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Traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of British and Irish settlement to this day. This title offers an approach to Aboriginal history in an urban setting in Australia.

Presenting a fresh perspective on the First World War, this book explores the personal dimensions of war disability within families. It tells the story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home disabled soldiers after the First World War. It also offers an account of the impact of physical injury and shell shock upon returned soldiers.

Governments need high quality policy analysis and advice as they wrestle with complex economic, social and environmental issues. This book explores public policy practices in Australia and New Zealand, and ways to enhance performance and capability in the policy analysis and advisory system.

Reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers - a fact which complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. This work includes the runaway ""Black Caesar"", who became our first bushranger, and the subversive Billie Blue, who was the first ferryman on Sydney Harbour, after whom Blues Point is named.

Explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of uncertainty and division, this work offers stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. It focusses on reconciliation, between indigenous and 'Settler' peoples, and with nature.

Pays attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. This book shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia.

Offers a lively and informative guide to the complexities of the global economy and how to navigate it. Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can't you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, Tim Harcourt takes you around the globe, talking to businesses, governments, union officials and NGOs, taxi drivers and shopkeepers, to understand what makes each economy tick.

Obsessed with our own youth and wanting perfect, genius children who live in a world of designer clothes and toys, this title says it's time for us to find new ways of parenting and a new kind of childhood. It asks us to respect children and allow them to experience childhood with all its ups and downs.

This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.