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Probes the concept of 1950s masculinity, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time, offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, and challenging the common belief that the fifties were a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking.

Explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the white Australian nation. Oishee Alam details how racialisation is reproduced and experienced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Tells the true tale of a trailblazer - the extraordinary story of Susan Alberti, a lady of many firsts. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, cancer, diabetes, open-heart surgery and shed 59 kilos - half her body weight - on the road to recovery. She has stared down adversity and prevailed.

Brings together leading experts to examine the future of Australian defence policy in a contested Asia, and imagines the future of Australian strategy after American primacy, plotting strategic futures for a country that faces unprecedented strategic challenges.

Australia's leading thinkers give their robust opinion on the arguments and issues that fuelled public debate in 2018. This collection of essays brings you the best of the authoritative journalism for which The Conversation is renowned. Immerse yourself in the insights of experts and navigate the key questions of our times.

In Victoria in 1932 work for dole was introduced, it became a battleground in the politics of unemployment. This study argues that unemployed workers were not apathetic, but active, organized and successful in their aims.

Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, MP and poet - beneath the image of rake and hellraiser, Gordon remained a frustated conservative. A flawed hero, he was acclaimed as Australia's National Poet in 1933. Hutton examines him as a man and a poet against his culture and his times.

Based on extensive research of Australian media coverage, public opinion, interest groups as well as in-depth interviews with current and former diplomats and politicians, this book provides a unique insight into the policy making process in regards to one of the world's most enduring and volatile dilemmas.

This work seeeks to unravel an enigma presented by Christina stead in her fiction. Overtly Stead posits a heterosexual norm as the paradigm par excellence. Petersen argues that it is a fascade that masks both lesbianism and male homosexual desire.

A comprehensive reference and sourcebook for anyone managing a heritage place. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to identifying a heritage place, assessing and documenting the site, implementing conservation practices, visitor management, and international and Australian legislation.

Takes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. Crossing the globe, Clare Press meets passionate change-makers who believe in the power of the positive.

The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour. When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life?

This remarkable work was the first to examine the White Australia policy, and was the first book published by Melbourne University Press, in 1923. It has long been the authoritative reference on the subject, and is essential for every library. Though more than ninety years have passed since publication, the book remains invaluable.

As good as it gets in Australian politics. That's how the Hawke-Keating Government is now widely regarded. But how did this highly able, ambitious, strong-willed group work through its crises and rivalries, and achieve what it did?Gareth Evans's diary, written in the mid-1980s and published now for the first time, is the consummate insider's account. It not only adds much new material to the historical record, but is perceptive, sharp and unvarnished in its judgments, lucidly written, and often highly entertaining.

Draws on a wide range experts including academics, former and current strategic advisers and members of government, private industry professionals and intelligence community experts, to provide a diagnostic, clear-eyed approach in explaining, accessing and exposing the central foundations and frameworks necessary for effective practice of intelligence.

The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across Australia over fears for the academic enterprise and the system of free, public university education. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney.

Unravels the many layers of the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, it is a forensic investigation into one of Australia's most celebrated over achievers.

Once upon a time in Melbourne there was a gigolo who thought he was a vampire. He bit the tongue off a prostitute and was then murdered in broad daylight on a suburban street. His execution, top brass believed, was organised by police. The aftershocks of this killing-and the murder of a state witness and his wife inside their fortress home&mash;rocked the police force and the Parliament, vanquished one government and brought the next to its knees.This is the story of police corruption for years swept under the carpet to avoid a Royal Commission. It is the story of a police force politicised to the point of paralysis and a witness protection program that buries its mistakes. It involves a policeman still free and living in a very big house, a drug baron who survived the gangland war only to be murdered in the state's most secure jail, and battles royale within a police force comprised of thousands of pistol-packing members.This is the story of Melbourne around the first decade of the new millennium: its lawmen, villains and politicians. It is a bizarre, tawdry, unbelievable tale. But every word of it happened.

When it was suggested he was funny, Gough Whitlam responded: "Funny! Funny? Witty, yes. Epigrammatic perhaps, but not funny. You make me sound like a clown." James Carleton presents a keepsake of Goughisms that vindicates the Great Man's self-assessment, "I never said I was immortal, merely eternal."

Takes an in-depth look at the present situation in Afghanistan by placing it in the context of the country's tribal culture, history, and demography. It considers its association with Pakistan, with whom it shares not only a long border, but also the Pashtuns - the largest ethnic component in its population-and the rise of extremism in many parts of the Sunni world.

So, you want to be Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister? The Gatekeepers provides the key lessons to equip you for the job. It offers unparalleled insights into how things really work at the centre of Australia's governing networks from those who have worked as chiefs of staff under prime ministers from Fraser to Rudd.

Explores the key contexts for and dimensions of contemporary Australian foreign policy towards Africa. It highlights a deepening of diplomatic and political relations, a trebling of the official aid budget to Africa, and over $50 billion of Australian-based investment in Africa's resources sector, and suggests measures to make such engagement sustainable and of mutual benefit.

Through the eyes of one young Australian, weAre invited to step back and look at the bigger picture of what we know about climate change, and what we don't.

The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist's reputation after he or she dies. It highlights the sometimes heart-wrenching way emotion and duty intersect in the making of decisions by those left behind.

Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and othe unpublished material, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees have provided a frank account of an institution that, from soldier settlement schemes to Agent Orange, has responded to the needs of returned service people in a generous and open-hearted way.

Northern Australia was once one the most remote areas of the world. Campbell Macknight outlines the history of the exploration and settlement of the coast from the Gulf of Carpentaria west to the Kimberleys. He suggests it is a geographical unit very different from the rest of Australia.