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Books, publishing and book reviews. (Editorial).
THERE HAS BEEN for years an unedifying campaign of self-interested propaganda mounted by local publishers, writers, and their friends in the international book publishing industry against the proposed government legislation to permit parallel imports of books into Australia. This legislation is the latest development in the critique first mounted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (and its predecessor in this matter, the Prices Surveillance Authority) of the way in which local consumers of recordings and books have been ripped off by their respective industries for years. Doonhgloom and disaster are always the predictions of the rip-off merchants, as ...
- Human Resource Management in Australia.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Labour & Industry Poon, Teresa Shuk-Ching August 1, 2004 700+ words
...HRM issues facing Australia. One of the major strengths of the book lies in the fact...strength of the book is the clearly...within which HRM in Australia is based and implemented...recent past. As the book is an HRM text on Australia, the authors have...
- Sustainability and change in rural Australia.(book)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Rural Society Vanclay, Frank March 22, 2005 700+ words
...with the Monash Regional Australia Project. The first book, Community sustainability in rural Australia: A question of capital...rural communities in Australia' (p. 2). Unfortunately...perhaps predictably, the book is short on answers but...
- Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies Robinson, Shirleene June 1, 2003 700+ words
...nineteenth-century Western Australia. The title of the book is most apt, as Hetherington...children in colonial Western Australia. This book is divided into two parts...popular refrain in Western Australia. One book can only cover so much information...
- Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Moore, Clive September 1, 2007 700+ words
...Contact in North Australia. By Regina Ganter...University of Western Australia Press, 2006...Australian history books look north from...Regina Ganter's book looks south from...community and books on the short...While Ganter's book was being researched...citizenship in northern ...
- Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: the passage to Australia.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society McIntyre, Perry December 1, 2006 700+ words
...is her second major book on Australia immigration; the first...I recommend this book in particular to those...aspect of the voyage to Australia. There is something...for having produced a book on immigration to Australia and hope it encourages...
- Climate Law in Australia.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Environmental Education Sydes, Brendan January 1, 2008 700+ words
...will hopefully also result in a book in a similar format to this...an historical analysis, the book is a useful overview of legal and policy developments in Australia over the last 30 years. As...years to the extent that this book is now able to claim that there...
- David Day, Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Labour History - A Journal of Labour and Social History Anderson, Bill May 1, 2009 700+ words
...more like a footnote in Australia's history rather than...surprising, that the book under review is the first...significant figures in Australia history, Gough Whitlam...by the prevalent White Australia ideology that he adopted...reviewers of Day's book have found it rather...
- Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional...
- Magazine article from: Rural Society Vanclay, Frank June 22, 2001 700+ words
...conclusion, the book will be sure to...contributors are amongst Australia's leading writers...rural and regional Australia' (p 2). The book concludes that...textbook about rural Australia. Rural diversity...throughout this book' (p 220), but...
Source: HighBeam Research, Books, publishing and book reviews. (Editorial).