Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently the East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of government from the autocratic Soeharto regime to one democratically elected and under the leaders…
In Australian politics today a new free market Right holds the ascendancy in ideas, while Labor and the Left struggle with a crisis of belief. David McKnight makes a compelling argument that the new Right has a radical agenda, not a conservative one. He shows how this drives some of the most vexed issues of our time: overconsumption, work-family balance, immigration and the environment. McKn…
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washingto…
This goes beyond political platitudes to examine reality and opportunity in Australia's place in Asia, and in doing so it reveals the essence of a game so simple that it touches the human core of life in every nation of this region.
This is an account of Japan's submarine war against Australia during 1942-44. It is a story of a campaign which was far more serious and extensive than anyone in Australia knew at the time. Nearly 40 war patrols were made to Australian waters: Sydney was attacked by midget submarines, Sydney and Newcastle were shelled, spy planes flew over Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart, 17 ships were sunk off th…
Australians who live in the cities about our W southern coastlines see and out our part, nothing but what we call the European way of life -a way of life uprooted and transplanted by succeeding generations of migrants to an alien land. To them as to us it was a new country, with unlimited potentialities, to which we brought our cultural patterns, our modes of behaviour, our form of social organ…
The contents of this book: 1. New times, ancient games 2. Japan's big bust and the China boom 3. Japan and China, and Australia's coal and iron ore 4. Many Chinas and mind tricks
The contents of this book: - The inheritance - First things - Politics - 1971 - The new men - A national coalition
The postwar alliance that evolved among Australia, New Zealand and the United States is rarely recognized as having had three distinct although closely related parts: legal basis (the ANZUS treaty); the diplomatic alliance, which is most commonly studied; and the defence relationship. This study provides a description and functional analysis of the long-ignored, but important security relations…
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts and looking for the solutions that are desperately needed? Written with humour, urgency and gre…