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Practice without policy: genesis of local government in Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1978
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2889 1885_114770.jpg ANU Press Practice without policy: genesis of local government in Papua New Guinea Friday, 18 August, 1978 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Fenbury, David M
A select bibliography of Australian military history 1891-1939 »
Publication date: 1978
The existing literature on the experience of Australia and Australians in wars is surprisingly vast. Also in time of peace, particularly before the First World War, there have been vigorous episodes in the national defence debate which are well documented but in sources which are frequently difficult to discover. This volume attempts to survey and list the major historical sources in these fields, both official and non-official, for the period 1891-1939, the years which will be spanned by Volumes 7-12 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Its contents cover the pre-Federation debates on defence questions, the South African War, and the Boxer Rebellion, the development of Australia's national defence policy 1901-1914, the First World War and the discussions of defence issues between the two World Wars.
Some early Australian bookmen »
Publication date: 1978
The Australian book trade, as it is known among its practitioners, has a history almost as long as that of New South Wales. The first Australian book, New South Wales General and Standing Orders, is dated 1802; the first book of poetry, Barron Field{u2019}s anonymously issued First Fruits of Australian Poetry, appeared in 1819. This book does not tell the whole story of the trade; rather, it selects some of the outstanding figures among booksellers, book publishers, authors and bibliophiles to show how the trade developed during its formative years and the debts we owe to these significant and interesting pioneers. The book is extensively illustrated, with reproductions of rare books, portraits of outstanding bookmen, pictures of old Sydney and old Melbourne, and a rare poem by Henry Lawson. Beautifully designed and printed, in an edition limited to 1,000 copies, this book graces its subject and will grace the shelves of the discriminating book buyer.
Raw materials and Pacific economic integration »
Publication date: 1978
The major focus of this volume is trade in raw materials, which is the basis for trade between Australia and Japan and, indeed, for the economic relations within the Western Pacific region. While dominance of world markets for raw materials is generally understood in Western Europe and North America, it is not yet appreciated in either country just how fundamental are her relations with her nearest neighbours in supplying the country's resource requirements. A quantitative analysis of the nature of economic relations between Japan, Australia and the developing countries in the Western Pacific and South-East Asia is presented together with a detailed consideration of an 'interdependant' economic relationship. The way in which trade and investment activity has produced a 'mutual dependence', the role played by long-term contracts in maintaining the relationship and the implications for domestic economic management are of special interest to all countries where trade is concentrated in particular markets or which have special relationships with considerably larger or smaller partners.
Kulinma: listening to Aboriginal Australians »
Publication date: 1978
Kulinma means 'keep listening' and that is what this book urges Australians to do if their attitudes towards, and policies for, Aboriginal Australians are to command respect. Dr Coombs's understanding of Aborigines' problems and aspirations has developed over the years when he was Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, because he and his colleagues listened patiently and with open minds to what Aborigines have said not only to them and other whites, but to one another. The book is intended as a record of that developing understanding and as an expression of gratitude for the many lessons the author and other members of the council learned in the course of their work among Aborigines. All who are interested in the attempts that have been made in recent years to end the cruelty and indifference that have characterised the attitudes of most white Australians towards Aborigines and to find a basis for mutual respect in the future will find both disappointment and consolation in these pages. Those who know little of the original Australians will learn much.
The voyage of the "Scotia" being the record of a voyage of exploration in Antarctic Seas »
Publication date: 1978
"The Voyage of the Scotia" is a very readable account of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-4 by its botanist, meteorologist and geologist. The expedition's leader was the marine biologist, W. S. Bruce. After early travels in both the Arctic and the Antarctic, Bruce fitted out his own expedition, having raised some {u00A3}36,000 with the support of the Scientific Societies in Edinburgh and help from the Coats family. This was a much smaller sum than that raised for Scott{u2019}s Polar Expedition, and Bruce never had enough money to give full scope to his ideas. However, a great deal was achieved in the Scotia. The expedition sounded, dredged and trawled extensively in the Weddell Sea, making great contributions to the natural history of seals, penguins, and other birds and rich collections of the fishes, plankton, marine sediments and algae. They wintered in the South Orkney Islands, making unique contributions to the botany, geology and glaciology and setting up a meteorological station which was afterwards maintained by the government of Argentina. As a result of the expedition, Bruce founded a Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in Edinburgh. In his new foreword to this book, Sir George Deacon relates briefly the careers of Bruce, Rudmose Brown, Mossman and Pirie sub sequent to the expedition. The Scotia herself had to be sold to raise money, and was lost in the Great War.
