Staying alive is much more than a personal challenge. For most of us it revolves around health and medicine, good fortune and opportunity. In a world fraught with violence and inequity it is also a geopolitical issue, especially for those in war torn countries, places ravaged by drought and disaster or beset by violence and genocide.

Explores Australia's increasingly important political, social and cultural engagement with Asia. Australians are more connected with Asia than ever before, but the public debate and understanding lags behind the lived reality.

Elections change countries even if the government remains the same. This book will help set the agenda for a new year. Irrespective of the outcome of the election, Australia in 2008 will be a different place, more open to new ways of thinking.

A unique collection of reportage, analysis, memoir, photography, fiction and poetry. Essays by leading writers and thinkers explore what the new world order may mean for Australia and expose sources of fear and insecurity. Griffith Review will be produced quarterly by Griffith University and ABC Books.

How can cities become more sustainable in this time of population growth and climate change Australian contributors.

Queensland is the new centre of political gravity in Australia. Twenty years ago it was a repressive and corrupt place out of step with the nation. Hidden Queenslandexplores the most remarkable transition in Australian political history: the people, the politics, the policies behind it and the lingering impact of secrets.

Sex and money can be a shortcut to power, but they are unreliable and utterly subject to human frailty; in a year of unprecedented economic turmoil, the limits were sharply defined.

When the Prime Minister included the arts and creativity in the 2020 Summit this year, it was a sign that after a decade artists, actors, writers and others engaged in the creative economy were being taken seriously. This issue of Griffith Review draws on the talents of those attending the summit to present a bold new agenda for the nation.

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Major changes of direction that affect whole societies occur very rarely. We are on the cusp of an epochal change which promises to transform the world as we have known it. The building blocks of this change have been put in place over the past decade. Cheryl Kernot's lead essay explores what this may mean for the future.

Griffith Review is a quarterly publication from Griffith University that captures the spirit of the times with fresh and provocative writing. In this issue, Australia's long-standing sentimental attachment to the bush is examined in relation to the reality of the urban existence of most Australians.

"Griffith Review" is a quarterly publication from Griffith University that captures the spirit of the times with provocative writing. This third issue of "Griffith Review" explores the way networks of mates and technology are changing the way Australia really operates.

Science and popular culture are driving our obsession with physical perfection. This issue explores the limits of this obsession and what it may mean for the future. Contributors include Donald Horne, Robyn Williams, Michael Goode, Charles Watson, Sam Torney, and others.

Goes inside the creation of celebrity, stories, news and political spin in search of fragile truths. Who and what can you believe The media is dominated by celebrity, swamped by lies and propaganda.

Griffith Reviewis a quarterly publication from Griffith Uni that captures the spirit of the times with fresh and provocative writing about topical subjects. Australia is a country of immigrants, but a million Australians live abroad. They still call Australia home but, in the global village, notions of belonging and place have changed.

Fundamentalism is the new ideology. Religion has become a more potent force in world affairs than it has been for generations, with devastating consequences. Our desire to be safe is shaping decisions in unprecedented ways. Fundamentalism has become a metaphor for dogmatic solutions to complex problems.

Features stories about who we are at a time when Australians feel more divided than ever, presenting a different take on the nature of social divisions in Australia. This book also includes stories that take the reader inside particular communities, confronting old stereotypes, celebrating the tapestry of the Australian experience.

Will challenge our fascination with Northern Australia and the region. The keynote essay by the principal historian of the Australian War Memorial, Peter Stanley, will present new evidence which challenges the accepted view about the threat Australia faced during the second half of World War II.

A critical evaluation of privatisation and the contracting out of government services in Australia, this book challenges bureaucrats to improve public sector financial administration and parliaments to establish accountability that fits contemporary conditions. It provides a basis for rational debate on privatisation.

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