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Tells the history of women's engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century Australia. In doing so, this book explores an array of often hidden ways women in Australia have creatively worked with film.

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His memoirs document the private struggle and the public life of the Liberal Party's chief political strategist. It offers readers an insight into one man's lifelong battle with a private demon amidst the drama and tumult of contemporary Australian politics.bb

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Examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post- colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession.

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In the course of her extraordinary public career, Edgar has inspired many followers and provoked some bitter enemies. This important, and candid, memoir , which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of television broadcasting in Australia.

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Many people believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us from crime. But do we want our police forces to become armies This volume arises from the author's study of the police shootings and paramilitarization of the police in Australia.

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Pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F B (Barry) Smith. This title brings together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma and Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy.

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Unravels the many layers of the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, it is a forensic investigation into one of Australia's most celebrated over achievers.

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Recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century - asking why there was such investment in Aboriginal affairs in the first half of the twentieth century, what form it took, what was at stake, and what the outcomes were.

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Explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself. This title considers the movement of people, money, technology, identities, beliefs and attitudes around the British world.

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This work uses parallel narratives to tell Catherine's story. Five chapters interweave quotes with comment and explanation. Between these chapters runs a twentieth century voice, offering reflections on themes such as 'madness' and 'landscape'.

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The experiences of Muslim women in Australia cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible Australian values and Islamic values, and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.

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Charles Abel was one of the most acclaimed missionaries in the South Pacific. His Kwato Mission, founded in 1891, became virtually a state within a state in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, and its influence remained long after it began to decline. Descendants of Mission families helped to form the independent nation of PNG in the 1960s.

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Why do you mess up when it matters the most - and how can you perform your best instead Sian Beilock reveals the new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. She explains the inescapable links between body and mind, and shows how to succeed brilliantly when it matters most.

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Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the eighteenth century. This work offers a comprehensive study of this naturalist, revealing a committed republican who was shaped by the turbulent years of revolutionary and Napoleonic France. It is a a story of science, survival and a grand adventure.

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Using stories and case studies to show how individuals, families and businesses experience life in cities today, City Limits provides an account of why Australia's cities are broken, and how they can be fixed.

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Through a series of conversations and case studies Maxine McKew documents the transformation that's now underway in classrooms around Australia and examines the strategies that are helping to lift academic performance. With its frank accounts of the joys and pitfalls of learning in the twenty-first century, this title will appeal to parents, teachers and policy-makers alike.

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In the rush to avoid or reduce the repercussions of climate change, we need to ensure that the burden is evenly distributed or run the risk of creating injustice. This book demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the costs of climate change is fundamentally a problem of justice.

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Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Burgmann and Baer's study offers a vision for an alternative Australia based on the principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.