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In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. Taking us deep into both the man and the culture Menzie represented and well beyond the restraints of conventional biography, this work reveals the ambivalence that lay at the heart of the Australian self-image.

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A celebration of the love that developed between a dog and his human friend.

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Traces the development of the Anzac cult, as well as looking at those who rejected it. This title also examines a paradox: why, as Australia's wars recede in memory, have these memorials and what they stand for become cherished more than ever

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This work describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australian's enjoyment of sand and surf. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance.

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B.A. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. An ardent anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was polarising, fiercely intelligent and a natural leader. This is an authoritative biography from Gerard Henderson, a close colleague until a disagreement saw the two men estranged.

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Examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature, the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle powers could take two forms: functional or normative.

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Birds provide humans not only with enormous aesthetic pleasure, they also inform us of our ever-changing situation in this complex and unpredictable world. Free flying birds sample the atmosphere, the oceans, the plants, the forests and insect populations, signalling toxic and environmental dangers that threaten all vertebrate species.

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The history of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne is the history of women in the age of modern medicine. It is a story that begins in the dawn of anaesthesia, before the revolutions brought about by aspesis, antisepsis and antibiotics, concluding in our own time with AIDS and IVF. This is both a social and medical history.

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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australias past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.

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A study of Australian cinema exploring the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. It focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (Hall, 1933) and ""Bitter Springs"" (Smart, 1950).

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The inside story of the Rudd government's first term in office. It is a tenure that will be forever defined by the global financial crisis, or - to use the Prime Minster's term - the 'shitstorm' that engulfed the nation and the world. Taylor and Uren uncover the challenges Kevin Rudd and his team faced.

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A wonderfully evocative account of youth. At age seven, after her parents' marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters from Adelaide to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. So This Is Life is not a conventional memoir but a haunting and luminous account told through stories.

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These beautifully written recollections paint an evocative picture of middle-class life in Melbourne in the eary years of the twentieth century. The awakening of Fitzpatrick's feminist consciousness, her discovery at the University of Melbourne of her true vocation as a historian, and her unhappy years at Oxford are the major themes.

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This work introduces the concepts of representation that lie at the heart of representative democracy. It explores the ways in which Australians have thought about and practised representation, and includes analysis of non-parliamentary institutions of representation.

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In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer.

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The United States has always exerted a strong, if intermittent, influence on the conduct of Australian politics. Stepping Up to the Plate argues that Australia has experimented with an alternating party system more authentic than the American two-party system and more connected with the people. It mounts a defence of Australian democracy as we have known it.

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A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high-altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest - twice. Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account of his death-defying ascents and explains his passion for climbing in small teams, or solo, without Sherpas or bottled oxygen.

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A novel of war, survival and love, Sunflower proves the redemptive power of hope in the hideousness of battle. George Bingham leaves his small country town at the outbreak of WW1 and endures the horrors of Gallipolli and the Somme before meeting a French nurse who heals his wounds and teaches him to dream again.

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Introducing readers to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers, this book reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in life.

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David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.