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,…
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…
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…
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future - Mark Latham (Reviews)
Author/editor:Mark Latham
Year published:2015
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post Left Futureby Shaun Crowe In Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future, Mark Latham declares himself to be a new, glass-half-full kind of guy. Where he concedes that, once upon a time, he was guilty of focussing obsessively on the Labor Party’s problems, he’s now…
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Author/editor:Tracy Beck Fenwick
Year published:2015
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific…
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Author/editor:Tracy Beck Fenwick
Year published:2015
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific…
Casting a look at a ‘federal’ schooling system
Author/editor:Jennifer Wallner
Year published:2015
Over 2014, the Abbott Government made it clear that it intends to make major changes to the way federalism works in Australia and one of its primary targets is education. As it was released two days before Christmas, we would all be forgiven for missing the roles and responsibilities paper put out…
Eureka: Australia’s Greatest Story
Author/editor:David Headon|John Uhr
Year published:2015
The editors of this book boldly proclaim that Eureka is Australia’s ‘greatest story’, and they have gathered together some of our country’s finest historians to prosecute the case. Collectively, they compile a strong argument. In the late 19th century that acute American observer, Mark Twain,…
Human Rights and Human Wrongs: A Life Confronting Racism (Biography)
Author/editor:Professor Colin Tatz AO
Year published:2015
Racism crushes bodies and souls. In Human Rights and Human Wrongs, Colin Tatz, a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Aboriginal Studies in Australia and an author of major works on genocide, Aboriginal youth suicide, and Aboriginal and Islander sporting…