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Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force.

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Looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melbournians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity. This work examines Melbourne, among the surburbanised of nineteenth-century cities, in its pursuit of 'suburbanism as a way of life'.

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Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.

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Set against a backdrop of marina developments for the near-dead, a rampant drug culture, the underground porn industry and the anarchy of schoolies week, The Secret Life of the Gold Coast is a disturbing but often comical expose that trawls the underbelly of Gold Coast life while pondering the elusive nature of Paradise and the unexpected consequences of our desires.

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Bettina Arndt, uncovers the night-time drama being played out in bedrooms everywhere. She draws on her thirty-five years of professional experience to provide a provocative analysis that challenges our basic assumptions about sex, and proposes a new approach to how couples can enjoy regular sex - and sustain loving relationships.

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A history of the University of Melbourne from 1850 to 1939. Offering a social, educational and cultural history rather than an institutional one, the author places the university into the society of which it was (and is) a part. The daily life of both staff and students is portrayed.

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Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked when she was sacked herself. The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis and the people whose lives have been glossed over in the grand narratives of politicians and commentators.

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It was a David and Goliath-style battle: Australian investigators up against a global organised crime empire.

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The first detailed analysis of the Australian Takeovers Panel. Although the first ten years of the Panel are regarded as unsuccessful (only four matters were considered), since 2000, the Panel has considered more than 300 matters. It is regarded as having made a very important contribution to the effective regulation of takeovers in Australia.

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Drawing on contemporary political stories and examples, The Trust Deficit shows us how faith in our politicians has been eroded but how it can be rebuilt. By breaking trust down to its elements - reliability and competence, openness and honesty - we see how recent leaders established trust and used it to their political advantage.

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An illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity that documents how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people. The Unknown Nation unravels the origins, influence and implications of our hesitant coming of age.

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A funny and endearing book about a local cricket team that exceeded even their own expectations to play off for the premiership. As they contend with waterlogged fields and poor light, they move inexorably towards a climax worthy of the dramas that have preceeded it.

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Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit, rubbish-filled room in a run-down boarding house at 4.45 pm on Monday 11 November 2009. By 6 pm, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick .He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father; celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow.

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Spanning two generations, this book is set against a backdrop which ranges from the mansions of Georgian England to the hovels of New South Wales. John Ritchie tells how D'Arcy Wentworth endeavoured to re-establish himself and to further the career of the son for whom he cherished great expectations.

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Tells the story of a general practitioner and his patients. The scene is Victoria in the mid-twentieth century. Many of the changes which revolutionized - medicine, antibiotics, immunization and blood transfusions - were yet to be made. Conditions were hard, transportation primitive and hospital facilities scarce.

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With case studies including data gathered from dance audiences as well as psychological analysis of new dance works, and interviews with artists and video of performance pieces, this collection of essays suggests that dance-making can be a form of imaginative enquiry - a thinking in time and space - for those who perform it, and those who watch.

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Paquita Delprat and explorer Douglas Mawson became engaged on the eve of his 1911 Antarctic expedition. Mawson was to be away for fifteen months, and their life would begin after this separation. Mawson's return was delayed another year, stretching the lovers' endurance to the limit. This work sheds light on aspects of Sir Douglas Mawson's life.

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Presents an examination of the effects of hyperconsumerism on contemporary life that provides a comprehensive look at how choices affect the balance between work and life in society. Using past experiences, the author explores issues that concern many and asks the question, Is it possible to have too much choice

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Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.

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Presents the results of three years of research into the unique social and political geography of the Torres Strait borderland. The Torres Strait Treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea serves to construct a complex institutional layering, a tiered economy and a hierarchy of identities.

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Celebrated writer Benjamin Law is one of Australia's brightest literary stars. For his hysterically funny and moving stage premiere, Law employs his effortless self-deprecating wit to spark joy in the clutter and find truth in those crazy moments that bring families closer together.