Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote, self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856), Victoria (1857), and New South Wales (1858). Australia permanently ...democratised without a violent revolution, and at a very early time. In 1851–1858, local parliaments in the British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia gave all men the vote, including Aboriginal and Chinese men, the secret ballot, and self-government of local affairs. Britain approved, this book examines the parliamentary debate which led to these radical democracies. Debates covered voting eligibility, the secret ballot, the upper house of parliament, equal electorates, multiple voting, illiterate voters, control of Crown lands, terms of parliament, payment of members, and separation of Church and State. British parliamentary tradition was combined with the advanced liberal thinking of the time, Chartism with the British constitution. The democratisation of 1851–1858 in the three largest Australian colonies was as fundamental to Australian prosperity as the ‘mixed’ market economy. This is a vital text for scholars of democracy as well as those interested in Australian Studies, Australian History, Political Science, Constitutional Law, and the building blocks of first-world prosperity.
Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from ...case book method to the 50-minute lecture. And it can challenge a contemporary overemphasis on screen-based learning, particularly when those screens only provide information and require no interaction. Australian Clinical Legal Education comes out of a thorough research program and offers the essential guidebook for anyone seeking to design and redesign accountable legal education; that is, education that does not just transform the learner, but also inculcates in future lawyers a compassion for and service of those whom the law ought to serve. Established law teachers will come to grips with the power of clinical method. Law students struggling with overly dry conceptual content will experience the connections between skills, the law and real life. Regulators will look again at law curricula and ask law deans ‘when’?
Australian Universities: A conversation about public
good highlights contemporary challenges facing Australian
universities and offers new ideas for expanding public good.
More than 20 experts take ...up the debate about our public
universities: who they are for; what their mission is (or should
be); what strong higher education policy entails; and how to
cultivate a robust and constructive relationship between government
and Australian universities. Issues covered include:
- How to change a culture of exclusion to ensure all are welcome
in universities, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
students as well as those from low socio-economic backgrounds. -
How "educational disadvantage" in Australia often begins in school
and is still the major barrier to full university participation. -
The reality that funding for research and major infrastructure
requires significant additional funds from non-government sources
(e.g. international student fees). - A lack of policy recognition
that international university students increase Australia's social,
cultural and economic capital. - Pathways to making policy
decisions wide-ranging, consultative, inclusive and inspired rather
than politically partisan and ideologically driven. - The impact of
COVID-19 on universities, and particularly how the pandemic and
governmental responses exacerbated extant and emerging issues.
Australian Universities rekindles a much-needed
conversation about the vital role of public universities in our
society, arguing for initiatives informed by the realities of
university life and offering a way forward for government,
communities, students and public universities - together - to
advance public good.
This controversial book is a survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulty, and a crucial pointer to how to move forward from ...this point.
With lucid appraisals of key debates such as NAGPRA, Kennewick and the repatriation of Tasmanian artefacts, Laurajane Smith dissects the nature and consequences of this clash of cultures.
Smith explores how indigenous communities in the USA and Australia have confronted the pre-eminence of archaeological theory and discourse in the way the material remains of their past are cared for and controlled, and how this has challenged traditional archaeological thought and practice.
Essential reading for all those concerned with developing a just and equal dialogue between the two parties, and the role of archaeology in the research and management of their heritage.
1. Introduction 2 . The Cultural Politics of Identity: Defining the Problem 3. Archaeological Theory and the 'Politics' of the Past 4. Archaeology and the Context of Governance: Expertise and the State 5. Archaeological Stewardship: The Rise of Cultural Resource Management and the 'Scientific Professional' arcHaeologist 6. Significance Concepts and the Embedding of Processual Discourse in Cultural Resource Management 7. The Role of Legislation in the Governance of Material Culture in America and Australia 8. NAGPRA and Kennewick: Contesting Archaeological Govrnance in America 9. The 'Death of Archaeology': Contesting Archaeological Covernance in Australia 10. Conclusion
Laurajane Smith is Lecturer in cultural heritage studies and archaeology at the University of York, UK. She previously taught Indigenous Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and worked as a cultural heritage consultant for many years. Her research interests include heritage and the construction and negotiation of cultural and social identities, and public policy and heritage management, archaeological theory and politics, feminist archaeology.
'Essential reading ... Well-written and easy to follow ... a useful companion volume.' - Rodney Harrison, The Australian National University
'Laurajane Smith has produced a significant work that will hopefully stimulate archaeological departments in South African universities to pay more attention to educating future CRM practitioners. This book is compulsory reading for CRM practitioners, archaeology students and their professors alike.' – South African Archaeological Bulletin
South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through
the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai
and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo
and ...beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese
people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in their own
words.
This unique book was written by an insider. Mavis Yen was born
in Perth in 1916, the daughter of a Chinese father and an
Australian mother. She lived in both countries and understood what
it meant to navigate two worlds, to live through war and
revolution, and to experience racial discrimination. In the 1980s
she began interviewing elderly Chinese Australians, recording hours
of conversations. Her intimate understanding of their languages and
life experiences encouraged them to share their stories. Published
here for the first time, they will change how you think about
Australian history.
"This is a book that offers a new way to be Australian in this
country, and casts Chinese Australians as the protagonists in their
own stories… When people agree to tell their stories, they speak to
the future. Whether or not we listen is up to us." - Dr Sophie
Loy-Wilson, University of Sydney
The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian
cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This
book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their
Gothic ...resemblances, characteristics and meanings. By concentrating
on the occurrence of Gothic motifs, characters, landscapes and
narratives, it argues for the recognition and relevance of a
coherent Gothic heritage in Australian film. A plethora of Gothic
representatives are considered in relation to four consistent and
illuminating continuities (images of the family, ideas of
monstrosity, generic hybridity and the occurrence of the sublime),
and this study debates the appearance and asserts the significance
of Australian Gothic films within their national, cultural,
literary and cinematic traditions.
In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in
three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider
conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya
and Borneo, ...Australian forces encountered new types of warfare,
integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest
continual overseas deployments in Australia's history. Working
closely with its allies, Australia also trained for a large
conventional war in Southeast Asia, while a significant percentage
of the defence force guarded the Papua New Guinea-Indonesian
border. At home, the Defence organisation grappled with new threats
and military expansion, while the Australian Security Intelligence
Organisation defended the nation from domestic and foreign threats.
This book examines this crucial part of Australia's security
history, so often overlooked as merely a precursor to the Vietnam
War. It addresses key questions such as how did Australia achieve
its security goals at home and in the region in this new Cold War
environment? What were the experiences of the services, units and
individuals serving in Southeast Asia? How did this period shape
Australia's defence for years to come?
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