The Australian National University: people and places in a landscape. »
Publication date: 1978
The Australian National University welcomes to its campus visitors from Canberra, from elsewhere in Australia and from all around the world. This book offers those visitors a guide to the buildings and the grounds of the University campus, and it outlines the wide range of the University's research and teaching interests. It is a valuable aid to those who wish to explore the campus for themselves and will be an enduring reminder of their visit, while its extensive illustrations present an inviting picture of the University campus for those who have not yet had the opportunity to visit it.
Sport under Communism: the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, the G.D.R., China, Cuba »
Publication date: 1978
The 1980 Olympics are being held in Moscow - the People's Republic of China is about to enter the Olympic Movement - Cuba is now among the more formidable participants in the Pan-American Games - the German Democratic Republic, with a population of 17 million, is fast becoming the world{u2019}s most "successful" country in sport {u2026} What does all this mean? In the West nobody doubts the importance of the Communist countries in international sport - or their success in the Olympic Games, which they now virtually dominate. Sport is seen very clearly as a far more eloquent advocate for a political system than any amount of books and speeches. There is growing interest here in sport and physical education as practised in Communist countries (and indeed in the role of "physical culture" in our own societies). But how much do we actually know about what goes on behind the dazzling performances we see on our television screens? - about the organisation of sport, mass participation, the training of "stars", sports boarding schools, physical culture courses, facilities, and the nature and functions of "physical culture" in society? The answer, for most non-specialists, is "not much". The need for a comparative study is therefore clear, and this book has been designed to give a great deal of information and analysis in a form that the non-specialist reader will find enjoyable, as well as putting a handy vademecum into the hands of those with a more professional interest. A highly qualified and experienced team of writers together provide insight into the world of sport in five communist countries - the two biggest (the USSR and China), two (the GDR and Cuba) that have achieved results out of all proportion to their size, and one (Czechoslovakia) which can be taken as a representative of the smaller Communist-ruled states of Eastern and Central Europe. As an introduction there is a comparative analysis.
Papua New Guinea portraits: the expatriate experience »
Publication date: 1978
The Europeans who went to the land that is now called Papua New Guinea went with many different motives: to serve God or mammon, to satisfy their curiosity, to win fame and find adventure. Their lives illustrate that Papua New Guinea was a frontier where men who elsewhere might have led ordinary lives could accomplish the extraordinary. They faced an astonishing range of physical and mental challenges in this, to them, new, formidable and beautiful country. Some walked where no white man had ever trodden; some taught; some preached; some exploited. Inevitably, over time they faced problems of adaptation, none perhaps greater than the change from masta-boi relationship to that where Papua New Guineans rule their own nation, a situation that Hahl or Monckton, for example, would have greeted with total incredulity. Some, like Chalmers, lost their lives there; some, like Mason, fought there; some, like the Leahy family, still live out their lives there. Individually these pen portraits sketch men who were adventurous, physically tough, and mentally flexible; together they vividly portray the way of life of the white man in Prospero{u2019}s other island.
Programming language systems »
Publication date: 1978
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Federalism in Canada and Australia: the early years »
Publication date: 1978
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The study of politics: a collection of inaugural lectures »
Publication date: 1978
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The Ruhr and revolution: the revolutionary movement in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial region 1912-1919 »
Publication date: 1978
The German Revolution and its aftermath, the period of the Workers' and Soldiers' Councils, was a critical time in German history. Historians have asked whether the revolution could have changed the then existing inequalities. If so, it might have formed a basis for reconstruction which in turn would have arrested the deep division in the German labour movement, a major factor crippling Weimar Germany which contributed to the rise of Nazism. Dr Tampke deals with the revolutionary movement in the Rhenish- Westphalian Industrial Region - the Ruhr as it is commonly called, a part of Germany where the workers' radicalism was especially pronounced. He seeks to explain why the revolution took such a variable course in the Ruhr. This book moves into urban and regional history, a field that has so far been little studied and is an important contribution to knowledge of European urban and working-class history.
