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Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial regarding the history of Australia since European arrival.

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Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia 'off the American path' of gun violence.

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Explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry and this book compares and contrasts life-long impersonations and other forms of cross-dressing.

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The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted hunters, traders and collectors for generations. Among the most sought-after items of the twentieth century was the bird of paradise: their magnificent plumes bedecked womens hats and provided regalia for kings and military men.

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By looking at both the material evidence produced by archaeological excavation and the written sources, Allen sought to integrate both sorts of evidence to produce an eclectic history that was neither social nor political nor economic in its primary emphasis, but combined all three.

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The Indigenous languages of Australia have been undergoing a renaissance over recent decades. Many languages that had long ceased to be heard in public and consequently deemed 'dead' or 'extinct'.

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A comprehensive and critical edition of Alfred Haddons intimate and remarkably rich journals from his two expeditions to the Torres Strait in 188889 and 189899.

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Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Flanagan's fiction. Featuring 12 essays from leading scholars, this volume offers new insights on how his native Tasmania has influenced Flanagan as a writer, and the impact that he has had on Australian and world literature.

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Rolf Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms, published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 1882-83, and published as a novel in London in 1888.

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The Stepping On program is a community-based falls-prevention program that shows participants how to reduce falls, increase confidence and maintain personal independence.

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Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia. Warung's stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity', though he draws on documentary fact and social realism.

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Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886.

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The Eureka Stockade is Carboni's eccentric yet shrewd account of the events leading up to and beyond the miners' revolt on the Victorian goldfields in 1854.

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An invaluable reference for finance professionals in the industry eg, those using the IFRS imposed requirements to access fair value. Legal professionals who specialise in the mining industry will also benefit from this text.

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Pip Smith's Too Close for Comfort, is the inaugural winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest, a biennial prize for a book of poetry by an Australian female poet which deals in some way with Australian culture.

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Trap (1966) won the Miles Franklin Literary Award when it was published. Its comic and satiric elements and use of several narrative voices provide revealing interpretations of cross-cultural relations, bureaucracy and politics in Australia.

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Studies in Empirical Philosophy was published in 1962 shortly after Anderson's death. It remains the main published source of material on Anderson's systematic philosophy and includes an introduction by John Passmore.

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(Paperback, First published in 1793 by G. Nicol and J. Sewell)

Watkin Tench served as a captain of marines on one of the vessels of the First Fleet and recorded his observations of the voyage in A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. Tench also wrote of the subsequent settlement in New South Wales in A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson.

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This report highlights changes in general practice activity in Australia over the most recent decade (April 2001 to March 2011) of the BEACH program, a national cross-sectional study of general practice activity. Over this time 9801 participating GPs provided details of 981,000 GP-patient encounters.

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With the growing capacity of networked digital information technologies to process large amounts of information in a timely, efficient and user-driven manner we have seen an increasing demand for better access to and re-use of public sector information (PSI). Volume 1 draws together papers on the topic by policymakers, academics and practitioners.