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Australia is actively engaged in the War on Terror. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Australian Federal Police have expanded rapidly in size, and their powers have been enhanced by counter-terrorism legislation. Frank Cain argues that these agencies were significantly politicised under the Howard government, though not for the first time. This book also traces the history of the intelligence agencies in Australia and their use by anti-Labour governments against the broad left. In World War I, the nationalist leader Billy Hughes deployed military intelligence against opponents of his war policy. Before and after World War II, Robert Menzies did so in taking steps to counter the activities of the Communist Party. Cain explores the contentious notion that Australia’s surveillance agencies have today become adoptive allies of the Liberal Party.
ISBN:978 1 921509 32 2 | RRP: $39.95
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In a sports entertainment environment where AFL players are sports celebrities there is no place to hide – on or off the field. All areas of a player’s performance and behaviour are constantly scrutinised by coaches, managers, the media and fans. Under this sort of scrutiny what it means to be a professional AFL footballer in the 21st century continues to provoke heated debate?—?in clubs and the media, and among fans.
ISBN:978 1 921509 01 8 | RRP: $39.95
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For forty years, Vincent Buckley (1923–1988) was a central figure in Melbourne’s literary, political and religious life. A major poet, he was also a leading literary critic, a regular book reviewer and a formidable controversialist. Themes in his work include the nature of God, religious and political responsibility and the place of poetry in a modern society. This is the first biography of Vincent Buckley.
ISBN:978 1 921509 29 2 | RRP: $39.95
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Since the establishment of the AfL in 1990, Australian football has increasingly represented itself as Australia’s ‘national game’.
Aboriginal people have played Australian football at the elite level since the early years of the 20th century, and from the 1980s
the number of Aboriginal players has increased significantly. This book utilises football to examine what it means to be an Anglo-
Australian or an Aboriginal Australian in 21st century Australia.
ISBN:978 1 921509 02 5 | RRP: $39.95
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Throughout the nineteenth century British women as diverse as Louisa Meredith, Marianne North and Beatrice Webb travelled to the Australian colonies and wrote about the emerging white civilisation they found there. Some were visitors, others settlers, but all were fascinated by the possibilities of this 'new world'. Here, Australia is seen through the eyes of such women writers. It is a land of strange and un-English flora and fauna and of wondrously growing cities; a place where European cultural institutions were beginning to flourish—and where Indigenous culture was becoming invisible.
ISBN:978 1 921509 07 0 | RRP: $39.95
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Founded in 1930 as an Anglican male religious community, the Brotherhood has a continuous history of contributions in three major areas of welfare—employment, poverty and housing. Over the years, the Brotherhood has undergone dramatic changes that are documented in this book—the first comprehensive history of the charity. It is a well-told story of innovation and controversy, and one that captures the nature and significance of much of the Brotherhood’s work.
ISBN:978 1 74097 152 2 | RRP: $39.95
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To mark the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues editor Andrew Gunstone has collected key essays by leading national experts in Australian Indigenous Studies. These illustrate the diversity and depth of the discipline, and cover many areas, including culture, identity, politics, history, health, education and sport. Covering vital themes,
History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies makes an important contribution to this discipline.
ISBN:978 1 921509 05 6 | RRP: $39.95
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All Saints East St Kilda is no ordinary church or community. Its building is the largest parish church in Australia when measured by floor space. Visitors can be overpowered with the embarrassment of nineteenth century riches in its gemlike interior. It gave birth to one of Melbourne’s earliest all-male choirs, their repertoire modelled on the British cathedral tradition.
Its musicians have gone on to occupy leading positions in cathedrals or sing on the concert platforms of the United Kingdom. For early Melbourne Anglicans, it was the diocese’s leading ‘high’ church at a time when that involved differing radically from the position held by Bishop Charles Perry. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it articulates a new kind of difference, as home to traditionalist Anglicans. The story of the All Saints East St Kilda church
community is told in the context of a growing and changing Melbourne suburbia, and most recently against the backdrop of cultural shifts at a national level.
ISBN:978 1 921509 26 1 | RRP: $44.00
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Light is an elusive and paradoxical force. It cannot be ‘seen’, but neither is it a pure abstraction. The Burning Mirror critically examines the dazzling impact of light’s much-neglected ambivalences on photographic histories, theories and practices. The burning mirror with which Luce Irigaray critiques Plato’s simile of the cave is invoked to direct this blinding light squarely onto photography. The photographic practices of solarisation, lens flare, overexposure and the blinding light of the flash are examined, as well as analyses of photographs by Maurice Tabard, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Catherine Yass, Tokihiro Sato and Danielle Thompson. This is a new, multifaceted mode of photographic critique.
ISBN:978 1 74097 196 6 | RRP: $39.95
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Current scholarship on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) remains captivated by the overarching US role. Yet Australia also participated in the Occupation, held a vision for a Pacific future, and developed a postwar relationship with Japan. Australia and the United States often disagreed over contentious issues related to Japan’s postwar reforms. This is particularly evident in labour reform policy and on issues of social and economic justice. Comparisons with Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps inevitable, and the narrative illuminates the paradox of the imposition of democratic reforms via military occupation.
ISBN:978 1 74097 161 4 | RRP: $39.95
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John Howard was once fond of calling himself the most conservative leader the Liberal Party had ever had, and under his leadership and subsequent prime ministership, prominent members of the Liberal Party began referring to themselves conservatives for the first time. Did this represent a conservative revolution or were Liberals merely being encouraged by Howard to emerge from the conservative closet? This book seeks to locate Howard in the broader historical context of Australian conservatism, and sees in his ideology the resurrection of a long-dormant strand of thought that went under the name of liberalism in the 19th century. It argues that he has changed both the Liberal Party and Australian conservatism in general, inflicting heavy damage on both.
ISBN:978 1 921509 30 8 | RRP: $39.95
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The rapid economic development of Queensland in the 19th and early 20th centuries was due in a large way to the work of Aboriginal children. Some as young as two years old, they were forced to work with white people building the region’s industries. This book is the first full-length examination of their exploitation. Drawing on extensive original research, Dr Shirleene Robinson brings to light the exploitation and abuse inflicted on Aboriginal children to benefit white settlers. Many of these children were part of Queensland’s earliest ‘stolen generations’. Their forcible removal from their parents and family groups caused extensive pain and suffering that is still felt today.
ISBN:978 1 74097 187 4 | RRP: $39.95
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In 1526, several ships of a Spanish expedition entered the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan. One of them, the San Lesmes, was never seen again. Four centuries later, in 1929, four iron cannon were found on the reef of Amanu atoll, French Polynesia. The find created little interest until 1975, when Robert Langdon argued that the cannon were from the San Lesmes, the crew had survived and intermarried and that vital aspects of the wider development of Pacific island communities needed to be reassessed. Now, in Kon-Tiki Revisited, Langdon makes an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the complexity of Polynesian origins.
ISBN:978 1 74097 134 8 | RRP: $39.95
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In 1939, young Joan Falkiner’s spirited flight from South Yarra to princely India and her marriage to the Muslim ruler of a small state in Gujarat sent shockwaves through Melbourne society and political reverberations throughout the Raj and – as the kingdoms were about to disappear forever in the maelstrom of Indian Independence – as high as the British throne.
How did it all come about? Through conversations in Melbourne, Mumbai and the South of France, research in the India Office Library in London, and the author’s personal journey while travelling in modern India, Suzanne Falkiner traces the course of a most unusual love story.
ISBN:978 1 74097 162 1 | RRP: $39.95
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