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Border's Battlers

Author : Michael Sexton
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1925972321
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Border's Battlers written by Michael Sexton and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It?s the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement and rebel tours. Few give Australia a chance against a surging India, and even Allan Border doubts his ability to lead this team. What follows is one of the most titanic struggles in cricket history. Played in oppressive conditions, the first Test in Madras (now Chennai) swung like a pendulum. Tensions reached boiling point on and off the field. Dean Jones?s 210 was one of the gutsiest Australian knocks ever, Greg Matthews bowled for most of the final day (in a jumper!) and Ray Bright took five wickets despite being seriously ill. The climactic and controversial final ball forced a tie for only the second time in Test history and set a course for Allan Border to remain as captain. In Border?s Battlers, Michael Sexton details the momentous occasion when Australia drew a line in the dust of Madras, and drew inspiration from the fight. The team returned to Madras the next year to launch a winning World Cup campaign as rank outsiders and the seeds of a new golden age of Australian cricket were sown.

The Battlers

Author : Kylie Tennant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780207183676
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Battlers written by Kylie Tennant and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue to tie in with a TV series adaption. Novel first published in 1941, set in the Depression years and telling the story of two young people travelling around Australia seeking work. It was awarded the S H Prior Memorial Prize and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. The author was made an AO in 1980 and is well-known for such novels as 'The Honey Flour' and 'Ride on Stranger'.

Battlers and Billionaires

Author : Andrew Leigh
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231045
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Battlers and Billionaires written by Andrew Leigh and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.

Patriots

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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702242233
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Patriots written by and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's environmental movement and those defending the unique wildlife Down Under are superbly examined in this powerful account. Charting the emergence of a new national green movement and its members' commitment to nature's survival, this exploration details the landmark environmental battles already faced as well as those lurking on the horizon.

Green Bans, Red Union

Author : Meredith Burgmann
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868407609
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Green Bans, Red Union written by Meredith Burgmann and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Green Bans, Red Union documents the development of a union that took a stand on a number of social issues. Apart from the green bans movement, union members also used their industrial power to defend the rights of oppressed groups, such as Aborigines, women and homosexuals. In telling the colourful story that inspired many environmentalists and ordinary citizens - and gave the word 'green' an entirely new meaning - Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann open a window on a period when Australian workers led the world in innovative and stunningly effective forms of environmental protest."--BOOK JACKET.

The Viceroy

Author : David Downey
Publisher : David Downey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viceroy written by David Downey and published by David Downey. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A civil war rages in our galaxy. To further their war aims, the TeraGon, a manufactured warrior race, attempts to capture Earth. And to thwart their plans, the Order, the TeraGons’ former masters and now their foes, appoint 13-year-old Mark Numan as his world’s sole Guardian. But Mark quickly learns the TeraGons aren’t his only enemy. And the Earth proves not to be just another world to be conquered but is crucial to the fate of the galaxy, and even the entire multiverse!

The March of Patriots

Author : Paul Kelly
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522857388
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The March of Patriots written by Paul Kelly and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia, this record presents these two personalities as conviction politicians, tribal warriors, and national interest patriots. Divided by belief, temperament, and party, they were united by generation, city, and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalized age. The making of policy and the uses of power are explored, capturing the authentic nature of Australian politics as distinct from the polemics advanced by both sides. Focusing on how these prime ministers altered the nation's direction, this study also depicts how they redefined their parties and struggled over Australia's new economic, social, cultural, and foreign policy agendas. A sequel to the author’s bestselling The End of Certainty, this survey is based on more than 100 interviews with the two key players as well as other politicians, advisers, and public servants.

Resourceful Reading

Author : Katherine Bode
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743321171
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Resourceful Reading written by Katherine Bode and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides the first comprehensive account of eResearch and the new empiricism as they are transforming the field of Australian literary studies in the twenty-first century.

Overland

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Overland written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Good Government

Author : Laura Tingle
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925435636
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Good Government written by Laura Tingle and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2016 Walkley Award for Long Feature Writing With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Australia, Laura Tingle's calm, perceptive analysis is more relevant than ever. What has happened to good government? Can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past to put things right? When leaders surf the wave of discontentment all the way to power, how do they deal with our great expectations? In her crisp, profound and witty essays, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. In Political Amnesia, she ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of the internet age. In Great Expectations, Tingle argues that governments can do less since deregulating the economy, but they still talk like they can do more, and we still expect them to do more – leading to anger, frustration and disengagement. In Search of Good Government also contains a major new essay that analyses Turnbull's leadership and brings the story up to date. 'This is precisely the kind of political journalism we don't get to see often enough.' Sydney Morning Herald

Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations

Author : Laura Tingle
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870648
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations written by Laura Tingle and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider that has remained constant even as the world has changed. Now we are an angry nation, and the Age of Entitlement is coming to an end. What will a different politics look like? And, Tingle asks, even if a leader surfs the wave of anger all the way to power, what answer can be given to our great expectations? “It is wrong to see the anger of the last few years as a ‘one-off,’ which might go away at the next election. The things we are angry about betray the changes that have been taking place over recent decades. Politicians no longer control interest rates, the exchange rate, or wages, prices or industries that were once protected or even owned by government. Voters are confused about what politicians can do for them in such a world.” —Laura Tingle, Great Expectations

Witnessing Australian Stories

Author : Kelly Jean Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351471481
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Witnessing Australian Stories written by Kelly Jean Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians—politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transaction's critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.

Fault Lines Exposed

Author : Scott Baum
Publisher : Monash University ePress
ISBN 13 : 097574755X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Fault Lines Exposed written by Scott Baum and published by Monash University ePress. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and economic change in Australia has resulted in the emergence of disparities in advantage and disadvantage between metropolitan communities and regional localities, towns and cities. This book uses up-to-date data to re-analyse the patterns, and consider policy issues that arise.

Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain

Author : Paul Betts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031592948
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain written by Paul Betts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian English - The National Language

Author : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311090487X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Australian English - The National Language written by Gerhard Leitner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like? How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world? Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language? Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed. This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status. The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.

Power, Profit and Protest

Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000246825
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Power, Profit and Protest written by Verity Burgmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a provocative must-read text for an engaged public, offering a distinctive Australian take on corporate globalism, and grounding this in a robust theory of social change that emphasises material power and interests, along with symbolic power and ideology' James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney Social movements transformed Western societies in the 1960s and 1970s: feminism, black rights, the peace movement and gay liberation all radically altered how we think and how we live. What has happened to social movements since then? Can demonstrations and other forms of social activism still make a difference in Australia? Verity Burgmann argues that corporate globalisation has threatened or transformed established social movements, and sparked powerful new forms of social protest. She examines the impact of globalisation and neo-liberal government policies on the feminist and indigenous rights movements, showing how they have been affected by the politics of backlash after decades of success. She explores the way in which the environment movement, too, has been affected by rising corporate political influence. She also analyses the emergence of anti-capitalist and anti-corporate activism and the profound challenges posed by this newest of social movements to the state, to society in general and to the labour movement in particular. These important factors in a changing political landscape. This book reflects on the significant changes which has taken place since Power and Protest was published in 1993.

Parliamentary Debates

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: