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Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and othe unpublished material, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees have provided a frank account of an institution that, from soldier settlement schemes to Agent Orange, has responded to the needs of returned service people in a generous and open-hearted way.

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Mark Latham resigned from parliament in January 2005, after only fourteen months as leader of the Opposition, amid bitter post- election recrimination, and how own ill health. This provides a unique view into the life of a man, the Party, and the nation, at a crucial time in Australian history.

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After her mother's death, Anne Summers inherits a portrait of her mother as a child. She soon learns the artist painted another portrait of her mother, this time as the Madonna. Anne's search for the Madonna painting takes her down unexpected paths. Along the way Anne must face the truth of her relationship with her mother...

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This volume of orginal essays brings together, for the first time histories of the making and the makers of most of the major indigenous Australian museum collections.

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The inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia. It sees Keating and Howard as conviction politicians, tribal warriors and national interest patriots. Divided by belief, temperament and party, they were united by generation, city and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalised age.

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Our media tend to deal in prefabricated versions of reality - false assumptions of habitual values rather than open-minded observation. This work is about the major entities of the Australian media, their roles and influence in our lives, and the issues of journalistic practice that shape their content.

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Offers the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and failures of twelve treasurers.

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Tells the extraordinary story of how a dope-smoking beach bunny from Mudgee, Robyn Hutchinson, became Rabiah - a member of the jihadist elite. Known among her peers as 'the mother of Mohammed', and as 'the Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad' in CIA circles, Rabiah lived for twenty years on the frontlines of the global holy war.

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A picture of Australia's major river, the Murray. The focus is on shifts and changes: the heyday of the riverboats and their transformation into a tourist attraction; the decline of the Murray cod; the alteration of flow patterns and species; and the changing fortunes of the river towns.

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A meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator - screen relationship. Richard Leonard provides a fresh and innovative perspective on what happens when we behold a film.

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This work tells the story of the first white native-born Australians and their struggle for recognition. Against the odds of contempt, landlessness, lack of education and the stain of convictism, they fought back and shaped Australia.

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How does the Royal Australian Navy best prepare for the future Vice Admiral Tim Barrett forcefully argues the answer is by reimagining the way the Navy views itself, especially its domestic and international relationships. In The Navy and the Nation Vice Admiral Barrett outlines the extensive opportunities for the service and Australia if the Navy is embraced as a national enterprise.

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Explores the domination of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, which is the largest, richest, most powerful, and most conservative, diocese in Australia. It is led by a hardline, uncompromising and well-organised male clerical elite who are determined to impose their version of Christianity on the Anglican Church both in Australia and internationally.

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The Oromo people are refugees who have fled continued persecution in Ethiopia and by the year 2002, more than 1500 of them had found their way to Australia. In this volume, Greg Gow offers an insight into the values and meanings of lives that could easily be seen as marginal.

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More than just a campaign diary of the extraordinary 2010 Australian election and its aftermath, this is a rip-roaring, incisive analysis of a tumultuous nine months in politics that even surprised veteran journalists such as Barrie Cassidy. This is a must read for anyone interested in Australian politics of any persuasion.

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Explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences. This book offers researchers, policy makers and those engaged in community development a rich understanding of Muslim community building, engagement and agency.

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Concern over the state of the world - its tensions and disparities - fosters in many people the uneasy combination of two sensations: those of urgency and powerlessness. This book explores what we can do. It considers the options for civil society, and for the individual within the political culture.

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Combining original observation with deep emotional engagement, this provocative book argues that, despite claims to the contrary, the quality of life of indigenous Australians did not improve between 1970 and 2000.

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The Poor Relation examines the place of the social sciences - from economics and psychology to history, law and philosophy - in the teaching and research conducted by Australian universities. It also relates the arrangements made to support them and explains why they are so persistently treated as the poor relation of science and technology.

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Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of pornography in society.

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Talks about five fascinating prime ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard - and how they view Australia. This book explores the end of the idea of British Australia, and how successive prime ministers have attempted to assert personal, and often competing, visions of Australian nationalism in its place.

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