Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts.
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship.
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early MelbourneMadame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today.
Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia s sense of nationhood was born from and continues to be defined by experiences of violence.
Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there is a deeply felt absence of scholarship on the way media reporting exacerbates rather than helps to resolve policy problems.
Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there is a deeply felt absence of scholarship on the way media reporting exacerbates rather than helps to resolve policy problems.
Works which have sought to look specifically at the Welsh in Australia have been few in number and characterised by a concentration on prominent individuals and cultural/religious societies, thus excluding many facets of immigrant life.
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 Discover the story of a real-life Captain Ahab of the slave trade, in a landmark book by one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver.
First published eight years ago to enthusiastic reviews and critical acclaim, this classic celebrated readable scholarship is now available in paperback.
Jean-François De Galup, Comte De La Pérouse is second only to James Cook in his historical significance and was the major explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century.
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation's history.
In photographs and words, this beautifully presented book rekindles memories while providing glimpses of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, with its mini-skirts and changing fashions, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Australian group, The Seekers; the loss of a Prime Minister by drowning; the excitement of Kings Cross; the building of the iconic Opera House; the advent of decimal currency; Aboriginal recognition and the changing social patterns, including the arrival of immigrants from the UK and Europe; overseas working holidays for Australians; censorship; sporting successes and the new frontiers in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, with the mineral boom and new towns appearing in the desert.
Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont D'Urville (1790-1842) undertook three global voyages of exploration and is the navigator who made the single greatest contribution to perfecting the map of the Pacific in the nineteenth century.
Less than sixty years after the ships of the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove, John Eyre wrote that Indigenous Australians were 'strangers in their own land'.
The matriarch of Australia's most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the award-winning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story.
When Dalley, a convicts son who became the first Australian Privy Councillor, died in 1888, The Bulletin described him as a man of many splendours, both of intellect and heart, and in many respects the most notable man Sydney has given birth to.
John Forrest DD, the exuberant scholar/priest recruited in Ireland in 1859 to set up the Catholic St John's College at Sydney University, found life in colonial NSW much to his liking.
It's a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly.
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australias political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day.
A rollicking history of Australias amateur naturalists, from settlement to the present A fascinating history of Australia s wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it Compelling and entertaining.
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's historySex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them.
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australias transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who werent going to take it anymore.
