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Aging and Political Leadership
The final part of this book takes an in-depth look at Ronald Reagan. His advanced age is not unusual in a political leader. Other heads of government in the post-war world have been as old as, or even older than, he when they held office; for example, Churchill, Insn, Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru, Salazar, De Gualle, Kenyatta, Tito, Mao Zedong, Adenauer, and Ulbricht. The large number of names gives the impression that contemporary leadership is gerontocracy. The book is divided into three sections. The fist two examine middle age and old age, with each section offering numerous case studies from a variety of countries.
Life On The Ocean Wave
Encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates were just some of the highlights of eleven long journeys under sail Captain George Bayly made around the world in the early nineteenth century. The journal Captain Bayly kept of his travels is notable for the historical significance of his voyages, and the writer's eye for a good story. It contains eyewitness accounts of the transportation of male and female convicts to Australia, the voyage of British immigrants to the ill-fated settlement attempted by Thomas Peel near Perth, hostilities between Maoris and Europeans, and trading voyages to and from China. Captain Bayly's stories of typhoons, floods, heroic rescues, shipboard quarrels and deaths give the book appeal to a wide audience. The journal's depiction of the infant Australian settlements as just part of a widely-flung network of British colonial outposts in the nineteenth century also provide an insight into the nation's economic development.
Mawson
In the heroic age of polar exploration, Sir Douglas Mawson stands in the first rank. His Antarctic expeditions of 1911-14 and 1929-31 resulted in Australia claiming forty per cent of the sixth continent. The sole survivor of an epic 300-mile trek, Mawson was also a scientist of national stature. His image on banknotes and stamps reflects enduring public esteem. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive, objective biography of this tall, quiet figure. Aside from his two great expeditions, we have known remarkably little about him. Sources exist in profusion. People who knew him socially and professionally from as early as the 1920s are still alive. He kept copies of almost all his corresp...
A Forester's Log
A Forester's Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint-the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late nineteenth century. La Gerche's Letter Books and Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, 'scamps and vagabonds' who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering work helped shape today's forested landscape around the Central Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, 'the home of forestry'. In the detailed correspondence between this ama...
A History of the Port Phillip District
This account of European settlement in the modern state of Victoria, Australia, spans developments from the first convict camp established in 1803 on the Bass Strait to the contemporary separation of the district from New South Wales. Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators, and immigrants figure into this history of Victoria before the gold rush. The stories of such key leaders as John Baton and John Pascoe Fawkner offer insight into the founding of Melbourne, the economic depression and recovery of the 19th century, and the social progress of the 20th century. Details are drawn from primary sources including correspondence between officials in Melbourne, Sydney, and London and newspapers from Batman, Swanston, the Port Phillip Association, and La Trobe.
Equity, Environment, Efficiency
The book offers a timely re-evaluation of the connection between ethics and economics. It argues that efficiency is not an end in itself, but rather a means to socially desirable ends. It's essential reading for all those involved in policy development, housing markets, environment groups, planning and housing departments and local authorities.
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Terra Australis to Australia
How Europeans conceived of the southern continent from ancient times until the beginning of the 19th century, the charting of the coastline and the naming of Australia.
Cultivating the Country
The ten essays and fifty-three photographs in this book together present the case for regionalism in Australia's visual arts. Regionalism is a concept widely embraced in Europe and America but in Australia, where the capital cities have maintained a strong hegemony in most spheres of life, it is only now beginning to be considered. Taking the Regional Galleries of New South Wales as a model, Cultivating the Country examines the rich diversity of arts practice which exists outside the capital cities. It is a vital part of Australian cultural heritage which, until now, has been undervalued. The writers are Peter Skrzynecki, Mary Rose Liverani, Professor Bernard Smith, John McDonald, Beatrice Faust, Michael Bogle, Daniel Thomas, Robyn Williams and Jack Davis. Their essays are beautifully complemented by Gerrit Fokkema's photographs, taken in and around the regional galleries. The result is a lively, though far from uncritical, picture of what it means to be involved in the arts in rural Australia, and the need to appreciate the contribution regional arts make to Australian cultural life and heritage.
Australian Social Security Law, Policy, and Administration
Australia's social security system is the largest item in its federal budget. This book is the first critical study of the history of social security legislation in Australia, the legal structure of the system, and the rules which determine its impact on Australian society.
