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Warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a sense of urgency, this book shows how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools.

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How did Australia transform from a protected, insular country to an outwardly focused, globalised one And why should it now resist a return to its protectionist past Conley argues that the state has a responsibility to promote diversification of trade while regulating economic activity and ensuring that the benefits of growth are widely spread.

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2001 to 2004 were contentious years for the Howard Government. This third volume of the Howard Government series explores these controversial years. This volume takes a critical look at the government's performance during the Tampa crisis, the children overboard affair, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the history wars.

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'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history.

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A scathing insider expose, this account lifts the lid on a higher education system thats corporatized beyond recognition, steeped in bureaucracy, and dominated by marketing and PR imperatives rather than intellectual pursuit. Fearless, ferocious, and often funny, this exposes a world that stands in stark contrast to the slogans and mottos joyously promoted by Australias universities.

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We think of retirement as something to be celebrated, even envied, a time when you are finally free to do your own thing. This title explores the experience of retirement from the point of view of those not yet retired, those newly retired, and those who are further down the track.

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Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the RAAF College and UNSW Canberra. In Widening Minds, Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between University of New South Wales and Australian Defence Force.

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This work covers a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Its terrain is both environmental and cultural, political and poetic.

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Addresses how care-leavers adjust to life in the outside world. Using interviews with people who grew up in orphanages and group homes in Victoria between 1945 and 1983, this book explores how institutionalisation affected future education, employment opportunities, and relationships and health.

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The Anzac Legend is examined here as a media-based phenomenon. Using newspaper reports of the Great War from Australian, British, French, and German sources, John Williams reveals how the media operated during that first experience of total war

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One of Australia's leading thinkers, draws on a lifetime of research, analysis and commonsense in his blueprint for making a better Australia. This is a major work from one of Australia's leading and influential thinkers.

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Develops an understanding of how Australia is responding to new realities in work, globalisation, industrial relations reform, retirement, citizenship, political trust and family and community life. This book draws on research and analysis of some of Australia's leading social scientists to challenge conventional wisdoms about Australia.

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Provides an insight into what Australians think about contemporary political and social issues, using data collected form the inaugural Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, on the expressed opinions of some 4300 Australian adults. This is a resource for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.

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An accessible but comprehensive overview of Australia's telecommunications regulatory framework. Written by experienced insiders, it describes the laws and policies affecting competitors and consumers, and the regulatory and self-regulatory bodies that administer them.

Facilitates a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles and elements of automated machine control systems. Describes mechatronic concepts, but highlights PLC machine control and interfacing with the machine's actuators and peripheral equipment. Explains methodical design of PLC control ci

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Author and educator Judy Gill addresses the ongoing debate between coeducation or single sex schooling. She starts by giving a brief overview of schooling in Australia and its various school systems, and then follows with an examination of the rationale for single-sex schooling and the cases for and against.

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Why is western humanity, richer and safer than ever before, also fatter, sadder and more fearful This title offers an engaging critique of the way we live now. It asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive, from the five-car garages of the McMansion to the insatiable urge to shop, shop, shop.

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Examines in a practical way means by which communities can be strengthened. This book includes material on communities of interest, as well as those based on locality. It includes useful principles and pointers for students, community workers, designated community leaders, policy makers and ordinary citizens.

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Offers a comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of government over the first century of its life. Based on the author's research and 30 years' experience writing about central government in Australia, this book provides an understanding of both the history and the working of the institution.

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Whether we are dealing with natural disasters or a visit from a Head of State, the calculation of political risk has become an increasingly important part of the political decision-making process.