Peter Beilharz - John Anderson and the Syndicalist Moment
Author/editor:Peter Beilharz
Year published:2015
'Who was John Anderson? Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1927-1958, Anderson was arguably one of the most influential of local intellectuals in modern Australian history. Yet he wrote little: no single book; he lectured and persuaded at a time when the university on…
A First Place (Reviews)
Author/editor:David Malouf
Year published:2014
A First Placeby John Uhr Australian writer David Malouf is famously 80 years old this year. He has been celebrated often, with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation treating him like the public intellectual we need to have. Most of these celebrations are about what we as a community value…
Reforming the ‘dog’s breakfast of federalism': why the Commonwealth can’t have its cake and eat it too
Author/editor: Tracy Beck Fenwick
Year published:2014
Upon reading Issue Paper 1, “Reform of the Federation” (Commonwealth, 2014) and based upon the terms of references of the White Paper itself, it does not seem evident that there is any real intention or attention being given to actually distributing power to the States and Territories, and local…
Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric
Author/editor:John Uhr|Ryan Walter
Year published:2014
This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases the variety of methods available for studying political speech, including historical, theoretical, institutional, and linguistic…
The politics of education for globalisation: managed activism in a time of crisis
Author/editor:April Biccum
Year published:2014
Since the 1990s, governments of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have begun to promote their foreign aid politics domestically via global education. This policy remit has its origins in civil society and has been combined with a stated aim on the part of…
Conflict to Peace: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland Over Half a Century
Author/editor:Bernadette C. Hayes |Ian McAllister
Year published:2013
After three decades of violence, Northern Ireland has experienced unprecedented peace. This book examines the impact of the 1998 Agreement which halted the violence on those most affected by it – the Northern Ireland people themselves. Using public opinion surveys conducted over half a century,…
English Nationalism and Euroscepticism Losing the Peace
Author/editor:Ben Wellings
Year published:2013
English Nationalism and Euroscepticism Losing the Peace seeks out the origins of contemporary English nationalism. Whilst much academic and political attention has been given to England's place within the United Kingdom since devolution, the author argues that recent English nationalism actually…
Social Movements in Global Politics
Author/editor:David West
Year published:2013
Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling…
Amanda Tattersall - 'Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change' (Reviews)
Author/editor: Amanda Tattersall
Year published:2012
Through a thorough analysis of case studies in Australian, the United States and Canada, Dr Tattersall addresses what she terms the unions’ “crisis of power” through their creative engagement with other civil society organisations in seeking to go beyond advancing traditional union goals and wages…
Mungo MacCallum - The Good, the Bad & and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers (Reviews)
Author/editor: Mungo MacCallum
Year published:2012
MacCallum thinks that in recent years the 'most significant' leaders have been those who were 'the most courageous, the ones who burst through the roadblocks not only in society but within their own parties'. Examples are Gorton, Whitlam and Keating. These are called the 'heroes', often unsung in…