Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Workshop publications arise from the Academy's Workshops Program. The Program's projects are partly or fully sponsored by the Academy. Some publications are published by the Academy and may be ordered from the Academy. Others, published by commercial publishers, may be ordered from respective distributors.
Australia: The State of Democracy
On many criteria, Australia has been a pioneering democracy. As one of the oldest continuing democracies, however, a health check has long been ove...
Edited by Marian Sawer, Norman Abjorensen and Phil Larkin
2009
Political theory and Australian multiculturalism
Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by,...
Edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey
2008
Hate speech and freedom of speech in Australia
Hate speech laws have existed in various forms in Australia for well over a decade. Unlike other countries, such as the United States and Canada, ...
Edited by Katharine Gelber and Adrienne Stone
2007
Migration Challenges in the Asia Pacific Region in the Twenty-First Century
Trans-Asian labour migration, a defining feature of Asian globalisation prior to 1940, comprised mainly Chinese and Indian emigration to Southeast...
Edited by Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
2007
Risking birth: culture, technology and politics in 21st century maternity care
This special issue of Health Sociology Review (ISBN 0-977524-25-6) is based on a workshop held in Sydney in June 2006 which was sponsored ...
Edited by Kerreen Reiger, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Karen Lane
2006
Participation And Governance in Regional Development: Global Trends in an Australian Context
Questions about participation and participatory governance are at the cutting edge of development theory. This book provides a cross-disciplinary ...
Edited by Robyn Eversole, John Martin
2006
Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing and Security Networks
Whether they want to or not, police are increasingly having to work with and through many local, national and international partnerships. This edit...
Edited by Jenny Fleming, Jennifer Dawn Wood
2006
Mortgage nation: the 2004 Australian election
This comprehensive study of the historic win by the Howard Coalition Government is the fourth collaborative venture between Marian Simms and John W...
Edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst
2005
Australian Social Attitudes: The First Report
A fascinating insight into what Australians think about contemporary political and social issues using data collected from the inaugural Australia...
Edited by Shaun Wilson, Gabrielle Meagher, Rachel Gibson, David Denemark, Mark Western
2005
Labour market deregulation: Rewriting the rules
Keith Hancock is honoured and celebrated in this work, following the significant contributions he made not only to academic research and teaching,...
Edited by Joe Isaac and Russell D Lansbury
2005
Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change in Australia
Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change In Australia charts ‘the changes that have occurred in the way motherhood and paid...
Edited by Patricia Grimshaw and John Murphy
2005
Ethics and Auditing
Accountancy and auditing are complex and technical processes. Ethics, in contrast, might be considered relatively simple. The difficult part of et...
Edited by Tom Campbell and Keith Houghton
2004
Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia
That gilded youth Lachlan Murdoch, delivering the Andrew Ollie Lecture in late 2002, singled out <...
Edited by Marian Sawer And Barry Hindess
2004
Litigation, Past And Present
Litigation, Past and Present examines the historical and contemporary dimensions of litigation, taking a cross-disciplinary and comparative perspe...
Edited by Wilfrid Prest and Sharyn L. Roach Anleu
2004
South Asia - globalisation and Bangladesh: labour and environmental issues
Edited by Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
2003
Investing in our children: developing a research agenda
Investing in our Children: Developing a Research Agenda, is the outcome of a workshop in the Academy of the Social Sciences program held a...
Edited by Margot Prior
2002
Working futures
The changing nature of work and employment relations in Australia
Working Futures examines the radical changes which are transforming the nature of work and employment relations in Australia.
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Edited by Ron Callus and Russell Lansbury
2002
Howard's agenda: the 1998 Australian elections
Australian federal politics at the turn of the century is a contest between two leaders, John Howard and Kim Beazley. The major political issue rem...
Edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst
2000
The ESD process: evaluating a policy experiment
The ESD (Ecologically Sustainable Development) process was one of the most extensive and far-reaching policy experiments ever undertaken in Austral...
Edited by Clive Hamilton and David Throsby
1998
The politics of retribution: the 1996 Federal election
The only detailed account of the progress and results of the 1996 federal election
In 1993 Labor won the unwinnable election, during 'the r...
Edited by C Bean, S Bennett, M Simms and J Warhurs
1997
Cultural policy in Australia
Culture and Policy', Vol.8, No.1
Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and pr...
Edited by T Bennett, P Sperritt and D Throsby
1997
China's new spatial economy: moving towards 2020
As China becomes more and more market-oriented, the spatial development dilemmas it encounters are more and more like those one finds in capitalist...
Edited by GJR Linge
1997
No place for borders
The HIV/AIDS epidemic and development in Asia and the Pacific
HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly in Asia and the Pacific region. Within a decade it will be the epicentre of this disease, yet world attention continu...
Edited by Godfrey Linge and Doug Porter
1997
The paradox of parties
Australian political parties in the 1990s
Is the Australian political system in crisis? The Paradox of Parties argues that despite the many claims that our party system is overloaded and in...
Edited by Marian Simms
1996
Economics and ethics?
In December 1994, social scientists from the fields of economics, philosophy, political science and anthropology attended a workshop to discuss the...
Edited by Edited by P. Groenewegen
1996
Pacific Rim development
Integration and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific economy
This book stems from a workshop on global-local relations in the Pacific and is part of a growing contribution by Australasian geographers to under...
Edited by PJ Rimmer
1996
The making of a public intellectual
J Mulvaney, the humanities and public policy
Who are public intellectuals? Why do they matter? What is the difference between an academic and an intellectual? Prehistory to Politics explores ...
Edited by T Bonyhady and T Griffiths
1996
Communication futures in Australia
Selected papers published in 'Prometheus', 14(1), June 1996
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1996
The discovery of Australian history 1890-1939
By examining the work of particular historians in a range of different circumstances, this book looks at the growth of history as a profession in A...
Edited by S Macintyre and J Thomas
1995
Women in a restructuring Australia: work and welfare
Restructuring in the global economy over the past two decades has brought major changes to Australia. This restructuring has had profound effects u...
Edited by Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey
1995
Mortgage nation: the 2004 Australian election
In their introduction and overview Simms and Warhurst provide a comprehensive account of politics between the 2001 and 2004 elections, including the delicate balancing act in the Senate, the impact of external factors, like the US Alliance, and internal factors like the troubled state of the Labor Party; and conclude with an analysis of the surprising aftermath of the election.
Edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst, 2005
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