This Companion describes ten car tours within an easy drive from Canberra, taking in places of historical interest and scenic beauty. Clear directions are given for each tour, together with descriptions and anecdotes about the places to visit en route, and a useful map adds to the ease of finding the way. This book is for residents of Canberra who would like to see some of the region{u2019}s attractions and for the tourist who is tired of gazing at the modern buildings of the twentieth century and would like some time in the country.

The sixty-one embassies in Canberra are the national and cultural showplaces of each country represented in the federal capital. They are richly varied in their architecture: traditional Thai, colonial American, simply French and strikingly New Zealand. Many of these embassies, and seventeen in detail, are described and pictured in this book, which gives their locations and a useful map to help the reader find them.

For more than half a century the Country Party in Australia has defied predictions that it would collapse or wither away, fates suggested by its small parliamentary numbers and the narrow basis of its electoral support. This book is a study of the anatomy of an unusual political party. Professor Aitkin pursues the twin themes of ideology and organisation to find out to what extent the Country Party owes its survival to the ideas and philosophy it espouses and to the nature of the organisation it has constructed for itself.

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.

The aim of this book is to bring together and summarise our present knowledge of the soils of Papua New Guinea. Although much of it is based on data collected during CSIRO's land resource surveys, the book also attempts to incorporate the widely scattered and relatively inaccessible information gathered by other researchers. The US Department of Agriculture's soil taxonomy classification has been used, since it is now internationally widely accepted and makes the data accessible to scientists working in other parts of the tropics.

Dorothy Auchterlonie, in ordinary life Mrs Dorothy Green, was born in Sunderland, England and educated partly in that country and partly in Australia, at the University of Sydney, where she distinguished herself in English and in Oriental History. For some years she was a reader and journalist and news editor with the News Service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. After her marriage to H. M.

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.