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Journalists tend to go from one story to the next with little time to think deeply about the impact their work has on the people they cover, or how their professional practices might be refined. But what the public sees is often negative: intrusive cameras, shouted questions, rude and aggressive behaviour.

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Examines the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant with the British nineteenth-century rediscovery of chivalric ideals and aesthetic, spiritual and architectural practices and models; and more.

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Revealed in this relentlessly candid yet sympathetic study is Nellie Melba the drama queen, the monstrous prima donna, the canny businesswoman, the generous and kindly friend, the unique star who refused to fade.

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In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort - ""seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care"" - to the hot house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe.

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Peter Ruehl's humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review's most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades.

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A study of spiritualism in Melbourne between 1870 and 1890. Al Gabay explores the origins of the movement and relates its rise and fall to the wider intellectual and religious currents in Australian society. He shows that the seance was not a "scientific" enterprise but a religious event.

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Managing stress is an important issue not only for the military, but equally for other high-risk professions. Focusing on the Australian Defence Force experience, this work provides a synthesis of a wide range of research, offering a coherent, integrated approach to the subject.

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Topical and up to the minute, Minority Policy explores the influence of marginal parliamentarians both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy. Drawing on the experiences of two former policy advisers, this title takes the discussion up to and beyond the introduction of the new Senate in July 2014.

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In this text, du Cros shows archaeologists at work in surprising and interesting ways, such as engaging in national politics to save ancient caves and negotiating with developers and planners. The case studies raise important ethical issues such as conservation versus commercialism.

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Offers an overview of ""the Australian"" newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades.

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Muslims in Australia have attracted increased attention as citizens in the last decade. The research scholars in this book present a complex and dynamic picture of their presence and experiences in Australia, taking us far beyond simplistic notions of security threats and discrimination.

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Offers not only rigourous accounts of current difficulties, but also new thinking and deeper understanding about race relations and intercultural engagement in multicultural societies.

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Documenting socio-historical characteristics rather than providing a theological interpretation, Muslims Making Australia Home covers interrelated Islamic themes in the sociology of religion by noting how these themes reappear in cultural history.

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Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family. As her relationship with her father, author, journalist and historian Brian Fitzpatrick fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter.

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When he realised he had a meat addiction, award winning food writer Richard Cornish went vegetarian for a year. What he didnt realise were the changes that he would have to make to his life. My Year Without Meat is as humourous as it is dark, with the author shining the light on the ethics that surround our food production.

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This book is for old readers who still miss Nation, and for the young who never knew it. K.S. Inglis, himself a contributor, has chosen the items and written a history of the journal, to make a retrospective exhibition, a chronicle of the time, and a bedside or poolside book for the 1990s.

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Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Neither Power Nor Glory fills an important gap in Australian political history and our understanding of the Labor Party. It is also a timely antidote to nostalgia about Labors past. In Victoria at least, that past was anything but golden.

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Explores the key contexts for and dimensions of contemporary Australian foreign policy towards Africa. It highlights a deepening of diplomatic and political relations, a trebling of the official aid budget to Africa, and over $50 billion of Australian-based investment in Africa's resources sector, and suggests measures to make such engagement sustainable and of mutual benefit.

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Jana Wendt sets out to discover what drives us in the work we do. She follows a compelling group of people, from a boxer set for a comeback to a maverick priest, and a CEO whose company is mired in scandal to a forensic anthropologist investigating murder. The result is a wonderfully observed and entertaining portrait of modern work.

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Investigates the consequences for children of changes in work patterns and the job market, marriage breakdown, higher educational expectations, community breakdown, and the growing divide between those who have and haven't benefited from the nation's increased prosperity. This work reflects on the community's responsibility for children.

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Nothing prepares a person for the job of chief of staff to a Commonwealth Minister. Allen Behm became chief of staff to Greg Combet in 2009, the minister responsible for managing carbon pricing and the pink batts crisis. A seasoned troubleshooter, Behm has an uncanny ability to anticipate and deflect political crises.

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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.