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Current constitutional problems in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
This book examines current issues of constitutional law in Australia from the perspective of a group of Commonwealth and State Solicitors-General and academic lawyers. The topics covered include : the nature of appropriation (including the Commonwealth spending power); excise duty; section 92; Commonwealth prerogative powers; industrial powers; and the Imperial connection.
26th Congress of the CPSU in current political perspective »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3081 1885_115182.jpg ANU Press 26th Congress of the CPSU in current political perspective Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Miller, Robert F.
The tragical history of Doctor Faustus »
Publication date: 1982
This book is the result of a life-long ambition of the author's to present a version of Marlowe's famous play Dr Faustus which has come down to us in a badly mutilated form. Marlowe died shortly after it was written and successive producers replaced much of his text with scenes of knock-about farce. Enough indications of the original form of the play remain, in the opinion of A. D. Hope, to enable a tentative restoration. He does not claim, of course, to have restored Marlowe{u2019}s original text, but to have produced a possible picture of what the missing scenes may have been like, using his own instincts and habits as a poet but aiming at something like Marlowe's own manner and the usage of Elizabethan English and stage-craft.
Cinderellas of the empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu »
Publication date: 1982
Barrie Macdonald graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967 and completed his PhD in 1971 at the Australian National University. Cinderellas of the the Empire was written at Massey University, New Zealand, where the author is Senior Lecturer in History, and at the Australian National University where he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific and South East Asian History. As can be seen from his book, Barrie Macdonald was granted special access to government archives and made discriminating use of these archives, in addition to his use of missionary sources and other private papers. A decade of fieldwork and interviews with leading political figures give flesh to his impeccable use of the written sources. Barrie Macdonald is currently working on a general book on colonialism, decolonisation and development in Oceania.
Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier 1861-1897 »
Publication date: 1982
North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did {u2018}invasion{u2019} begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity. This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearlshell and beche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority. This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed.
Investigations into the authenticity of the Chang San-feng ch'uan-chi, the complete works of Chang San-feng »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2997 1885_114906.jpg ANU Press Investigations into the authenticity of the Chang San-feng ch'uan-chi, the complete works of Chang San-feng Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Huang, Zhaohan
Annals of Tai: early T'o-pa history according to the first chapter of the Wei-shu »
Publication date: 1982
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3499 1885_115004.jpg ANU Press Annals of Tai: early T'o-pa history according to the first chapter of the Wei-shu Wednesday, 18 August, 1982 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Holmgren, Jennifer
The time of darkness: local legends and volcanic reality in Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1982
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea there exist widespread legends concerning a 'Time of Darkness' in which there was no light and ash fell from the skies. The author investigates these legends and, in conjunction with measurement and analysis of the ash, which covers a large area of the highlands, determines that 300 years ago there was a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on Long Island and that the legends are essentially accurate accounts of this gigantic upheaval that is unrecorded in any written records. There are several unique elements in this book. First, a relatively recent volcanic eruption of very large magnitude is identified. Second this event is shown to have initiated a widespread legend varying from place to place only in detail, and spreading across a number of cultural groups. Third the accuracy of the legends is demonstrated by comparison with known volcanic eruptions. The study shows that legends from an area of almost 100,000 km2 and including more than thirty language groups have survived as essentially accurate accounts for about 300 years. This book will have particular appeal to volcanologists and oral historians and a general appeal to readers with an interest in natural hazards.
Stability and change in Australian politics »
Publication date: 1982
The first edition of Stability and Change in Australian Politics was a landmark in the serious study of Australian politics. In this second edition Professor Aitkin assembles the results of a new survey carried out in 1979 which sought to discover what had been the effects of the Whitlam years and their aftermath on the political behaviour of Australians. The second, expanded, edition, in which seven new chapters deal with a survey taken in 1979, will remain a basic hand book of Australian politics for years to come.
Social welfare finance: selected papers »
Publication date: 1982
This volume is a collaboration between public servants and academics to analyze problems in the welfare sector, which now occupies half of all Australian governmental expenditure. Four of its chapters deal with social security, two with health, two with housing, and two are special essays in social administration. Together they lift discussion of the Australian welfare state above its previous often polemical and uninformed level towards a more dispassionate and informative plane, technical but lucid. The social security chapters cover redistributive problems; social security inside the family; the surprisingly complex relationship between social security and income taxation; and an updating of the Henderson guaranteed minimum income proposals. The health chapters place Australian expenditure in a federal and an international framework. The housing chapters deal with aspects of the public housing program. The final chapters deal with long service leave and with evaluation in the health sphere.