Fishing around the Monaro: a selection from The seven rivers »
Publication date: 1978
This is not a fishing guidebook or a how-to-fish book, but a book written, in the words of the author, "for the pleasure of going fishing again in retrospect along my favourite rivers". Reprinted from The Seven Rivers, Douglas Stewart's reminiscences of fishing in Australia and New Zealand, this collection is an affectionate evocation of the wildlife, the scenery, the fishermen and the fish of some of the rivers accessible to Canberra anglers.
Give and take: exchange in Wola society »
Publication date: 1978
The Wola people of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea place unusual emphasis on the sovereignty of the individual. Their society places few constraints on its members; they have no government, no authoritative leaders, no formal judicial system. If to paraphrase Rousseau, man is born free but is everywhere in chains, Wola man is very lightly shackled. Order in Wola Society is based on the exchange of wealth, the effect of an elaborate exchange system that allows the handing round of wealth - pearl shells, pigs and other, minor items. Exchange among the Wola is an important social principle. It requires co-operation and constrains the fractious individual to maintain an ordered society. This book presents a vigorous, new analysis of a Highlands people that is a substantial contribution both to the ethnography of the New Guinea Highlands and to anthropological theory.
Chemistry in the market place »
Publication date: 1978
This book is an expanded version of the first edition of Chemistry in the Market Place. It is a work of high seriousness but its 'flavour' is perhaps best captured in the words of its author as he describes the circumstances of its beginnings: {u2018}over three glasses of cool, artificially coloured, artificially foam stabilised, enzyme clarified, preserved, gassed, amber fluid{u2019} two colleagues and he came to realise that consumers needed some {u2018}real{u2019} chemistry, chemistry that would help them to make sense of the arguments that rage about various aspects of consumer products, particularly those of safety and efficacy. The thrust of the book is towards the product and the chemistry needed to understand it, rather than towards chemistry illustrated by the product. Its scope is wide and includes chemistry in the laundry, the kitchen, the garden, the boudoir, the medicine chest. It also deals with motor cars, the accidental poisoning of children, and carcinogens. It is extensively illustrated with plates, figures, and tables, and contains practical experiments for its users. The book will be welcomed by high school, college and adult education lecturers who are interested in creating courses in consumer chemistry. Concerned consumers will also benefit greatly from the information the work contains, regardless of their knowledge of chemistry. Home economics teachers will find that it forms a perfect complement to their existing texts. It is, in short, an important, practical, hook on a highly significant subject.
Studies in the immigration of the highly skilled »
Publication date: 1978
Despite the quantity of official and academic studies generated by the postwar immigration program, little publicity has been given to Australia's gain of highly skilled workers. This book has been written to fill out our knowledge in this area. Until recently, Australia experienced shortages of professional man power, and both government and private employers looked abroad for it. But professional skills are not as easily transferred across the globe as are lesser skills. The postwar years have seen conflict between the Australian government, seeking a broad immigration policy, and the professional groups, responsible for maintaining standards within their professions. The author devotes the last part of her book to one of the larger professions, the architects, yet many of her findings apply to the profes sions generally. Most 'professional' immigrants are British by training, if not by birth, and this happy accident has made them automatically acceptable. The 'non-acceptable' must face examination - yet the level of average earnings does not suggest that the non-British trained are inferior as practitioners. Mrs Salter shows that of recent years the trend has been towards an 'internationalisation' of standards by the professional bodies. This book will be read with interest by government officers and professional people, and by all students of Australia's immigrant population.
