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Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, whether it is taking on the big end of town, transforming cartels or challenging low paid workers being ripped off. In this book he opens up about how his daughter's schizophrenia, what it was like being sacked at 74, and what thirty years of public service has taught him.

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Brings together leading writers from both law and media studies to examine the implications of the shift to digital television for the platforms and audiences, copyright law and media regulation. Through its scope and topicality, the book substantially develops the literature on digital television to serve readers from across the fields of law, the humanities and social sciences.

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A biography of two of the most interesting literary women to emerge in the early 20th century. Gertrude Stein, American-born, moved to France aged 28, where she met her life long partner, Alice B Toklas.

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A challenging and thought-provoking work that offers a new way of understanding how the sacred haunts the modern through the effect of the uncanny. Gelder and Jacobs show how Aboriginal claims for sacredness radiate out to affect the fortunes and misfortunes of the modern nation.

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Brings together a unique range of information on who our students are, what they want from school, how well they think their schools work, what subjects they study, how well they succeed, and where they end up. It also reveals their larger views on matters such as jobs, careers, marriage and family and the political system.

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The papacy is the greatest and longest-lasting institution in the history of the West. Paul Collins describes the evolution of the office of the papacy over the past two millennia, from St Peter to Pope John Paul II.

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Corporate governance may be guided in the pursuit of particular interests by many influences, including law, politics, capital and labour and other pressure groups. How these competing pressures balance out varies enormously from state to state. This title offers a contribution to these complex issues.

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This work argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The text makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called ""the right of the sword"".

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In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting. What is it to wait What do we wait for And how is waiting connected to the social worlds in which we live

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A powerful Melbourne crime family. A teenage protected witness. The killing of two policemen. Terror. Violence. Loyalty. In Walsh Street, Australia's most famous criminal family comes to life. This edition includes a new foreword from the author with updates on all the major players.

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Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War presented moral dilemmas that divided the nation. This title presents the influences that shaped the media agenda of the time and identifies patterns of press coverage that continue to be discernable in the reporting of military conflicts.

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A book of inspirational stories from Australian A-League football star Archie Thompson that shares his love of the game and his family through the highs and lows. He writes on everything from the importance of discipline and loyalty to how to build confidence in yourself and overcome life's challenges while enjoying the good times.

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In the same vein as the Robert Cowley book on British hypothetical histories, What if asks the same questions about Australia's past. Leading Australian historians including Stuart Macintyre, presents counterfactual history.

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Across the world, the story is the same. Sex scandal. Media frenzy. Another prominent man caught with his pants down. So why do men take such risks for sex Sex therapist Bettina Arndt's new book is all about why sex matters so much to men.

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A critical survey of multicultural theory and practice.

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Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad Challenging conventional accounts of addiction, this book aims to show that most ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted.

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Offers the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior ministers - the book asks a number of pressing questions about the relationship.

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There are many species providing ecosystem services that maintain the quality of air and water and the fertility of the soil. This book shows how the natural systems that surround us play an essential role in protecting our basic life-support systems. It encourages us to protect the biological wealth of Earth from destructive human activity.

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Explore how Australian governments, during the modern period of Australia's engagement with Asia (from 1983 til today), have attempted to use their defence and foreign policies to shape the region. The book focuses on the three main campaigns the Australian government has undertaken since the early 1980s to reshape the Asia-Pacific in pursuit of its national interests.

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Explores how Australian governments have engaged with Asia over the last thirty years, attempting to use their defence and foreign policies to shape the region. Winning the Peace focuses on the three main campaigns' Australian governments have undertaken since the early 1980s to reshape the AsiaPacific region in the national interest.

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Contributes to the growing literature on comparative religion and new religious movements. More specifically, it draws attention to a new religious movement. Using a multidisciplinary approcach, Hume describes the emergence of a controversial worldview which has roots in ancient ideas but whose ideology is rooted in the 20th century.

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Offers a landmark history of Australian war journalism covering the regional conflicts of the nineteenth century to the major conflicts of the twentieth: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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An exploration of what it means to be a female citizen in Australia. The authors show how women from different backgrounds, have, over centuries, rewritten their own citizenship. They argue that the legacies of these historical debates underlie understandings of modern Australian citizenship.