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Espresso chronicles Melbourne’s coffee history and the personal desires and fortunes of many of the city’s coffee industry pioneers. This updated 2nd edition will be available in a new paperback format and includes exciting new stories from more of Melbourne’s well-known coffee suppliers
Available March | ISBN:978 1 74097 132 4 | RRP: $21.95
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For the first time, the history of getting women into the Parliament of Victoria and their experiences once there is brought to life in Challenging Women. From the foundation of the Women’s Electoral Lobby to the launch of EMILY’s List, this engaging book draws on historical sources and the MPs’ experiences and perceptions to tell the story of a key twenty-five year period that was critical in laying the foundations for women’s increased political representation.
Since obtaining suffrage in 1908, 89 women have been elected to the Parliament of Victoria. This book examines the push by political activists to get women into Parliament and then gives women MPs the chance to reflect on the experience of getting into Parliament. They share their insights into the experiences of being challenged by the traditional male domain and their strategies for challenging it.
Available March | ISBN:978 1 921 509 04 9 | RRP: $39.95
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Weeks after the Twin Towers fell, Australian forces joined their coalition allies in the fight against the Taliban. Over the succeeding years, while US and British reporters have joined their troops in border patrols, on Medevac choppers, and in bloody fire fights, providing compelling dispatches from the front lines, access to ADF personnel has been strictly limited and the Australian public has barely glimpsed its own men and women at war. This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the military-media relations that have shaped Australian media coverage of the war in Afghanistan. It examines the history of the Australian media’s relations with the military, assesses recent changes to ADF public affairs policies, explores the experiences of the public affairs personnel delegated to enforce the information management regime and the journalists who have to work within and around it, analyses the resulting media products, and the understandings of the war they have produced. What are we doing in Afghanistan exposes the ingrained culture of secrecy that dominates the military’s relations with the media, critiques the effects of this culture on military-media relations, the public’s understanding of what its troops are doing in its name, and ultimately questions the military’s understanding of and respect for the principles of democratic accountability. Here, for the first time, is a penetrating look at the information war behind the war in Afghanistan.
Available ANZAC DAY | ISBN:978 1 921509 36 0 | RRP: $39.95
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When the Labor Party Dreams tells the story of the 1930-32 New South Wales Labor government led by Premier Jack Lang. Labor came to power at a time of unprecedented working class radicalism which had been forged by the experiences of World War I, the class struggles of the 1920s and the crisis of capitalism in the early 1930s. Lang and his associates both manipulated and responded to this radicalism. When the Labor Party Dreams uses previously unexamined archival records and oral histories to show how Lang’s government made policy, engaged with the bureaucracy and pushed the conventions of parliamentary democracy to the limit. For the first time in Australia, it employs ecological regression analysis to examine Depression-era electoral behaviour, and shows how Labor’s radicalism was ultimately constrained by the dependence of working-class voters on capitalism. In today’s age of pragmatism When the Labor Party Dreams recalls a time of dreams and visions and their costs, from the factory floor to the Cabinet table.
Available March | ISBN:978 1 74097 194 2 | RRP: $39.95
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