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Every year as Collingwood prepares to play Essendon at the AFL's annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood's president, Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team's changing rooms and passes it around.

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Colonial ambition tells the story of the politicians and would be politicians of Sydney who were driven by a determination to push themselves and their new colony to a higher level.

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The 2010 federal election campaign had more twists, conspiracies and betrayals than a ripping political thriller. Confessions of a Faceless Man is the day-by-day account of the campaign by one of Labor's faceless men - Paul Howes, head of the Australian Workers' Union.

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Investigates the history of the detection and treatment of child abuse through the lens of the Children's Protection Society from 1896 to the end of the 20th century. The text explores the inner world of the organization within history and the changes in law and the social constructions of abuse.

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Places transportation in context as one of various modes of punishment used in the English penal system, considering its reformatory as well as its deterrent features. The proposals to use America and South Africa as penal colonies, and the eventual choice of Australia, are also discussed.

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Tells the stories of women who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains. This work tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience.

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Cleste de Chabrillan became the most prolific female stage writer in nineteenth-century France. Forever haunted by her scandalous past, Cleste fought to hold her place in an artistic world dominated by men. This title tells the story not only of her struggle as a creative artist to survive and earn a living, but also of her fascinating life at the centre of the bohemian circles of Paris.

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Using a varied blend of approaches, the author places the creative writer and artist within a modern history of arguments over questions of creativity, and discusses creativity as a social-cultural practice, presenting it as an historical, political and inevitably compromised practice which must always be in dispute.

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Ever since the 1992 Mabo decision put an end to the legal fiction that Australia was without owners before the arrival of the British colonisers, the work associated with resolving native title claims has developed as a significant arena. Creating an exploration of native title work, this work presents the experiences of twenty professionals.

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Explores the synergies between jazz and the French. This cultural history teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture.

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Examines Australias history of strategic dependence. Malcolm Fraser argues that Australia should adopt a much greater degree of independence in foreign policy, and should no longer merely follow other nations into wars of no direct interest to Australia or Australias security.

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Addresses the major gap in film scholarship - the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. This title argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical.

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This memoir by a leading Australian playwright casts a shrewd eye over Australian culture and politics. Michael Gurr has written, directed and acted. He's also been a political activist. The diary meshes the personal with the political - from the Dismissal in 1975, through the rise of economic rationalism, net culture, and globalisation.

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Questions the relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the twenty-first century. This title retraces the birth and subsequent growth of labour law and argues that it is essentially a mechanism for employee protection, not labour market regulation.

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Offers a glimpse into the world of newspaper journalism. This book shows how a newspaper moves from being empty at the start of the day to being full twelve hours later, puts readers in the shoes of a journalist on the news-gathering trail and, examines the truisms of what drives circulation. It looks at what it is that newspapers consider news.

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This is a non-academic version of Gallipoli: The Turkish Defence, written to be of interest to the general reader. Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Defending Gallipoli is the first and only book to tell the complete story of this bitterly fought campaign, from both points of view.

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Environmental protection and responsibility - Australia.

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A contribution to the ongoing discussion of Australian citizenship. The articles reveal the complexity of Australian legislation as it has tried, over the years, to accommodate changing ideas about exactly what citizenship entails, and who is, or is not, eligible for it.