Publications
The School of Politics and International Relations has a long history of excellence in research both by faculty members and its graduate students. The publications pages provides you with a list of all of the Schools, including the various Centres associated with the School, major publications in recent years. The SPIR publications are those publications not necessarily associated with a particular Centre.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap: Understanding Australia's Political Complexion
Author/editor: Juliet Pietsch
Year published: 2018
Race, Ethnicity and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however,...
Attitudes to housing affordability
Year published: 2017
The 24th ANUPoll - Attitudes to Housing Affordability: Pressures, Problems and Solutions - has found an overwhelming majority believe the great Australian dream of home ownership will be out of reach for future generations. With the government due to announce housing affordability measures in the 9...
Australia’s Unthinkable Genocide
Author/editor: Colin Tatz
Year published: 2017
“We are a moral people” and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkable—so claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UN’s Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good...
Innovation, Science, and Business
Year published: 2017
The latest ANUpoll has found a large majority of Australians support science and want politicians to rely more on the advice of scientists and experts. The ANUpoll also found 67 per cent of those surveyed believe science is best funded by government rather than private business, while 82 per cent...
Leadership Performance and Rhetoric
Author/editor: Adam B. Masters|John Uhr
Year published: 2017
This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon. In particular, it considers the use of public rhetoric to defend leadership legitimacy in six case studies, drawing on leadership...
Policy Agendas in Australia
Author/editor: Keith Dowding|Aaron Martin
Year published: 2017
This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general...
Ageing and money
Year published: 2016
The 20th ANUpoll - Ageing and Money: Public opinion on pensions, inheritance, financial wellbeing in retirement and caring for older Australians - reveals many Australians are worried about their retirement and their ability to afford a comfortable life after leaving the workforce. The latest...
Attitudes to national security
Year published: 2016
Maintaining national security in an age of terrorism means that we, as citizens, are asked to relinquish certain individual rights and liberties in the name of public safety. Whether it is the retention of our telecommunications activities, ability to walk around our cities without being captured...
Tax and Equity
Year published: 2016
Tax and Equity in Australia: What Australians Want —the 21st ANUpoll in the series—asks Australians what they think about these issues in the Australian context. Should we be worried about governments holding debt? Which areas of spending should have priority, and which can be cut? Should we pay...
Australian attitudes towards national identity
Year published: 2015
A new ANUpoll on national identity has found Australians believe speaking English and respect for political institutions and laws are the most important factors in being Australian. Being born in the country was the least important factor. The 18th ANUpoll found overwhelming support for immigration...