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  • Climate Politics in Oceania

    Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World

    by Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, Wesley Morgan ...
    Australia's ambitions for global climate policy leadership have been seriously undermined in recent years, its reputation reduced by political inertia, policy blind spots and diplomatic isolation. At the same time, Pacific Island nations have gained global traction, their leaders recognising the influence of their regional voice and collective action in the drive to shape international law. These ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet

    Labor's Post-Left Future

    by Mark Latham ...
    Series Book 49 - Quarterly Essay
    With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Voice of Reason

    On Recognition and Renewal: Quarterly Essay 90

    by Megan Davis ...
    Series Book 90 - Quarterly Essay
    Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a ‘constitutional moment’ that offers a new vision of AustraliaAt Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming referendum, the nation will decide whether to accept that invitation. In this compelling, fresh and imaginative essay, Megan Davis draws out the significance and the promise of this “constitutional moment” – what it ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • What's the Big Idea?

    30 Years of the Australia Institute

    Edited by Anna Chang, Alice Grundy ...
    Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world outline how we can make change for the betterThe Australia Institute has spent the last 30 years producing research that matters, and this anthology offers fresh thinking about climate action, how to safeguard our democracy, the importance of bravery in policymaking, and how to address some of the biggest issues of our day: from gender-based ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 50 Years Of Asean And Singapore

    by Tommy Koh, Sharon Li-lian Seah, Li Lin Chang ...
    On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is of great importance to Singapore, the region and the world.In 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN in short, was founded by five countries in Southeast Asia which had just gained independence from their former colonial masters, united by a determination for the region to live in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Island Time

    New Zealand's Pacific Futures

    by Damon Salesa ...
    Series Book 64 - BWB Texts
    The task of living in modern New Zealand and especially in modern Auckland is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened.New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Understanding Singapore Politics

    by Bilveer Singh ...
    Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic's domestic politics, the key institutions and issues in the city-state, electoral power as well as the political direction Singapore is likely to take in a post-Lee Kuan Yew era. The specific institutions covered ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Paradox of Parliament

    by Jonathan Malloy ...
    The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues that Parliament labours under two different "logics" of its purpose and primary role: one based on governance and decision-making and one based on representation and voice. This produces a paradox that is common to many ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Boyer Lectures 2012

    The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

    by Marcia Langton ...
    Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns.'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Economics of International Development

    Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor

    by William Easterly, Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell, Christian Bjørnskov, Abigail Hall-Blanco ...
    Foreign aid and overseas military intervention have been important and controversial political topics for over a decade. The government’s controversial target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid has been widely welcomed by some, but strongly criticised by others. Furthermore, the controversy of the Iraq war rumbles on, even today. This is all happening amongst much instability ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Who Won?

    Trade Wars and Australia; Australian Foreign Affairs 26

    Edited by Jonathan Pearlman ...
    Series Book 26 - Australian Foreign Affairs
    "Trump's zero-sum thinking is causing negative-sum outcomes, where everyone loses, and the United States will eventually lose most." Shiro ArmstrongThe twenty-sixth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the decline of global free trade and the emergence of a new economic order in which nations view trade as a tool for gaining strategic advantage.As Donald Trump's tariffs reshape the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD