Is to produce current in excess of IMA at 400V for Is. It has been in operation for 13 years but is still the largest facility of its kind in the world. This record of papers presented at the Seminar held at the ANU provides more details of the Canberra homopolar generator than any other publication. Other papers provide information on fast discharge homopolar machines developed at the University of Texas at Austin, The Westinghouse Corporation, and at the Argonne National Laboratory. Details are also given of the latest operation and methods of switching large dc currents. Other papers deal with the application of these techniques to the powering of large fusion machines.
Landform evolution in Australasia »
Publication date: 1978
A reappraisal of landform evolution in Australasia is both timely and necessary. Over a decade has elapsed since the publication of Landform Studies from Australia and New Guinea edited by J.N. Jennings and J.A. Mabbutt, and since then there have been several important developments in earth sciences with profound repercussions for Australasian geomorphology. Plate tectonic concepts are revitalising our approach to traditional problems in structural and historical geomorphology. The wealth of new data on the absolute age of rocks and sediments in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, made possible by scores of radio-carbon, potassium-argon, and uranium-thorium age determinations, is already causing us to question and reject many hitherto unquestioned and seemingly unassailable geomorphic paradigms. In addition, the earlier and necessarily descriptive approach to landscape evolution in Australasia is now yielding pride of place to a new type of field investigation founded upon accurate experimental monitoring of river load, solution rates, beach sediments and hillslope mantles. The seventeen essays in this volume reflect some of the achievements as well as some of the difficulties involved in investigating land- form evolution in Australasia. Part one deals with the age and timing of uplift, the stability of planation surfaces, and the sensitivity of river systems to hydrological change. Parts two to four discuss coastal deposits, chemical denudation, and pediments. Part five on geomorphic models suggests ways of relating process studies to actual landform development. This book will be of interest to geologists, geomorphologists and indeed to any earth scientist concerned to understand how our present landscape has evolved.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 1 »
Publication date: 1977
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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Reforming Australian government: the Coombs report and beyond »
Publication date: 1977
This book makes it possible for those who need to know and think about the issues raised by the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration to do so without having to read all the Commission's formidable documentation. It also includes the full text of the Commission's own summary of its findings and recommendations - here published for the first time.
Rambles around Canberra: an illustrated collection of short interesting walks in the Canberra region »
Publication date: 1977
Here are details, carefully mapped and described, of seventeen walks in the Canberra area. The walks are stimulating but not strenuous. Most have been chosen with the family group in mind and are deliberately in the easy category. As well as a clear description of the route the reader's attention is drawn to interesting physical features and to details of the flora and fauna likely to be encountered. The text is illustrated with appropriate photographs and botanical drawings.
Factory waste potential in Sydney »
Publication date: 1977
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Change and movement: readings on internal migration in Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1977
Large scale internal migration is comparatively recent in Papua New Guinea and the proportion of the population living in towns is small. Already, however, migration and urbanisation pose serious problems for social and economic policy makers. This book brings together a number of important papers on internal migration in Papua New Guinea. The fifteen contributions, some reprints of major articles and others written especially for this volume, represent a significant part of the data at present available. The introduction surveys the Papua New Guinea literature on the subject and relates it to overseas studies. Not only will this collection be valuable to all concerned with the policy implications of internal migration and urbanisation in Papua New Guinea; it will be essential reading for anthropologists, demographers, economists and geographers interested in migration in developing countries.
State and local taxation »
Publication date: 1977
Though taxation is a subject of interest to everyone, and many books have been written on reform of the Australian Government's taxation system, State and local taxation is a relatively neglected field. This book attempts to fill the gap by extending the range of theoretical and empirical studies on State and local taxation and by presenting an analysis of major policy issues. The first part deals mainly with theoretical and conceptual questions. Part Two compares State and local taxation in Canada, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Part Three contrasts them with the systems in Australia and surveys the most important individual State and local taxes. State and local taxation is regionally significant but it is also increasingly important in national economic and political events. The value of this book cannot, therefore, be over-stressed.
The Melanesian environment: [papers presented at and arising from the ninth Waigani Seminar, Port Moresby, 2-8 May 1975] »
Publication date: 1977
Expatriate and multinational businessmen and companies have, over the last hundred years, drastically changed the environments of some of the islands of Melanesia. In some, like Fiji and parts of New Caledonia, the changes have taken place over a long period of foreign exploitation. In others, like the island of New Guinea, large-scale forestry, mining, hydroelectric, agricultural and fishing projects are more recent. In both, poorly planned and insensitive {u2018}development{u2019} has destroyed or is threatening to destroy the people{u2019}s economic, spiritual and aesthetic relationship with the land and, indeed, the land itself. The seminar from which this book was born was held in Papua New Guinea in 1975, its year of independence. The only other independent nation in the Melanesian region is Fiji. While Fiji tends the wounds caused to its environment by foreign business, Papua New Guinea warily plans for an expanded economic base that does not jeopardise the subsistence base of the majority of the people. They and their Melanesian neighbours will avoid such destruction partly by heeding the experiences of one another and of other third world countries. This book records some of those experiences, ranging from situations in which the subsistence economy has been destroyed to make profit to take out of the country to others in which the people have successfully defended their subsistence way of life against such exploitation.