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“stephen garton”

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  • Out of Luck

    Poor Australians and social welfare 1788-1988

    by Stephen Garton ...
    'The distribution of wealth is far more equal. To begin with, there is no poor class in the colonies. Comfortable incomes are in the majority, millionaires few and far between.'This opinion, voiced a century ago by a British journalist on a tour of the colonies, sums up the widely-held and long-lived view that Australia was a working man's paradise, an egalitarian society free of the poverty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Histories of Sexuality

    Antiquity to Sexual Revolution

    by Stephen Garton ...
    A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Preserving the Past

    The University of Sydney and the Unified National System of Higher Education, 1987–96

    by Julia Horne, Stephen Garton ...
    The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across the nation over fears for the academic enterprise and Australia's system of free, public university education. With much at stake, the Dawkins reforms became a hot topic of discussion across university campuses, and even between Vice-Chancellors and state education ... Read more

    $16.60 USD

  • The Cost of War

    War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture

    by Professor Stephen Garton ...
    The achievements of Australian servicemen and women have played a central role in shaping Australia's national identity. While we rightly commemorate the sacrifices of Australians in war, we have ignored those who returned to Australia and their struggles to reintegrate into society. The Cost of War: War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture focuses on the Anzacs who returned from the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Waiting for Gonski

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  • Maori and the State

    Crown–Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950–2000

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    Presenting the most recent research and written by an expert in the field, this examination explores the principal interrelationships between the British Crown and the Maori people in the 1950s and 1960s when Crown assimilation policies intensified—and during the 1970s—when the pressure of the Maori renaissance encouraged policies and goals based on biculturalism. A subject central to New Zealand ... Read more

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  • The Political Bubble

    Why Australians Don't Trust Politics

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  • Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    Old Institutions, New Challenges

    by Stewart Jackson, Joff Lelliott, Shannon Brincat, Josephine Bourne, Nick Economou ...
    The global political environment in the twenty-first century is proving dynamic and challenging for Australian policymakers and political institutions. Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens. It examines the legislative and judicial bodies, minor parties, lobby groups, the media and the citizenry, providing ... Read more

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    Debts and Legacies

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    Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

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