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Explores Harold Mitchell's remarkable personal journey from son of a sawmiller to the owner of a $100 million business, rubbing shoulders with Australia's most powerful people. This title traces Mitchell's philosophies about business and life, and presents guidance for young business executives trying to make it in the corporate jungle.

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A comprehensive reference and sourcebook for anyone managing a heritage place. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to identifying a heritage place, assessing and documenting the site, implementing conservation practices, visitor management, and international and Australian legislation.

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A fascinating account of a two-year voyage of discovery by Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux in search of the Comte de La Perouse in the South Pacific. The mission failed to find him and many of its men died from illness, destined to sail for two years without a single word of the extraordinary events unfolding back in revolutionary

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Charts the history of waterscape change for a Moorabool River catchment near Ballarat in the central highlands of western Victoria since white settlement. In bringing a historical rather than scientific perspective to the issues of water allocation and river management, the author considers how people experienced the 'settlement' of water.

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Presents the tales of young girls falling pregnant out of wedlock, and covers the different viewpoints and experiences from which the stories come.

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In the 1920s and 1930s a highly visible network of white women activists vigorously promoted the rights of Australian Aborigines. The telling of this little known story breaks new ground by linking feminist history and race relations.

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AI can be all too human: quick to judge, capable of error, vulnerable to bias. It's made by humans after all. Made by Humans explores our role in automation and the responsibilities we must take on. Roaming from Australia to the UK and the US, this is a personal, thought-provoking examination of humans as data and humans as the designers of systems that try to understand us.

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Through the eyes of one young Australian, weAre invited to step back and look at the bigger picture of what we know about climate change, and what we don't.

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The road that led to the inauguration of the Australian nation in Centennial Park, Sydney, on 1 January 1901 was by no means smooth travelling. Alfred Deakin noted that Federation must always appear to have been secured by miracles. This work covers the individuals who made these miracles happen.

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Based on extensive research of Australian media coverage, public opinion, interest groups as well as in-depth interviews with current and former diplomats and politicians, this book provides a unique insight into the policy making process in regards to one of the world's most enduring and volatile dilemmas.

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Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers. Then just as he claimed one of the industries most glittering prizes, he fell foul of Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen. What would any self-respecting Broadmeadows boy do Sue them of course

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A critical study of Marcus Clarke - arguably Australia's best known and most important nineteenth-century writer. It situates Clarke both within the bohemian culture of Melbourne and a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture extending beyond national borders. It also unearths the richness of Clarke's writing.

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In the heroic age of polar exploration, Sir Douglas Mawson stands in first rank. In this biography Mawson's many achievements are illuminated, which enabled us to understand the human side to the man.

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Meanjin is Australia's second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation's writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began.

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In the summer edition of Meanjin, Miles Franklin award winner Alexis Wright puts a challenging question: who should have the right to tell Aboriginal stories Also includes writing from Katharine Murphy, Tim Dunlop, Arnold Zable, Fiona Wright, John Kinsella, Beejay Silcox, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Geoff Page and John Clarke.

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Analyses eleven cases of Australian high-technology innovation, exploring where we have gone right and where more could have been achieved. Drawing lessons from both the successes and failures, this title provides insights into Australian innovation management, and the challenges that lie ahead.