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Demonstrates the main convention of the short story-specifically the heightened reader response that the author terms narratorial presence'. The intensity of the short story encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world, as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities in the narrative.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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In this book, a special edition of the journal Australian Historical Studies, essays by leading academic and freelance historians look at the newest trends in teaching and appreciating the past.

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Roy Douglas ("Pansy") Wright was one of the great Australians of the 20th century. Born on a hill-country farm, he became a medical scientist and a builder of institutions such as the Australian National University. This biography reveals the many contradictions in this complex man.

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An account of the development of the parliamentary committee system in Australia from 1970 to 2006. It explores the implications the system has for both governance and careers of parliamentarians. It examines the different roles of House of Representative and Senate committees.

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A panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past and how in thinking about the past we mirror the time and place of our own living.

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The horror film has always been populated by male monsters, many of which do carry out monstrous acts of violation, rape and castration. The horror film is also filled with male monsters who grow fur, change shape, bleed and give birth. What is it that defines male monstrosity How does the male monster differ from the female monster

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Recounts the introduction of official commemorations of Indigenous peoples and histories into the heart of Melbourne since 2000, explaining how they came to be part of the city and the ways in which they have challenged the erasure of its Indigenous histories.

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In an attempt to engage with the concept of political culture, this volume develops a method for examining the explanatory capacity of political culture in relation to the issues of civil war and conflict resolution in Lebanon and Algeria. The book demonstrates how political culture operates to shape the form and affect the legitimacy of conflict resolution processes.

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Collecting the research of leading historians and writers, this book explores Soviet tourism through figures such as Eric Ashby, RM Crawford, Reg Ellery, Neill Greenwood and Esmonde Higgins. Drawing on both Australian and Soviet archives, this is a unique insight into the Soviet experience in the 1920s-1940s.

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Continued political and economic turbulence, pervasive threats of terrorism and climate change: 2015 was a testing year. Even Australia's charmed run as the lucky country threatened to come to an end. This collection of articles from traverses the year's highs and lows, the issues and possible solutions from experts in education, environment and energy, business and health, the arts and society.

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London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. His body did not go directly to a grave. Possessing the Dead explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the dead, and brings to life this gruesome past.

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Fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia. It contemplates why whites forged these agreements & how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why the govt repudiated them & how the whites claimed to be the rightful owners. B Attwood, Monash University.

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The story of Australia's first non-Aboriginal community legal centre, which opened in 1972 at a time when access to legal assistance was largely denied to people on low incomes, marking the beginning of a period of legal radicalism in Australia.

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In a cool, authoritative and gently ironic biography, Don Baker considers the life of the fiery John Dunmore Lang. A tireless doer, he was a populist politician in the Legislative Council, ran three newspapers and circled the globe eight times. Although he answered only to God, he was a hero to ordinary workers.

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The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across Australia over fears for the academic enterprise and the system of free, public university education. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney.

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Barrie Cassidys dad Bill survived more than four years as a prisoner of war in World War II. Private Bill is a classic heart-warming story- as told by their son- of how a loving couple prevailed over the adversities of war to live an extraordinarily ordinary, happy life.

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Explores how our personal pasts intersect with broader historical questions and debates. Drawing on interviews with Australians from five communities around the country, Anna Clark uncovers how we think about the past in the context of our local and intimate stories, and the role history plays in our lives.

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Due to their pre-parliamentary careers and the influence of electoral rules, Senators are available, in several senses, to perform key tasks, both prior to and during the formal election campaign, in assisting their parties to secure the maximum number of House of Representatives seats. But how professional really are major party senators

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The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how it was experienced at tactical, political and emotional levels. This book explores how participants and observers in World War I negotiated the temporal and spatial challenges of the conflict.

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Investigates the fascinating landscape of media-driven politics through the prisms of public opinion, political campaigning, and audiences. From Indigenous voting rights and climate change to talkback radio and right-wing populism, Public Opinion, Campaign Politics & Media Audiences showcases new research in political science, history and media studies.

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Speaking as a Jewish woman, the author deeply feels the traumatic pain of her people and because of that pain is anguished by the violence towards other people entailed in the Zionist project.