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Graeme Smith »
Graeme Smith is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. His academic background is in Chinese politics, as one of few Western scholars to have worked within local government in China. He has won best article prizes by China Quarterly and The Journal of Pacific History, and co-hosts the award-winning Little Red Podcast with former NPR and BBC China correspondent Louisa Lim.
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More Pacific Islands portraits »
Publication date: 2025
This book, a worthy successor to the first Pacific Islands Portraits edited by the late W. Davidson and Deryck Scarr, tells the stories of more of the colourful characters. Islanders and expatriates, who lived in the Pacific islands during the past 150 years. This collection of thirteen essays deals with people with such differing views as Charles Saint Julian, the visionary who drew up constitutions through which he hoped island communities would become what the western world would consider civilised states; Apolosi R. Nawai, a messianic leader in Fiji who challenged established authority; C. M. Woodford, the naturalist who came to study nature hut finished as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate; Henry Nanpei who manipulated successive European overlords. These and others come to life in the pages of this book. There is much here for the Pacific historian hut others also will find entertainment and food for thought in these accounts.
A bibliography of the First Fleet »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2831 1885_114723.jpg ANU Press A bibliography of the First Fleet Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Crittenden, Victor
Oil search in Australia »
Publication date: 2025
Written primarily for the layman, this book is an account of the history, development and current activities in the search for oil in Australia. It outlines the geological factors controlling the generation of oil and natural gas in sedimentary basins and surveys the petroleum potential of onshore and offshore regions. Geological, technological and economic factors are defined and the present and possible future production of crude oil and natural gas in Australia are discussed. Mention is also made of the potential production of synthetic oil from oil shale and coal. This is an authoritative reference work which explains in simple terms the scientific, technological and economic aspects of the search for oil in Australia.
A handbook of Australian government and politics »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3063 1885_114739.jpg ANU Press A handbook of Australian government and politics Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Hughes, Colin A
The majesty of colour: a life of Sir John Bates Thurston »
Publication date: 2025
John Bates Thurston began life, he said, aboard a barque bound for India - as a 13-year-old apprentice in love with the sea. Some years later, marooned in the South Seas after a shipwreck, he elected to stay on in Fiji. From being Acting British Consul and cotton planter he rose to be Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the office he held up to his death in 1897. Dr Scarr has delved into diaries, private letters, official correspondence and newspapers to reconstruct the colourful life story of Thurston, one of the most personally compelling and historically significant figures in modern Pacific history. He succeeds in presenting him as utterly honest and forthright, touchy and arrogant, a man often between anger and laughter - above all, completely devoted to his adopted country and its people. At the same time he conveys something of the spell that Fiji cast over Thurston when he first went to the Pacific and which remained with him always. In this book, the first part of a 2-volume work, Thurston is at odds with his own emigrant society and its racist views. But as intimate and supporter of the chiefs he is, to the Fijian elite, Na Kena Vai - the Very Bayonet, or, by free translation, the Pilot Fish. The second volume of the biography, Viceroy of the Pacific, will be concerned with Thurston as architect of policy after the Cession of Fiji to Britain in 1874, and with his role as Governor and High Commissioner. I, the Very Bayonet will not only be valued highly by historians but also read with pleasure and probe by all lovers of the Pacific and of good biography.
A biographical register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3179 1885_115126.jpg ANU Press A biographical register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Rydon, Joan
The Pacific since Magellan »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3229 1885_115092.jpg ANU Press The Pacific since Magellan Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Spate, O. H. K.
Strive to be fair: an unfinished autobiography »
Publication date: 2025
In his unfinished autobiography Don Whitington looks back wryly and unsentimentally on his family, his youth, and his profession. Born in Victoria of incompatible parents, who separated, he grew up in some hardship, in Tasmania. Poverty - and lack of application - cut his education short and he qualified as a woolclasser in time to lose his job in the Depression. He worked then asa jackaroo, travelling extensively in outback Australia - and finally, with {u00A3}5 in his pocket, he decided to become a journalist, thus unwittingly following in the footsteps of three generations of Whitingtons. The story of his youth is told with a lively humour that laughs at himself and laughs with others. Whitington brought to his profession a sense of justice and compassion, a keen sense of humour and an eye for the ridiculous. One of the longest serving members of the Canberra Press Gallery, he met and mixed with people from all walks of life, with politicians and journalists of all persuasions and abilities. His comments on some of the events and personalities of his times are candid, and pointed. This book is a lively, racy, informed and enjoyable story of a man who graced his profession.