In the harsh environment of Northern Australia cattle raising is the only industry that has survived in the hinterland for any length of time. It has faced many challenges - hostile terrain, drought, distance from markets, lack of manpower - and the vast areas catch the public imagination, attracting investors and pastoralists. What then are the prospects for the beef industry in the North? Given efficient managements - and many are not - and given constructive government policies - again, many are not - the prospects are good.

{u014C}kuma Shigenobu was one of the most outstanding statesmen in Japan in modern times. He was one of a small group of oligarchs who, through a series of remarkably successful reforms, helped guide Japan into the modern era, and was exceptional in that he consistently urged the adoption of British-style parliamentary government when his colleagues favoured a German model. {u014C}kuma founded Japan's second major political party and can be regarded as the country's first democrat, for he considered the role of public opinion vital to healthy government.

As a candidate for President, Jimmy Carter railed against the hypocrisy of America being 'the world's leading champion of peace' while exporting more arms than any other nation. Whether or not these claims were true, such rhetoric suggested that the future President was planning major reductions in American arms transfers. In May 1977, President Carter's Administration produced a policy document outlining the restraints on arms exports to be henceforth adopted.

This study seeks to shed light on one of the mysteries of modern Chinese history - that of the Karakhan Manifesto. This remarkable document - addressed to the Chinese by the Soviet Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in 1919 - pledged the new Soviet Government to restore to China the rights and privileges forcibly extracted by Tsarism. Shortly afterwards the Chinese were told that the text they had received, containing a promise to restore unconditionally to China the Chinese Eastern Railway and other Russian possessions in Manchuria, was not authentic and another version was forwarded.

Industrial Awakening is a remarkable story of the way manufacturing in a new and remote country pulled itself up by the bootstraps and became enmeshed in changing world commerce and technology. During the first hundred years of European settlement in Australia, a wide range of circumstances influenced the development and location of manufacturing.

In what the author describes as a preliminary excursion into Indian urban history, he writes here not about Indian cities in general but about the unique experience of a particular city, Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat State in western India and for many years the home of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel.

Papers presented at the Third Gondwana Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 1973

Japan's Liberal-Democratic Party has been continuously in power since it was formed in 1955. It has therefore been responsible for virtually all the important policy decisions made since that time in the name of the Japanese government, and it is likely to remain in this position of power for many years to come. The book focuses attention particularly on the processes involved in the formulation of controversial policies.