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The Asian Century is challenging many of the assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars have collectively produced a smorgasbord of alternatives for policy-makers. How should we evaluate these options Adam Lockyer tackles this question and develops a novel conceptual framework for evaluating defence strategies.

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Almost half a century ago, the T.B. Millar penned a seminal book on Australian defence policy in the lead up to the Vietnam War. Drawing inspiration from Millar's original volume, Australia's Defence brings together leading experts to examine the domestic and international context of Australia's defence policy, Australian strategy and the size and state of the Australian armed forces.

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Since its first publication by Melbourne University Press "Australia's home" has been in constant demand. The author summarizes his story, from 1788 to 1960, as "a material triumph and an aesthetic calamity".

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From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. The author goes beyond the propaganda of the era to reveal for the first time the true causes of waterfront unrest. It captures the drama of the waterfront under Robert Menzies.

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This title aims to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. It offers Australian viewpoints, from the famous to the obscure, the official to the flagrantly informal, the rhetorical to the ridiculous.

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The present war in Iraq is a war that the public feel strongly about. This collection in a timely response to these concerns. It features a wide range of views from hundreds of international writers, left and right, including contributions from Australian authors.

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Examines the issues of terminal illness, how we die and different attitudes towards mortality. This title covers issues such as: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, grief, chemotherapy, death and dying, world politics, Darfur, Sudan, AIDS, refugees, and poverty.

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When it comes to Australia's most baffling, bizarre and brutal modern murders, very little is as it seems. This unpacks the compelling psychological riddles, inspired investigations and sensational plot twists of 13 sordid contemporary homicides.

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In 2005, the AFP referred eight Islamic books to the Australian Classification Board. After nearly a year of review, and intense public debate, two of the books were refused classification and effectively banned in a move that would have severe repercussions for librarians, scholars, authors and the state of free speech in Australia.

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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives.

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Presents an attempt to examine, at the ethnographic level, the different ways in which individuals are shaped by, and interact within, the larger structures and social institutions that surround them. This title documents an instance of Australian Aboriginal people trying to achieve change in their lives.

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Tells the history of women's engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century Australia. In doing so, this book explores an array of often hidden ways women in Australia have creatively worked with film.

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His memoirs document the private struggle and the public life of the Liberal Party's chief political strategist. It offers readers an insight into one man's lifelong battle with a private demon amidst the drama and tumult of contemporary Australian politics.bb

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Examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post- colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession.

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In the course of her extraordinary public career, Edgar has inspired many followers and provoked some bitter enemies. This important, and candid, memoir , which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of television broadcasting in Australia.

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Many people believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us from crime. But do we want our police forces to become armies This volume arises from the author's study of the police shootings and paramilitarization of the police in Australia.