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The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history. This book examines the place of school history in these disputes over the past, and suggests their partisan historical divide is complicated in the schools arena, where debate has been increasingly contested over 'our children', the nation's future.

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Brings together a major essay on Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and several significant studies of particular aspects of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister's long career. This work also includes an analyses of the development of historical research in Australia.

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A decade after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the country continues to face a growing insurgency and crises of governance. The Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role tackles a number of critical dimensions--politics, society, military, and reconstruction--of this conflict from a range of perspectives.

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Brings together some of Australias foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australias shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It traces the evolution of several of the key arms of the Australian Imperial Force, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together.

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Collects some of the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare.

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Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. This anthology collects the best examples of this genre, with stories by Ernest Favenc, Louis Becke, Rosa Praed, Guy Boothby, and many others.

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The best examples of colonial Australian romance are collected in this anthology, from writers such as Ada Cambridge, Rosa Praed, Francis Adams, Henry Lawson. They show colonial women challenged by a new life in a new place. But they show men being put to the test, too, and sometimes failing in the quest for love in a brave new world.

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From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling several autocratic regimes that had held power for decades and ushering in a new climate of dissent and democratisation. This book seizes a unique opportunity to reflect on these seismic events, Deakin Authors

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An important book which contributes the dispassionate, independent and objective comment that has been missing from media debate on the effects of our immigration policies. It provides a wealth of data on the make-up of Australia's immigrant intake and the ability of immigrants to establish a place in their new country.

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Examines the Australian people, holidays, domestic violence, heroes and the response to international crises and natural elements, over the first 100 years.

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What do we really know about the Greens in Australia Is the party really just an extension of the environment movement, or has it matured to a professional party, capable of taking on the big boys This book represents an important effort to come to grips with this question, by talking to the people who make the party tick.

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In this powerful meditation on the need for institutional diversity, Glyn Davis argues that experimentation, innovation and resilience are the only way the public university will endure.

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When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love - with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better.

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Examines the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some of the planet's most repressive governments, including in countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Egypt and Syria. This book discovers the ways that Western multinationals are assisting the restriction of information in these countries.

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In his humorous, elegantly written romp through the history of philosophy, Simon Critchley starts with the premise that philosophers' deaths are as interesting as their lives. Through his catalogue of philosophers' demises (tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder) he confronts the themes: how to die well and live without delusion.

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During the 1840s, in the fledgling settlement of Port Phillip, a rumour arose that a white woman was being held captive by Aborigines in the Gipps Land bush. This book explores contemporary concerns about Australian identity and black-white relationships, and provides a valuable case study of "settler society".

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Tracks the violent history of the first years of British settlement in the Port Phillip District, now the state of Victoria. It illuminates the underlying free-settler rhetoric that advocated and abetted violence on the frontier. For the first time, we hear the settlers tell us in their own words what the civilisation of Port Phillip really involved.

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Imprint. In November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team began a trek across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole. They were beaten by a Norwegian group, and all perished. Solomon brings a scientific perspective to understanding the expedition.

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In a time of heightened hostility towards experts, academics and scientists, the 2017 collection of the best Conversation articles and essays is a must-read. If proof were needed that academia makes an essential contribution to public debate, you'll find it in these pages.

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In his eighteen-year parliamentary career, Mr Costello was Australia's longest-serving Treasurer. In this memoir, Mr Costello, the fiscal conservative and social progressive, the architect of the GST who eliminated public-sector debt, and who supported a republic and Reconciliation, reflects on more than 30 years of service to the Liberal cause.

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A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organisations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself.

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Offers the comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. This work examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. It also provides an account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.