The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
Title | The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Aroney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 697 |
Release | 2015-09-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0521759188 |
This book provides an engaging and distinctive treatment for anyone seeking to understand the significance and interpretation of the Constitution.
The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth
Title | The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth PDF eBook |
Author | Sir John Quick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1056 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Year Book Australia, 1988, No. 71
Title | Year Book Australia, 1988, No. 71 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Aust. Bureau of Statistics |
Pages | 1044 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Australian Politics and Government
Title | Australian Politics and Government PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Moon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003-02-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521532051 |
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A Commonwealth of Thieves
Title | A Commonwealth of Thieves PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Keneally |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2007-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 140007956X |
In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony’s governor, Arthur Phillips. Using personal journals and documents, Keneally re-creates the hellish overseas voyage and the challenges Phillips faced upon arrival: unruly convicts, disgruntled officers, bewildered and hostile natives, food shortages, and disease. He also offers captivating portrayals of Aborigines and of convict settlers who were determined to begin their lives anew. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up the thrills and hardships of those first four improbable years.
Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity
Title | Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Halvorson |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2019-01-01 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN | 1760463248 |
Australia's engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non-communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington's de-escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America's Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia's political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.
An Uneasy Relationship
Title | An Uneasy Relationship PDF eBook |
Author | Maev O'Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 9780689311239 |
The situation of Norfolk Island, as a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, is one of the historical anomalies in governance, which has persisted since 1914. Many of the issues raised in the early years after Federation have a striking immediacy and relevance. Even now they try to maintain their socio-political identity.