This book makes available, for the Commonwealth of Australia, detailed election results from which Commonwealth sections of the Handbook of Australian Government and Politics (ANU Press, Canberra, 1968) were compiled. For 1919 and subsequent years it gives the official result for each candidate, together with his party affiliation and the percentage of the total vote he received. After 1922 it also gives the distribution of preferential votes.

This is the first full study of British reactions to the major civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion which ravaged China in the midnineteenth century. The main emphasis is upon government policy towards the rebellion over the whole period in which it was active, but there are also chapters dealing with the views of merchants, missionaries and the public at large. As well as filling in a vital chapter in the history of Sino-Western relations the book provides a case study of the process of policy making in an important area of 'informal' empire.

This monograph provides a statistical comparison of the levels of real product and income in Australia and the United Kingdom. As well as overall totals, details are given of the expenditure and relative prices of individual goods and services comprising national product. These estimates provide much of the information needed to compare the levels of living standards and industrial production in the two countries, and therefore enable these aspects of Australian economic conditions to be placed in international perspective.

Despite much recent revisionist analysis of the traditional stereotypes of Victorian women, the downtrodden and helpless {u2018}distressed gentlewoman{u2019} has survived or evaded historical scrutiny. This book examines the distressed gentle woman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914.

Before the Australian federal election of 1963 the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, announced that he would deliver his policy speech over nation-wide television. Instead of his usual mixed audience of supporters and hecklers he would have in front of him only a selection of Liberal Party members, and would himself be quite unaware of the immediate impact of the speech. This method of presenting policy had never before been used in Australia. This is a study of about 250 Canberra voters who viewed the policy speech.