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Access to privilege: patterns of participation in Australian post-secondary education »
Publication date: 1983
The main question addressed in this book is whether the social composition of higher education has changed since the 1930s and 1940s. Since that time there has been a tremendous expansion in higher education and policies have been developed aimed at increasing participation by the poor. The answer to the question appears to be that the social profile of higher education is remarkably constant over time; the authors point out, however, that the abolition of tuition fees after 1974 and the introduction of student allowances probably helped counter a regression to a more elite composition caused by the withdrawal of other assistance, particularly education studentships. Nevertheless the authors conclude that access to higher education remains mainly limited to the privileged.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 6 »
Publication date: 1982
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publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law,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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Population resettlement programs in Southeast Asia »
Publication date: 1982
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The Premiers' Conference 1905: report of proceedings »
Publication date: 1982
This book includes a facsmile copy of The Premiers' Conference 1905: Report of Proceedings and an Introduction by Professor P.D. Groenewegen describing and evaluating the contents of the report.
Service delivery to outstations »
Publication date: 1982
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Poetry of the Stewart court »
Publication date: 1982
The intention of this anthology is to present a full and evenly balanced selection of the poetry of the Stewart court, making available much that has been unfairly neglected but allowing poems which have often been abstracted from their context by modern anthologists to be read in their proper setting. The book is in two parts. First is a commentary of nine chapters describing the Bannatyne Manuscript, a large collection of Scottish poetry compiled in Edinburgh in 1568. The commentary seeks to establish the importance of the Manuscript as a comprehensive and deliberately interpretative anthology of medieval and renaissance Scottish poetry, arguing that modern editors are too frequently guided by their own critical preoccupations and that George Bannatyne chose and arranged his anthology in such a way as to present a conspectus of the five medieval and renaissance uses of poetry. The second part of the book is an anthology of some 17,000 lines of poetry chosen from the Bannatyne Manuscript. It retains Bannatyne's arrangement into five parts and, within those parts, his order. Many of the poems are of the highest quality by any criteria ofjudgment, but the selection has not been made at the expense of poems which were clearly more highly valued by Bannatyne than they would be now.
Karo: the life and fate of a Papuan »
Publication date: 1982
This is a book about a murder. A book about prison, about the clash of cultures and about wild men. Karo was a wild man and a clever one and this book is an attempt to trace his life. It is the history of a Papuan man born in the early part of the twentieth century and follows the path that led him to the most horrible murders and finally to the gallows. An attempt also to understand why he had another, legendary life beyond the gallows. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. It was part of her interest in the colonial condition, which was stimulated when she read of the way the lives of those in gaol can throw a great deal of light on the lowly who are also illiterate. Particularly was this the case in colonial Papua where those who landed in gaol were likely to be a cross section of those villagers who came in contact with the white man's law, most of which they did not understand. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people.
Adelaide Aborigines: a case study of urban life, 1966-1981 »
Publication date: 1982
This monograph describes the economic position of Aborigines living in an urban setting. Aborigines form a very small minority in Adelaide, a city of some one million inhabitants. The present social and economic situation of Adelaide Aborigines is compared with studies made in 1966 and 1973 and with the non-Aboriginal population. With a deteriorating economic climate in the city, especially as regards employment, Aborigines have bad difficulty in maintaining the advantage they acquired by migrating to the city in earlier decades. In contrast to the situation of the 1960s they do not now appear to be better off economically than their rural counterparts. City people have developed various strategies to prevent them slipping even further down the poverty scale. The special Aboriginal services, especially in areas such as housing, have been important in preventing them from losing ground in economic terms. Their extremely high rates of unemployment are evidence of their social disadvantages as a minority group.
Czech writers and politics 1945-1969 »
Publication date: 1982
"It is easy to oversimplify the social role of writers. At times they make the bullets to be fired by others: at other times they fire bullets made for them: some times they are the target." The book considers the role of Czech writers in the period 1945-69, in particular how far their work was influenced by politics and to what extent they influenced it. A closely documented study of the social, economic, and political scene accompanies the literary study.
State-municipal fiscal relations: a comparative study of Australia and India »
Publication date: 1982
This is a comparative study of State-municipal fiscal relations, with particular reference to New South Wales in Australia and West Bengal in India. After outlining the broad structural features of municipal authorities and the framework of State- municipal transfer arrangements, the study con centrates on the operative aspects of intergovern mental fiscal relations in a sub-national context. The results of the study indicate commonalities as well as differences in the transfer arrangements, including the role of federal institutions in financing municipal government.