Publications
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Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
(2008)
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic ...
Negotiating the Sacred
(2006)
Religion; Sociology; Blasphemy; Sacrilege; Offenses against religion
New Directions for Law in Australia
(2017)
For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, ...
Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific
(2005)
Constitutional law; Constitutions; Government; Oceania
Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea
(2022)
That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the ...
Corruption: Expanding the Focus
(2012)
Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption, resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study ...
Ethics and Auditing
(2005)
Auditing; Moral; Ethics
Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye
(2011)
From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Māori women became nationally or internationally renowned. Few reached the heights of international fame accorded Evonne Goolagong or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and few remained ...
Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics
(2017)
Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the ...
Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji
(2008)
May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s ...
Corruption and Anti-Corruption
(2013)
There is new international attention being given to the old problem of corruption. It has been taken up by international organisations, and driven by economic analysis. It is impatient of cultural justifications, and ...
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
(2008)
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing ...
New Worlds from Below: Informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first-century Northeast Asia
(2017)
In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region’s democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst ...
Developing Asian Bondmarkets
(2014)
The absence of vibrant bondmarkets in East Asia was a significant contributor to the 1997–98 financial crisis. Ever since, the development of local bondmarkets has been a major objective of financial reforms in many East ...
Crisis Policymaking: Australia and the East Timor Crisis of 1999
(2010)
East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening ...
Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
(2010)
This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ...
Land and Life in Timor-Leste
(2011)
Following the historic 1999 popular referendum, East Timor emerged as the first independent sovereign nation of the 21st Century. The years since these momentous events have seen an efflorescence of social research across ...
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes
(2006)
Aboriginal australian; Social conditions; Economic conditions
Public Policy: Why ethics matters
(2010)
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, ...
The Chinese Economic Transformation
(2019)
"The Chinese Economic Transformation, the 19th volume in the China Update book series, provides an opportunity for young economists to share their views on various issues relating to the Chinese economic transformation. ...