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Australian Federal Election »
The Australian Federal Election series, which began with the election of 1987, has since the election of 2010 been published by the ANU Press. In this series, leading scholars identify and analyse the changing nature of Australian federal election campaigns. These publications have become an
Sonia Khosa »
Dr Sonia Khosa is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialising in regulatory frameworks and cross-border financial governance. Before her academic career, she served as Assistant General Manager (Law) at the SEBI, where she played a key role in enforcement, regulatory policy and international cooperation. Her work in SEBI’s Office of the Chair and International Affairs involved active engagement with global regulators such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as well as with IOSCO. Drawing on her experience at the intersection of law, policy and international finance, Dr. Khosa brings unique insight into the dynamics of regulatory collaboration.
Garth Pratten »
Garth Pratten is an Associate Professor specialising in the history of command and military operations in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He was a member of the team led by Professor David Horner that produced the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations.
Miwa Hirono »
Dr Miwa Hirono is an associate dean at the College of Global Liberal Arts and a professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. Prior to her current appointment, she held a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, and taught at The Australian National University, where she was awarded a PhD in International Relations, the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She was also a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.
Foreign investment and industrialisation in Singapore »
Publication date: 1969
Singapore has faced extremely difficult economic conditions in the 1960s, and these will be exacerbated by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom military establishment during the next few years. Foreign investment can play an important role in Singapore's economy and at the same time make profits for the foreign investors. This book explores the problems involved. The aim of the surveys conducted by Dr Hughes and her colleagues during 1966 and 1967 was to see whether the incentives offered by Singapore to foreign investors were suitable and effective, to evaluate the contribution made by foreign investors to the development of manufacturing in Singapore, and to highlight the problems they faced. The most surprising finding of the book is that direct financial incentives to foreign investors are unnecessary. Singapore's principal attraction to outside investors lies in its efficient administration and the provision of public services, while its central geographic situation in Southeast Asia has to some extent offset the smallness of its internal market. The book will be of particular interest to two kinds of reader: manufacturers, administrators, and others concerned with investment in Southeast Asia, and economists everywhere who are studying the economic development of the area, the problems of establishing manufacturing industries in developing countries, and the economics of direct foreign investment.
Stratigraphy and palaeontology: essays in honour of Dorothy Hill »
Publication date: 1969
Geology is Earth history. The twenty essays in this book are concerned primarily with illustrating this history by reference to four aspects of stratigraphy and palaeontology: the biological interpretation of fossils, biostratigraphy and biogeography, descriptive palaeontology, and marine sedimentation and geomorphology. The dictum that 'palaeontology is the handmaid of stratigraphy' - without stratigraphy palaeontology would lack a time reference - is a truism. Each, of course, elucidates the other. Not nearly so widely recognised, however, is the relationship of stratigraphy and palaeontology to other aspects of Earth history. Some of the essays in the book will interest biologists as well as geologists in the contribution that fossils make to understanding the problems of evolution, classification, functional morphology and ecology. The correlation of Australian Carboniferous, Permian, and Cretaceous rocks, generally valuable to stratigraphers and palaeontologists, is of particular importance for the economic exploitation of the rocks of the country. The biogeographic analysis of new palaeontological and stratigraphic data is pertinent for geophysicists, geologists, and geographers interested in the problem of continental drift; while by virtue of its geography and its geological record Australia must hold many of the keys for understanding southern hemisphere geology, and all Gondwana reconstructions will have to be checked against the detailed information now made available. Geologists, sedimentologists, and geomorphologists will find stimulating the discussions on the geomorphological development of south-east Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef. The broad scope of this book, offering as it does essays on many new discoveries and revaluations of past work, will be of considerable value to a wide range of scholars in many disciplines. As such, it is a fitting tribute to the woman it is designed to honour, Professor Dorothy Hill, F.R.S.
Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3715 1885_114981.jpg ANU Press Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Vance, Colin Francis
Dimensions of urban social structure: the social areas of Melbourne, Australia »
Publication date: 1969
The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census information, a gap remedied in 1961 by the provision of a new range of small area data. Here the author exploits the existence of the new information to present the first intensive social anatomy of any Australian metropolis. Statistics on the residential concentration and segregation of seventy socioeconomic, demographic, ethnic, and religious categories are examined, and the vast complexity and range of these data are reduced by sophisticated techniques of statistical analysis to three theoretically meaningful constructs - social rank, familism, and ethnicity. These constructs are used to develop a typology of social areas which serves as the basis for developing an understanding of, and further hypotheses about, urban social structure. Not only does this analysis present a self-contained study of Australia{u2019}s second largest metropolis, but detailed maps and statistical appendixes provide a benchmark for future social investigations into the urban scene - on subjects such as political preference, immigrant adjustment, poverty, crime, delinquency, and urban planning.
Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3065 1885_114979.jpg ANU Press Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Inall, E. K