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Governor in New Guinea »
Publication date: 1980
Dr Albert Hahl first sailed to German New Guinea in 1896 and took up residence in Herbertshohe, a primitive little settlement on Blanche Bay dominated by autocratic planters and merchants. Later he served as Governor in various posts in the Protectorate, including eighteen months as Vice- Governor on the turbulent island of Ponape. After eleven years as Governor of the whole Protectorate, he finally sailed from Rabaul for good in 1914, a few months before World War I ended German rule in the Western Pacific. Hahl's career spanned almost the whole of the period of effective administration by the Reich of German New Guinea, and the 'system' undoubtedly bore his stamp. There was the organisation of the natives under luluai or official chiefs, each with a special cap and staff as insignia of Imperial office. There was too the quaint shipping service round the Gazelle Peninsula provided by the tugboat Roland and its attendant barges. Hahl claimed these and other institutions as his brain-children. He is still recalled as 'Dotal', a fatherly figure, by the old people of the Gazelle Peninsula, and like Sir Hubert Murray he has been seen as the personification of the colony over which he presided. New light is shed on his role by these mellow reminiscences, first published in Germany in 1937, but remarkably free of either bitterness or the ideological claptrap usual in works of that vintage. The introduction by Peter Sack to this edition in English suggests a number of new points of approach to Hahl's career, and includes a biographical sketch. The translation by Dymphna Clark of the original text is supplemented by maps, contemporary photographs and a list of Hahl's publications.
The whale in darkness »
Publication date: 1980
This collection of recent poetry by R. F. Brissenden confirms him as one of the foremost Australian poets of his generation. The poems are strikingly and unmistakably Australian, yet their mood is never parochial. It is a compelling and haunting collection, put together with an assured and accurate hand.
Biographical register of the Tasmanian Parliament, 1851-1960 »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2797 1885_115048.jpg ANU Press Biographical register of the Tasmanian Parliament, 1851-1960 Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Bennett, Scott Cecil
On economic knowledge: a sceptical miscellany »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2905 1885_114684.jpg ANU Press On economic knowledge: a sceptical miscellany Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Bensusan-Butt, D. M.
Churchill Fellows of Australia 1966-1977 »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2895 1885_115154.jpg ANU Press Churchill Fellows of Australia 1966-1977 Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Auchmuty, Margaret Walters
Schools to grow in: an evaluation of secondary colleges »
Publication date: 1980
Following a public inquiry and evidence of widespread student disaffection with schooling, the traditional 6-year secondary schools in the Australian Capital Territory were replaced with 4-year high schools and secondary colleges for students in the two senior years. The new colleges offer a wide curriculum, give students freedom and responsibility to manage their own affairs, and generally try to provide a learning environment in which the emphasis is on cooperation rather than coercion. This study, which is based on parallel surveys of student opinions in 1972 and 1979, explores the shifts that have occured in student attitudes since the change to the college system. It examines what the change has meant for the students themselves, in matters such as opinions on the structure of school, attitudes to authority, relationships with teachers, study interests and post-school plans, and evaluates the colleges from their point of view. Using a theoretical perspective which relates a view of adolescence to the social relationships between students and teachers, it is argued that because of the narrow age range of their students the colleges are able to avoid the traditional reliance on student submission to teacher authority and so minimise student alienation. The findings leave no doubt that the secondary college innovation is of the greatest importance for efforts to make appropriate provision for senior secondary students, and this study will be acutely relevant wherever that is a matter of concern.
Transition from school: an annotated bibliography of recent Australian studies »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2833 1885_115165.jpg ANU Press Transition from school: an annotated bibliography of recent Australian studies Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Anderson, Don
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 3 »
Publication date: 1979
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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German New Guinea: the annual reports »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3999 ANU_Press_German_NG_Annual_Reports.jpg ANU Press German New Guinea: the annual reports Monday, 1 October, 1979 Not available http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131772 Scholarly Information Services Sack, Peter & G Clark, Dymphna
Moral claims in world affairs »
Publication date: 1979
Establishing national needs and the policies that flow from them as not only contingent or expedient, but also 'right' and 'due' is meant to lend them a special and pervasive force, and practitioners of world affairs are prone to invest even their most commonplace behaviour with a sense of moral sanctity. This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular. Detailed discussions are presented of the attempts to rescue a single body of human ideals from the multitude of systems that presently prevail, of the group, rather than universal basis of human morality, of the perennial tension between 'realism' and 'idealism', of human rights, justice and evil in the politics of the Powers. The racial conflict in Southern Africa and the moral precepts that inform the foreign policies of China and the Soviet Union are also surveyed. Here moral claims are considered in situ, as they emerge from specific political situations and are coloured by specific ideological perspectives. Although moral discourse is an integral part of any political enterprise, the question of 'morality' in international affairs is a curiously neglected one. This book seeks explicitly to confront our competing ideas of how the world is and how we would like it to be.