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Despite the critical importance of the Australian-US Alliance and the evolving nature of the regional and global strategic environment there have been few studies that attempt to provide an in-depth understanding of how the Alliance is developing. This volume provides a nuanced understanding of the Alliance and related choices for Australia.

What do we really know about the Greens in Australia? Is the party really just an extension of the environment movement, or has it matured to a professional party, capable of taking on the "big boys"? This book represents an important effort to come to grips with this question, by talking to the people who make the party tick.

The events of the Great War intensified the relationship between the British Empire and Australia; the legacy can still be felt today. This volume explores both the immediate and long-term consequences of the war on this complex relationship, looking in particular at identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism.

Using stories and case studies to show how individuals, families and businesses experience life in cities today, City Limits provides an account of why Australia's cities are broken, and how they can be fixed.

Offers the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and failures of twelve treasurers.

When he realised he had a meat addiction, award winning food writer Richard Cornish went vegetarian for a year. What he didn't realise were the changes that he would have to make to his life. My Year Without Meat is as humourous as it is dark, with the author shining the light on the ethics that surround our food production.

It has been over fifteen years since the 1999 Intervention into East Timor, led by Australia with the International Force for East Timor. This collection of essays brings together a range of participants in the momentous events of 1999 and provides a timely reflection on how they see it - reflecting on the meaning, the consequences and the implications arising from the Timor intervention.

Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.

What is unique about political advertising? Is it really all that effective in changing votes? And why does it have to be so annoying. In The Hard Sell, creative director Dee Madigan uses humour and a down-to-earth approach in examining the world of political advertising. Dee is candid about the tricks of the trade and the lessons that can be learnt.

What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still haunts contemporary life. Human Remains tells the story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before anatomy was regulated in Australia and Britain.

Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China, epitomised by the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam. Stephen FitzGerald's own story is interwoven with the wider one of this dramatic change in Australia's history, as diplomat, China scholar, adviser to Gough Whitlam, and first ambassador to China.

This is the story of Josh Funder's great grandfather, Stanley Watson, who for a long time was thought to be the last man to leave Gallipoli (he was the second-last). It is told in narrative style, with a mix of fact and fiction, and from different time perspectives and locations.

Almost half a century ago, the T.B. Millar penned a seminal book on Australian defence policy in the lead up to the Vietnam War. Drawing inspiration from Millar's original volume, Australia's Defence brings together leading experts to examine the domestic and international context of Australia's defence policy, Australian strategy and the size and state of the Australian armed forces.

This is a non-academic version of Gallipoli: The Turkish Defence, written to be of interest to the general reader. Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Defending Gallipoli is the first and only book to tell the complete story of this bitterly fought campaign, from both points of view.

Offers a critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. This book addresses an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre.

Brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It traces the evolution of several of the key arms of the Australian Imperial Force, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together.

This text brings together a range of information on who Australian students are, what they want from school, how well they think their schools work, what subjects they study, how well they succeed and where they end up.

The Henty brothers were pioneer settlers from 1834 at Portland Bay. The journals tell of the lives of four young men variously engaged in farming, whaling and coastal shipping, providing a record of the introduction of well-ordered English farming methods to a new land as well as a whaling logbook.

What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. This book presents the story of their work, leisure and relationships.

The book presents a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the campaign material of the women's movement 'Change for Equality Campaign' -- one of the most progressive and sophisticated movements in the Middle East/Central Asia.

It was a David and Goliath-style battle: Australian investigators up against a global organised crime empire.

Drawing on extensive interviews with current and former ministers, ministerial staffers, and senior officials, this in-depth examination offers insight into the Australian political and democratic processes.

Focuses on historians and the history profession. This work not only asks but also answers the questions about writing and researching history such as: How do historians choose their histories? What sort of emotional investment do they make in their subjects, and how do they control their sympathies? How do they deal with unpalatable discoveries?

Looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melbournians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity. This work examines Melbourne, among the surburbanised of nineteenth-century cities, in its pursuit of 'suburbanism as a way of life'.

This volume of orginal essays brings together, for the first time histories of the making and the makers of most of the major indigenous Australian museum collections.