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Environmental water quality: a systems study in Tuggeranong Creek and Kambah Pool »
Publication date: 1982
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Town populations »
Publication date: 1982
This second volume in the series, The Aboriginal Component in the Australian Economy, consists of four case studies of Aboriginal communities living as minority populations in medium-sized and small towns and cities in different parts of Australia. Elspeth Young discusses surveys made of a number of New South Wales country towns. Jenny Bryant writes about Robinvale, on the Victorian side of the River Murray. David Drakakis Smith's study is of the Alice Springs community. The fourth chapter, by Hans Dagmar, gives an account of the Aboriginal community of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The studies indicate a general movement of Aborigines into towns and cities. Housing, income, employment, health and education all show improvement since the 1960s, but are still at a level lower than that of the general community.
Public sector borrowing in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
This book considers a number of recent developments and issues affecting Australian public sector borrowing, including: criteria for borrowing; the present and future role of the Australian Loan Council; the relationship between public sector borrowing requirements and public debt management, the role of the Reserve Bank with respect to the relationship between government borrowing operations, monetary policy and the marketing of Commonwealth securities; and the role of the market in meeting the borrowing requirements of different levels of government and different kinds of public authorities. Individual chapters are presented from the perspective of a State Treasury, a State commercial and semigovernment authority, a market practitioner the Reserve Bank and a State Dank.
Public policies in two federal countries: Canada and Australia »
Publication date: 1982
The papers in this book examine selected public policy issues in Canada and Australia within the framework of their federal systems of government. The book consists of eight parts, dealing respectively with historical aspects of federalism, constitutional reform, inflation and unemployment, economic development and structural change, fiscal federalism, higher education and health policies, cultural policy, and problems of federal government in the two countries. The distinguished contributors include former political leaders, senior public servants and academics who have been intimately associated with major public policy issues in the two countries during recent years.
Western reports on the Taiping: a selection of documents »
Publication date: 1982
The authors have selected nearly one hundred extracts from contem porary Western diplomatic and missionary reports, from books, news papers, private journals, travel accounts, diaries etc., in short a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. All the extracts are contemporary, and nearly all are from eyewitnesses, since the emphasis is on the reportage, not on Western opinion or policy. Some are printed for the first time, from various manuscript collections; most are here re-printed for the first time. Several, including one of the longest, have been translated from the original French. The collection will be a valuable source book for teachers of courses on China since the Opium wars, providing an interesting and varied collection of material for student essays, as well as for the research of all scholars interested in the Taiping and in the Western presence in mid-nineteenth century China. It provides a good overview of the response to this major crisis of Chinese society over a twenty-year period. It supplements the Michael collection of translations with a further basic set of documents on the Taiping. The documents are, as far as possible, left to speak for themselves; commentary is kept to a minimum.
Yugul: an Arnhem Land cattle station »
Publication date: 1982
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The French in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
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Current constitutional problems in Australia »
Publication date: 1982
This book examines current issues of constitutional law in Australia from the perspective of a group of Commonwealth and State Solicitors-General and academic lawyers. The topics covered include : the nature of appropriation (including the Commonwealth spending power); excise duty; section 92; Commonwealth prerogative powers; industrial powers; and the Imperial connection.
26th Congress of the CPSU in current political perspective »
Publication date: 1982
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The tragical history of Doctor Faustus »
Publication date: 1982
This book is the result of a life-long ambition of the author's to present a version of Marlowe's famous play Dr Faustus which has come down to us in a badly mutilated form. Marlowe died shortly after it was written and successive producers replaced much of his text with scenes of knock-about farce. Enough indications of the original form of the play remain, in the opinion of A. D. Hope, to enable a tentative restoration. He does not claim, of course, to have restored Marlowe{u2019}s original text, but to have produced a possible picture of what the missing scenes may have been like, using his own instincts and habits as a poet but aiming at something like Marlowe's own manner and the usage of Elizabethan English and stage-craft.
Cinderellas of the empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu »
Publication date: 1982
Barrie Macdonald graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967 and completed his PhD in 1971 at the Australian National University. Cinderellas of the the Empire was written at Massey University, New Zealand, where the author is Senior Lecturer in History, and at the Australian National University where he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific and South East Asian History. As can be seen from his book, Barrie Macdonald was granted special access to government archives and made discriminating use of these archives, in addition to his use of missionary sources and other private papers. A decade of fieldwork and interviews with leading political figures give flesh to his impeccable use of the written sources. Barrie Macdonald is currently working on a general book on colonialism, decolonisation and development in Oceania.
Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier 1861-1897 »
Publication date: 1982
North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did {u2018}invasion{u2019} begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity. This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearlshell and beche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority. This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed.
Investigations into the authenticity of the Chang San-feng ch'uan-chi, the complete works of Chang San-feng »
Publication date: 1982
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Annals of Tai: early T'o-pa history according to the first chapter of the Wei-shu »
Publication date: 1982
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The time of darkness: local legends and volcanic reality in Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1982
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea there exist widespread legends concerning a 'Time of Darkness' in which there was no light and ash fell from the skies. The author investigates these legends and, in conjunction with measurement and analysis of the ash, which covers a large area of the highlands, determines that 300 years ago there was a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on Long Island and that the legends are essentially accurate accounts of this gigantic upheaval that is unrecorded in any written records. There are several unique elements in this book. First, a relatively recent volcanic eruption of very large magnitude is identified. Second this event is shown to have initiated a widespread legend varying from place to place only in detail, and spreading across a number of cultural groups. Third the accuracy of the legends is demonstrated by comparison with known volcanic eruptions. The study shows that legends from an area of almost 100,000 km2 and including more than thirty language groups have survived as essentially accurate accounts for about 300 years. This book will have particular appeal to volcanologists and oral historians and a general appeal to readers with an interest in natural hazards.
