This textbook explores the theory and practice of policy-making and how good analysis and advice add value to public decisions and decision-makers. The authors discuss the roles of advisors and analysts both within and across jurisdictions...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:271
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Bridget Griffen-Foley
ISBN:9780868409184
Immediate, intimate, portable and inexpensive, radio is the most pervasive medium in Australia. Changing Stations is the first full-scale, national history of commercial radio in Australia...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:530
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Lewis Jenny M
ISBN:9781921410130
Jenny M. Lewis establishes a set of parameters for social capital that help us examine how policy can increase cooperation between organisations and individuals...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:232
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Cunningham D
ISBN:9780868403977
Provides an introduction to the shape and style of Australian television in the 1980s, 1990s and beyond. Traditional formats like news, current affairs and sport as well as newer genres like tabloid and reality TV are treated in detail. The authors use their expertise in cultural and media studies to take apart the medium in terms of text...more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Altman Jon
ISBN:9781742232256
In 2007 the Australian Government recognised that the health, safety and education of the nations remote Aboriginal citizens were in a state of crisis. Its response was what became known as the Northern Territory Intervention...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Maria Hill
ISBN:9781742230146
QLD Premier's Book Awards Shortlisted History Book Award
Little is known about the real reasons that Australia committed troops to Greece. Australian historians have...more details Format:Hardback Pages:479
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Rob Brander
ISBN:9781742230979
Many of us live near the beach, and many more visit the beach on holidays. But just how much do we understand about the beach and its potential hazards? The types of waves and the way they break...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:238
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Witcomb Andrea
ISBN:9781921410246
Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the National Trust in Western Australia, this beautifully designed book contains never-before-published images and draws from a new oral history archive with testimonies from many of the founders...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Neil Black
ISBN:9781742230825
For 25 years, Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf has been a core text for horticulture students and an essential reference for horticulturalists...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:544
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Jun Jing
ISBN:9781742231693
When Chinas first HIV-positive patient was reported in 1985, among those initially infected were peasants who had sold their plasma to international companies. Then it became clear that sex workers and injecting drug users were also becoming infected...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Cooper Anthony
ISBN:9781742231181
In June 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea and the Korean War began. During the three-year conflict, HMAS Bataan, a Royal Australian Navy Tribal-Class destroyer...more details Format:Hardback Pages:295
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New T
ISBN:9780868401416
Insects are the most diverse and populous group of animals on earth. In this volume the reader is introduced to the formal study of insects. This book considers the characteristics of the Australian insect fauna in the context of a broad-based account of insect structure...more details Format:Paperback Pages:284
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Curthoys Ann
ISBN:9781742231716
The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:340
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Collins Paul
ISBN:9781742231563
Global warming is now a reality that looms over us, and ecological devastation continues apace. Now, more than ever, there is clear recognition that we face a crisis. But who is to blame for this crisis? In this bold...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Gleeson Brendan
ISBN:9781742231242
Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same but on a greater, even more frightening scale. Hopeful and provocative...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:206
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Tredinnick Mark
ISBN:9781742230061
The Little Black Book of Business Writing is for everyone who writes for business purposes, in the commercial world, the private sector, the trades and the professions. Mark Tredinnick and Geoff Whyte help readers write the kinds of documents that confront them most days at work letters...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Crystal David
ISBN:9781742231976
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed
more relevant. In this charming volume...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Tham Joo-Cheong
ISBN:9781921410093
Money plays a controversial role in Australian politics. Political donations may spark claims of secret contributions and corruption. Do corporations or trade unions have undue infl uence over political parties by way of donations? Meanwhile...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Davey Paul
ISBN:9781742231662
The Nationals, originally the Australian Country Party, is the second oldest political party in Australia. It has survived for 90 years and never been unrepresented in the Commonwealth parliament...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
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WILLIAMS GEORGE
ISBN:9781742232157
From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 1999, Australians have been cautious about constitutional change...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:303
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Wanna John
ISBN:9781921410727
Modern governments have undergone significant change over the past 30 years. Such change has impacted on the way governments structure their organisations...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Irving Terry
ISBN:9781742230931
Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the citys rulers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Markwell Kevin
ISBN:9781742232324
Before Steve Irwin, Alby Mangels, the Leyland Brothers and Harry Butler there was Eric Worrell. This book traces the life and times of Worrell...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Val Attenbrow
ISBN:9781742231167
This second edition of Sydneys Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:226
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Mark McCrindle
ISBN:9781742230351
The ABC of XYZ is designed for educators, business managers and parents who want a brief and useful introduction to Australias living generations and how they interact. It begins by exploring what a generation is...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:237
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Bean C E W
ISBN:9781742231341
Few books have ever been produced under such harsh conditions as The Anzac Book. Created by soldiers under enemy fire and in extreme hardship...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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Ann Millar
ISBN:9780868409962
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate is an authoritative work of reference on the lives and careers of senators of the Federal Parliament...more details Format:Hardback Pages:608
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Ruth Colman
ISBN:9781742231280
Not sure when you should start a new sentence? Or whether a comma should go before or after a word? Or if you should use an apostrophe or not? Ruth Colman strips out all the jargon to make understanding punctuation easy...more details Format:Spiralbound Pages:72
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Davidson Jim
ISBN:9781742231266
While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as Australias most distinguished historian, he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian and few elsewhere can match his span...more details Format:Hardback Pages:608
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Lee Robert
ISBN:9781742232133
Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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James Walter
ISBN:9780868409719
Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by distinctive patterns of political thought from the colonial period to the Rudd government...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Murray Georgina
ISBN:9781742232218
Think coal mining, and most likely you think men. This book tells a very different story. Women have long been the backbone of the coal mining industry. As wives and mothers theyve fought battles for better working conditions; established womens auxiliaries; distributed food to strikers and their families...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Jordan Seth
ISBN:9781742231143
From its early beginnings in the 1980s, the vibrant world music genre in Australia has burgeoned to become the dynamic scene it is today. World Music charts this evolution...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Leigh Andrew
ISBN:9781742231532
In this forensic examination of how we live, Andrew Leigh, one of our most exciting young thinkers, rips though Australian life and asks whether we are tightly-knit and looking out for each other...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:199