Books in the Academic Monographs series

When will the 'education revolution' really begin? Is the nation ready for the challenges of the global knowledge economy and the emerging centres of innovation around the world? What are the key problems and where are the policy solutions? This title addresses these questions.

Presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'. This title maps the many opportunities for communities large and small, local and international, making the transition to a low carbon economy.

In the rush to avoid or reduce the repercussions of climate change, we need to ensure that the burden is evenly distributed or run the risk of creating injustice. This book demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the costs of climate change is fundamentally a problem of justice.

Corporate governance may be guided in the pursuit of particular interests by many influences, including law, politics, capital and labour and other pressure groups. How these competing pressures balance out varies enormously from state to state. This title offers a contribution to these complex issues.

From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. The author goes beyond the propaganda of the era to reveal for the first time the true causes of waterfront unrest. It captures the drama of the waterfront under Robert Menzies.

A study of work placement, this book looks at the experience of 50 short-term trainees in various Australian work settings. Based on interviews with trainees in business, education, engineering, IT and nursing, it reveals the issues, challenges and rewards for undergraduates beginning to make the transition to work in their chosen profession.

The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history. This book examines the place of school history in these disputes over the past, and suggests their partisan historical divide is complicated in the schools arena, where debate has been increasingly contested over 'our children', the nation's future.

The radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (16/9/1911-27/9/1983) was persecuted by the Australian government during his lifetime and publicly reviled in print long after his death. This biography of a controversial foreign correspondent explores the truth behind Burchett's reports from his travels on the other side of the ideological divide.

A comprehensive collection of original papers and essays that document the establishment and rise of the discipline of sociology in Australia and New Zealand. It focuses on the major themes, debates and controversies in Australian sociology. It is of interest to sociologists and other scholars in the social sciences.

An account of the development of the parliamentary committee system in Australia from 1970 to 2006. It explores the implications the system has for both governance and careers of parliamentarians. It examines the different roles of House of Representative and Senate committees.

A work about conflict between a country with limits to its international influence - Australia - and an international actor with enormous presence on the world stage - the European Union. It offers an examination of Australia's relationship with the powerful EU and provides a fresh perspective on politics and trade, old security and new security.

Pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F B (Barry) Smith. This title brings together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma and Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy.

Brings together a major essay on Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and several significant studies of particular aspects of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister's long career. This work also includes an analyses of the development of historical research in Australia.

Contains contributions from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America including Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, Paul Chartrand and Noel Pearson. This book also covers topics as diverse as treaty and agreement making in Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia.

Addresses the major gap in film scholarship - the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. This title argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical.