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Moscow trefoil: and other versions of poems from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2743 1885_115144.jpg ANU Press Moscow trefoil: and other versions of poems from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam Monday, 18 August, 1975 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
The Strategic nuclear balance: an Australian perspective: papers from a conference held by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra, 1974 »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3185 1885_114889.jpg ANU Press The Strategic nuclear balance: an Australian perspective: papers from a conference held by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra,
A history of contract at common law »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3181 1885_114798.jpg ANU Press A history of contract at common law Monday, 18 August, 1975 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Stoljar, S. J
Look forward, not back: aborigines in metropolitan Brisbane, 1965-1966 »
Publication date: 1975
Aborigines who come to Brisbane from settlements and small country towns face all the problems of rapid urbanisation - housing, employment, education, morale. They have had some previous experience of white Australian society, but little of the social institutions that white Australians take for granted. In Brisbane, these social institutions and their agencies are available, yet Aborigines do not take advantage of them, partly because of their past lack of experience and partly because they do not always see such institutions as compatible with their life styles. The authors of this book believe that Aborigines can and will determine their own futures. They argue that white Australia must encourage the Aborigines to use existing social institutions and, if these are unsuitable, create new ones that will help Aboriginal Australians to a satisfying life. In redressing thus the neglect and indifference of the past, Australia might approach a multi-racial society rich in diversity.
Greeks in Australia »
Publication date: 1975
The second largest migrant group in Australia is made up of some 300,000 people who regard themselves as Greek. Not all were born in Greece - some come from ancient Greek communities in Russia, Africa and the Middle East, some were born in Australia. What they have in common is their feeling of Greekness, their loyalty to their origins, their deep concern with family ties and values. They resist marriage with non-Greeks, adhere to the Greek Orthodox religion and stubbornly preserve the Greek language and culture. This book provides an introduction to the nature and purpose of Greek societies and organisations, and explains how Greeks relate to other Greeks in Australia and to Australian people and institutions. In identifying areas where Greeks have succeeded or failed in Australia, it also shows where Australia has succeeded and failed in its dealings with them and with other migrant groups.
Ancient Tahitian society »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3289 1885_114907.jpg ANU Press Ancient Tahitian society Monday, 18 August, 1975 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Oliver, Douglas L
Bloody Buna: the campaign that halted the Japanese invasion of Australia, maps drawn by A.S. Hardyman »
Publication date: 1975
In 1942 the Australian 16th and 25th AIF Brigades, supported by militiamen of the 3rd Battalion, forced the Japanese back over the KokodaTrail and into a narrow strip in the Buna-Gona-Sanananda area along the northern New Guinea coast. It was decided the Australians would clear the Gona-Sanananda area; the Americans would attack Buna. The inexperienced 32nd U.S. Infantry Division gathered south of Buna, and on 19 November 1942 the confident main American assault began. The veteran Japanese jungle fighters, recently reinforced, were ready. They had constructed an elaborate defensive system of dirtcovered coconut-log bunkers; swamps; flooded rivers, rain, mud and the kunai hampered the Americans; thickly-foliaged trees made air strikes nearly impossible, and faulty intelligence reports gave a totally inaccurate assessment of the Japanese strength. By December the attack on Buna had halted. Poorly trained and equipped, discipline gone, hungry, dirty and ill, the Americans were reluctant to move. Lieutenant-General Eichelberger, sent in by the impatient Supreme Commander, General MacArthur, ordered a major reorganisation, and new attacks were mounted. But the bloody Buna battle again ground to a stalemate. Australia's 18th Brigade and other troops, equipped with long overdue tanks and artillery, joined in whilst other Australian forces pressed on with their task at Gona-Sanananda. The Japanese fought with fanatical resolve but the weight of the Australian-American attacks finally told, and on 2 January 1943 the Americans took Buna government station to end one of the most desperate campaigns of the entire Pacific war. In Bloody Buna senior U.S. Army historian Lida Mayo describes the affair in authentic and gripping detail. Her narrative is sharpened with interviews and private accounts, and she leaves no doubts about the crushing mental pressures, physical ordeals, brutalities, and macabre horrors of the struggle. Nor does she fail to analyse the problems created by the remoteness of higher command from the scene of action.
The classification of Australian local authorities »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2939 1885_114792.jpg ANU Press The classification of Australian local authorities Monday, 18 August, 1975 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Harris, C. P.
Building a terrace »
Publication date: 1975
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3469 1885_114713.jpg ANU Press Building a terrace Monday, 18 August, 1975 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Brissenden, R. F
Constitutional responsibility for education in Australia »
Publication date: 1975
The Australian Constitution makes no reference to education as one of the responsibilities transferred by the states to the central government. Yet the Australian Government is very much involved, both in financing education in the states and also in its future development. Is the Australian Government usurping states{u2019} rights? This book examines the development of central government involvement in education, and its justification, in particular the {u2018}benefits to students{u2019} clause in the 1946 social services amendment to the Constitution. Leading court cases concerning these powers, decided in the High Court of Australia, suggest that the central government does have authority for its actions. Clearly, the book is of fundamental importance for educationists, states-righters, and lawyers, amongst others, and its implications are far reaching.