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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed What was Jane Austen doing in Chawton, coveting an apricot How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his Italian Gedankenbaum, 'thought tree' In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young reveals some of literature's most intimate relationships: between authors and their gardens.

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Recounts the introduction of official commemorations of Indigenous peoples and histories into the heart of Melbourne since 2000, explaining how they came to be part of the city and the ways in which they have challenged the erasure of its Indigenous histories.

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The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across Australia over fears for the academic enterprise and the system of free, public university education. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney.

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Investigates the fascinating landscape of media-driven politics through the prisms of public opinion, political campaigning, and audiences. From Indigenous voting rights and climate change to talkback radio and right-wing populism, Public Opinion, Campaign Politics & Media Audiences showcases new research in political science, history and media studies.

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Probes the concept of 1950s masculinity, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time, offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, and challenging the common belief that the fifties were a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking.

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E-learning straddles the crossroads where the management of education, training, performance, knowledge, human resources and change collide. Relearning to E-Learn is the result of a 12-month international research project designed to better understand both e-learning and the impact of multiple disciplines and processes within an organisational context.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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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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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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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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This volume was the first book devoted entirely to an investigation of the many problems associated with the relation between the stolne and surreptitious copies of which Heminge and Condell complain in their address To the great Variety of Readers, and the corresponding plays of Shakespeare printed by them in the first folio.

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This book addresses philosophically the moral and political underpinnings of terrorism and anti-terrorism. It brings together authors with different attitudes and original perspectives on attitudes and ethical and practical justifications for terrorism.

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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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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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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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Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of universities and their graduates in the 1920s and 1930s, the increasing government validation of research, the expansion of the public service, and the rise of modern professional associations and international networks.

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This book traces the office from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding a legacy of invention and ingenuity - the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant.

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When it was suggested he was funny, Gough Whitlam responded: "Funny! Funny Witty, yes. Epigrammatic perhaps, but not funny. You make me sound like a clown." James Carleton presents a keepsake of Goughisms that vindicates the Great Man's self-assessment, "I never said I was immortal, merely eternal."

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The official Australian casualty statistics for the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significant inaccuracies and omissions. The startling findings in this study, which began when author David Noonan first read the letters written by his grandfather from the Western Front, rewrite Australia's casualty statistics of the First World War.

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Presents the results of three years of research into the unique social and political geography of the Torres Strait borderland. The Torres Strait Treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea serves to construct a complex institutional layering, a tiered economy and a hierarchy of identities.