Your own pigs you may not eat: a comparative study of New Guinea societies »
Publication date: 1978
Pigs, yams, valuables, and women are items of exchange throughout New Guinea. Their widespread ceremonial exchange, one of the most striking characteristics of New Guinea life, does not arise out of economic necessity. Rather, ceremonial exchange is a total social phenomenon in that the ritual distribution of large quantities of food and valuables reflects the interplay between kinship and marriage structures, the nature of political leadership, and the religious and symbolic systems found in these cultures. Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat is an admonition to exchange as well as a title. The book is a comparative study of thirteen New Guinea societies, focusing on these distinctive ceremonial distributions as a way of understanding the relationship between exchange and various social and cultural domains. Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman write as structural anthropologists, drawing in part on the work of Levi-Strauss and Edmund Leach. The first section of the book analyzes the thirteen societies in terms of variables relating to large-scale ceremonial exchange, and each chapter concludes with a structural model based on the results. The authors then compare related groups of variables, such as kinship, marriage rules and structures of affinal relationships, symbolic meanings, and different kinds of exchange. The book concludes by showing how the underlying structures of the thirteen groups may be related to each other by a series of transformations. These transformations are then related to a postulated prototypical society, and the whole series forms a hypothesis about the evolution of societies in New Guinea. Many studies have been done on New Guinea cultures but this wide-ranging work, with its comparison of a number of societies rather than an examination of parts of one or two cultures, provides a unique theoretical synthesis.
A matter of justice »
Publication date: 1978
The Aboriginal 'Embassy' on the lawns outside Parliament House, Canberra, was a striking symbol of the dissatisfaction many Aborigines feel with the justice they receive under the white man's law. This book demonstrates how that justice discriminates against Aboriginal Australians. Dr Rowley discusses typical situations - the plight of the Aboriginal employee on the northern cattle stations, the fringe dwellers round country towns, those living in the cities and those still on managed reserves. He examines the question of land rights, and the failure of the white institutions to offer justice to Aborigines. The book ends with a discussion of the role of bureaucracy in Aboriginal administration and of the opportunities which could be offered to Aborigines through new institutions. In A Matter of Justice the author's knowledge and understanding of Aborigines and their problems reveals a compassion and humanity towards Aboriginal people all too rare among white Australians.
Safe disposal of high level nuclear reactor wastes: a new strategy »
Publication date: 1978
A new and improved strategy for safe disposal of wastes from nuclear reactors is provided by a study of the geochemical means by which natural rocks and minerals retain the same elements that are present in these wastes. Certain natural minerals have demonstrated the capacity to immobilise radwaste elements for periods up to 2000 million years, and the fundamental reasons underlying this capacity are well understood in terms of the basic principles of geochemistry. Professor Ringwood outlines his SYNROC process, which utilises currently available technology to produce synthetic igneous rocks in which high-level wastes are incorporated. Fol lowing nature's example, the synthetic minerals making up these rocks are specially tailored to immobilise the radwaste elements. New methods of processing and storing SYNROC materials provide additional fail-safe barriers which further prevent nuclear wastes from entering the biosphere. Ringwood's principal conclusion is that the problem of isolating high-level nuclear wastes from the biosphere can be solved. This slim volume will present no storage problems: it may solve many.
Intergovernmental financial relations in the United Kingdom »
Publication date: 1978
The main emphasis is on the financial relations between central and local government in the United Kingdom. The opportunity is taken to draw on the large amount of information published in 1976 as a consequence of the first major official inquiry into local finances for some fifty years. Attention is also given to the financial implications of the proposals for devolution of power to new Scottish and Welsh Assemblies. Although the mono graph primarily relates to intergovernmental financial matters in the U.K., parallels are drawn from time to time with other countries and there is also some examination of the common underlying theoretical issues. After holding academic posts in the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester, the author took up his present position as Professor of Economics (with special reference to the Public Sector) at the London School of Economics in 1970. He has written a variety of books and articles in the field of public finance and has been both a Visiting Professor and a Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University.
Mirrors of the New World: images and image-makers in the settlement process »
Publication date: 1978
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Migrant household economic behaviour »
Publication date: 1978
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Customs of respect: the traditional basis of Fijian communal politics »
Publication date: 1978
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Undiscovered Canberra: a collection of different places to visit, things to do and walks to take in and near Canberra »
Publication date: 1978
This Canberra Companion will be as welcome to the local resident confronting a dull weekend as it will be to the visitor to the city. It goes beyond the usual range of tourist activities to describe places that are interestingly different to visit, unusual things to do, attractive walks to take. Clear directions and absorbing background information make a welcome blend of the practical and the entertaining, while the wide range of activities suggested offers plenty of choice to suit all tastes.