The great post-war immigration boom has affected Australian society in many ways. Little is known, however, about how New Australians have affected, and been affected by the Australian political system. This study, carried out in Brisbane, is concerned with the two largest groups of post-war immigrants, the British and Italian.

More than three thousand years ago incredibly skilled navigators from Southeast Asia began their voyages of discovery to the Polynesian Islands. Settling there, they developed a distinctive and complex culture. In the past two decades archaeologists and anthropologists have succeeded in reconstructing the course of those voyages and the emergence of a Polynesian culture. In this volume an outstanding group of scholars takes the story of Polynesia from its origins near the eastern tip of New Guinea to the first encounter with Europeans, just two hundred years ago.

In March 1871, in the aftermath of France's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the workers, radicals, and 'little people' of Paris rose in revolt. The rebels saw themselves as heirs to a great French revolutionary and Parisian tradition, carriers of the demand for popular initiative and popular participation. They were republican, anti-clerical, and, to a large extent, socialist. The Commune of Paris which they proclaimed on 26 March 1871 was dedicated to these principles and beliefs.

Here in one volume are collected the articles and documents produced during the first sixty-odd years of federation which most clearly illustrate the origins and development of Australian fiscal federalism.

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.

Industrial Labour and Politics is a new examination of some of the crucial questions of Australian labour politics - the relation of the industrial and political wings of the labour movement, the conflicts between Labor politicians and the extra-parliamentary organizations, and the part played by left-wing minorities in the movement.

This is the first study of the origin and evolution of the borders that Western powers have imposed upon New Guinea. Making extensive use of diplomatic correspondence, official documents, and Australian and Dutch patrol reports from the end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s, Dr van der Veur gives the reader an insight into what happens when diplomats and officials of different colonial administrations are faced with periodic crises over invisible boundaries.