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The underlying concern of this book is the issue of balancing the needs for national security with individual rights and freedoms. Hocking argues that current security legislation compromises the separation of powers and individual legal and political rights.

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The first-ever comprehensive study of the design of Australian electoral systems. It focuses on the two electoral systems, both 'preferential', that are most closely associated with Australia: namely the alternative vote and the single, transferable vote.

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Beginning with the punishment systems of the ancient world, Sean O'Toole investigates the birth of the modern prison, the transportation process, the convict era and finally the creation of Australia's various State and Territory prisons and community corrections systems.

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Studying abroad is an appealing prospect but involves a great deal of thought and preparation. The process can be fraught with uncertainties and a lack of knowledge in many areas. This practical book helps you evaluate your options every step of the way.

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Looks at the opportunities and obstacles that face refugees whose homelands are in turmoil. This book draws on interviews with refugees, policymakers, officials, and aid workers in Nairobi, Kakuma, Geneva, Canberra, and Melbourne.

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Tells the inside story of the US-Australian alliance. Features explosive behind the scenes conversations between Australian and American leaders that reveal the secrets behind Australia and US military and political policy in the war on terror.

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This important book, based on extensive interviews and unprecedented access to SBS archives, argues that SBS is one Australia's most significant and innovative cultural institutions and that its charter to broadcast for multicultural Australia is as relevant today as it was when the organisation started 30 years ago.

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Argues that the skyrocketing increase in obesity levels is not caused by individuals' moral weakness, but is due to modern society lacking the virtues. This book identifies a set of seven social and environmental 'sins' that characterise our contemporary world, and describes how each impacts on the level of obesity.

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Tracks the profound changes that have occurred in Australia's population profile over the last 30 years and then predicts the expected population trends for the next 30.

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The complexity of the human brain explored through ten fascinating case studies. From alien hand syndrome, anorexia nervosa, frontal lobe dysfunction and phantom limb to dementia and golfer's cramp, the author provides an understanding of how each disorder has been conceptualised and treated and the challenges for neuropsychiatrist and patient.

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Brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment.

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Offering an introduction to a technology that we can't do without, this is a comprehensive book on the Australian Internet.

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Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk and suggests some positive directions in social policy designed to anticipate and help people address risk. This book does not identify 'risk' as a negative; instead it argues that converting risk into opportunity requires a co-ordinated policy response.

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Provides a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-terrorism laws and their effects. Shows what constitutes a crime of terrorism in Australia, and what happens when the authorities seek a control order or an order of preventative detention over an individual.

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Think coal mining, and most likely you think men. This book tells a very different story. Women have long been the backbone of the coal mining industry. As wives and mothers theyve fought battles for better working conditions; established womens auxiliaries; distributed food to strikers and their families, and stood on picket lines.

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From its early beginnings in the 1980s, the vibrant world music genre in Australia has burgeoned to become the dynamic scene it is today. World Music charts this evolution, with chapter contributions from some of Australia's most knowledgeable and respected world music journalists, broadcasters, academics and promoters.

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Intended to encourage critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution, this title includes chapters on human rights, liberal democracy, economic efficiency, problems of the market, and distributive justice.

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A major work in the field of environmental philoisophy that sets out to describe and explain the many strands of thought that underlie and support the environment movement. Hay's aim in writing this book has been to provide a faithful account of the main feeder streams that flow into the swift running river of Western envornmental thought.

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Based on extensive research in both Australia and England, Kate Lance has produced a fascinating portrait of Villiers and the world he inhabited. Lance depicts the legendary sailor as a man of contradictions, who lived for the sea and adventure, and who is now respected and recognised as a brilliant writer, photographer, journalist and adventurer.

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