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Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

The Flash of Recognition

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society

7 Myths about Women and Work

7 Myths about Women and Work

Catherine Fox

What Makes a Good School?

What Makes a Good School?

Jane Caro, Chris Bonnor

What Makes a Good School? will help you to cover all bases.

Australian Lithuanians

Luda Popenhagen

Close to the Edge

Sujatha Fernandes

The Australian Voter

Ian McAllister

Andrew Leigh

Disconnected Andrew Leigh guides us through the reasons that our social fabric has begun to fray, and outlines steps to creating a better civic and personal life.

Edited by Jon Altman, Melinda Hinkson

People Power: The history and the future of the referendum in Australia

People Power: The history and the future of the referendum in Australia

George Williams, David Hume

From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 1999, Australians have been cautious about constitutional change, approving only eight out of 44 referendum proposals in just over 100 years – a success rate of about 18%. People Power

Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

What Were They Thinking?

James Walter

What Were They Thinking? is a compelling story of winners and losers, of individuals interpreting and trying to influence their times, and of how ideas and power are linked.

Changing Stations

Bridget Griffen-Foley

Shortlisted for the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature

Connecting and Cooperating

Jenny M. Lewis

The Vulnerable Country

Tom Conley

The Vulnerable Country

Friday on Our Minds

Friday on Our Minds

Ethics in Practice

Andrew Alexandra, Seumas Miller

Dozens of times a day we are faced with moral dilemmas, and our judgments and actions are guided by our sense of what is right or wrong. But there are times when we find ourselves facing situations of moral complexity and uncertainty. Drawing on numerous case studies, Ethics in Practice

Bills of Rights in Australia

Andrew Byrnes, H Charlesworth, Gabrielle McKinnon

Bills of Rights in Australia , written by the leading experts in the field, examines the arguments for and against greater protection of human rights. Original and timely, it examines the emerging evidence of the impact of these uniquely Australian bills of rights.

9781921410185

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia

Tess Lea

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Destination Australia

Eric Richards

Renovation Nation

Fiona Allon

Renovation Nation

History's Children

Anna Clark

9780868408064

The Stupid Country: How Australia is dismantling public education

Chris Bonnor, Jane Caro

This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country THE STUPID COUNTRY

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

Island Ministers

Raeburn Lange

Activist Wisdom

Sarah Maddison, Sean Scalmer

Hugh Stretton

Genre, text, grammar

Peter Knapp, Megan Watkins

Ancient and Modern

Stephen Muecke

Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places

Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson

Beyond the Great Divide

Judith Gill

Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838