Stability and change in Australian politics »
Publication date: 1982
The first edition of Stability and Change in Australian Politics was a landmark in the serious study of Australian politics. In this second edition Professor Aitkin assembles the results of a new survey carried out in 1979 which sought to discover what had been the effects of the Whitlam years and their aftermath on the political behaviour of Australians. The second, expanded, edition, in which seven new chapters deal with a survey taken in 1979, will remain a basic hand book of Australian politics for years to come.
Social welfare finance: selected papers »
Publication date: 1982
This volume is a collaboration between public servants and academics to analyze problems in the welfare sector, which now occupies half of all Australian governmental expenditure. Four of its chapters deal with social security, two with health, two with housing, and two are special essays in social administration. Together they lift discussion of the Australian welfare state above its previous often polemical and uninformed level towards a more dispassionate and informative plane, technical but lucid. The social security chapters cover redistributive problems; social security inside the family; the surprisingly complex relationship between social security and income taxation; and an updating of the Henderson guaranteed minimum income proposals. The health chapters place Australian expenditure in a federal and an international framework. The housing chapters deal with aspects of the public housing program. The final chapters deal with long service leave and with evaluation in the health sphere.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 5 »
Publication date: 1981
Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
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The Ecology of a city and its people: the case of Hong Kong »
Publication date: 1981
The Hong Kong Human Ecology Programme was a first attempt to describe the ecology of a city and its human population in a holistic and integrative way. This book is the outcome. It is concerned with the 'system as a whole' - changing patterns of flow and use of energy, of nutrients and of water, and changes in housing and transport. It is also concerned with individual people - their actual conditions of life and their mental and physical health. It describes the mechanisms by which people adapt to potentially stressful conditions - such as the extraordinarily high population densities - as well as the limits to human adaptability. The book discusses important principles of human ecology relating to the interrelationship between society, environment and human well-being. The authors discussthe human ecological predicament as a whole, and they consider that the greatest hope for a long-term ecologically stable future for humankind lies in the concept of the multifocal society. Basically, this can be described as a system in which small societal units, within cities and in rural areas, are, as far as possible, self-sufficient in both material requirements for health and survival, such as food, water, shelter, clothing, and amenities, and in intangible or psycho-social aspects of human experience such as psychological support networks, recreational opportunities, satisfactory work opportunities, variety in daily experience, and responsibility for local affairs. The project was carried out by a small integrating group from the Australian National University in co-operation with a number of specialist groups from Hong Kong and Australia and with support from The Nuffield Foundation, UNESCO and UNEP. This resulting book outlines constructive ideas on the way in which society should develop if humankind is to derive the greatest benefits from advanced technology without serious damage to the ecosystem as a whole.
Japan and Australia: two societies and their interaction »
Publication date: 1981
The chief aspect of relations between Japan and Australia since the second world war has been economic. Much attention has been directed to the study of this aspect, yet that study has seldom been informed by investigation of the cultural, social, political and institutional bases that provide the framework of the relationship between the two nations and the constraints on its future development. This book aims to redress the balance a little, by building up a fuller picture than has previously been available to people in either country of the two societies and their interaction. It is a product of co-operation among a group of leading Australian and Japanese scholars in several fields, and its structure emphasises two main themes: relations between Australia and Japan which are of much importance in themselves, and the historical backgrounds and social, institutional and political factors which influence contacts between the two countries.
State taxation in theory and practice »
Publication date: 1981
This book commences with a brief examination of tax apportionment arrangments in West Germany, Swit zerland and the USA, followed by a review of theoretical and conceptual issues relating to the assignment of taxing powers in a federation. The second part of the book consists of seven papers by State and Northern Territory Under Treasurers describing recent developments in taxation in the six States and the Territory, followed by a commentary which relates Australian developments to recent Canadian experience.
Local public finance in Japan »
Publication date: 1981
Though Japan has come to play a considerable part in the world economy, little is known in Western countries of its arrangements in the field of local public finance. This monograph is intended to fill this gap. It investigates the whole area of local public finance in Japan, at both the prefectural and municipal levels, including expenditure responsibilities, taxation powers and the different kinds of intergovernmental grants arrangements. As Japan is a unitary country, the central government has strong controlling powers over both levels of local government.
An economic evaluation of national parks »
Publication date: 1981
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Vegetation classification in Australia: proceedings of a workshop sponsored by CSIRO Division of Land Use Research, Canberra, October 1978 »
Publication date: 1981
Vegetation classification systems developed thus far in the Australian region are neither universally accepted nor applicable to all types of vegetation or all types of land use problems. Those suitable for classifying rainforest are not necessarily applicable to other vegetation types. In this book scientists from a variety of related disciplines discuss various developmental aspects of vegetation classification that are relevant to Australia, though the ideas and techniques are of importance internationally. This volume brings together recent research on many aspects of vegetation classification. It is innovative, provocative and will certainly arouse controversy.
Indolent kitchen gardening: a vegetable growing and cooking guide for the part-time Canberra gardener using minimum effort and organic gardening techniques »
Publication date: 1981
Indolent kitchen gardening? Doesn{u2019}t sound right? In this book Libby Smith shows you how your garden can produce vegetables all through the year without blood, sweat and tears (though you must toil a little). The answer lies in the mulch. Mulching is the basis; earthworms, compost, compatible plants and other organic management techniques are aids to success. Oriented to a cool climate with some frosts, such as Canberra{u2019}s, Indolent Kitchen Gardening shows that you can have a reliable and regular crop and convert your harvest into simple and delicious food. If the back garden is your despair rather than your joy, this is the book for you.