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Studies in Australian political rhetoric
This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases the variety of methods available for studying political speech, including historical, theoretical, institutional, and linguistic analyses, and demonstrates the centrality of language use to democratic politics. The chapters reveal errors in rhetoric…
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- 9781925021868
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- 320.014 STU s
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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- 9781920942960
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- XXVII, 314 p.
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- 994.01 ULM c
The information systems academic discipline in Australia
This book represents the second phase of a multi-method, multi-study of the ‘Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia’. Drawing on Whitley’s Theory of Scientific Change, the study analysed the degree of ‘professionalisation’ of the Information Systems Discipline, the overarching research question being ‘To what extent is Information Systems a distinct and mature discipli…
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- 9781921313943
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- XXVII, 346
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- 004.6 INF i
Long history, deep time. Deepening histories of place
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia’s human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened in the same places where we walk today. Yet, they were not th…
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- 9781925022520
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- 241 p.; 22 cm.
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- 994.0049915 LON l
Survey analysis for indigenous policy in Australia: social science perspectives
Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments ‘closing
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- 9781922144195
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- xxii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- Research monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Australian National University) ; no. 32
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- 305.89915 HUN s
Creative business in Australia : learnings from the creative industries innov…
As the largest ever Australian government investment in creative industries development, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre delivered tailored business services to more than 1500 creative businesses from 2009 to 2015 and provided industry intelligence and advice for public policy and peak sectoral activity. This collection gives an overview of the current ‘state of business’ in Austr…
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- 9780992451820
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- 260 p.
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- 338.477 CRE c
Contemporary Australian literature
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian L…
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- 978174332437
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- 820.8092 BIR c
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- 9781760461614
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- XXVI, 499 p.
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- 919.429 ARC a
Australian indigenous knowledge and libraries
In response to significant changes in the Indigenous information landscape, the State Library of New South Wales and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, hosted a colloquium, Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge, in December 2004. The two-day colloquium brought together professionals, practitioners and academics to discuss future directions in relation to…
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- 9780980284010
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- V, 179 p.
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- 027.630899915 AUS a
Contested Terrain: reconceptualising security in the Pacific contested terrain
Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of security narratives, justified by different ideological, political, cultural and economic rationales. This is important in a complex and ever-changing situation involving a dynamic interplay between local, regional and global factors. Security nar…
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- 9781760463199
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- viii, 295p.
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- 355.03305 RAT c
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