... peoples and its lack of female representation. The essay goes on to critique Australia's lack of maturity in accepting its geographical location in the Southern Hemisphere. The overall critique, however, is balanced with a suggested alternative governance system based on the classic thinking of Australian...

...Donald G. Baker Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Australia and America The Refracted Image Donald G. Baker The miniskirt is virtually dead in America, a victim of fashion s whimsical designs and barbarous assault upon aesthetics. For the moment, though, the mini lives...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION IN AUSTRALIA: THE CASE OF THE CLOTHING TRADES AWARD Frank T. de Fyver WAGES AND MOST OTHER CONDITIONS of employ­ ment in Australia are established by compulsory arbitration rather than by collective...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Concept of Wages in Australia Frank T. de Vyver Hidden away in decisions of arbitration courts, commissions, and panels are concepts of fair and proper wages. Orders of the Australian Commonwealth Arbitration Commission reveal...

...Richard H. Leach Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Metropolitan Area Problems and Solutions in Australia Richard H. Leach i Despite its huge territory and its relatively small population, Aus­ tralia is one of the world s most metropolitan countries. The people of Australia have...

...Conrad Joyner Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 SOUTH ATLANTIC AUSTRALIA: IMPRESSIONS OF A VISITOR Conrad Joyner HE CHOICE of Australia as the site for the Olympic games was the signal for a great outpouring of articles in the popular press about Australia and its people...

...Donald C. Gordon Australia’s Colonial Culture . By Nadel George . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. 295 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 143 Despite a few errors in details and some inadequately supported...

...L. A. Triebel Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 L. A. Triebel WALTER MURDOCH Australia s premier essayist Recently Walter Murdoch, Australia s best-known man of letters, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday. Bom in Scotland in 1874, he came to Melbourne as a small boy...

...Fiona Paisley This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed...

...Chris Cunneen The processes of criminalization lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring...

... was and is that of freedom, of subjects released unto their own making. Choice, I argue, operates within this frame to demarcate cultures of constraint versus those of freedom, and challenges strict notions of safety and risk. Drawing on research in Australia and Hong Kong, it appears that within very different contexts...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines two modes, qualities, and dynamics of lethality in contemporary late liberal societies: the state of killing and letting die. Using contemporary debates in Australia over indigenous health and welfare and new federal security laws, the essay explores...

... Eastern” appearance was attacked. It is significant that the Cronulla race riots took place on the beach, a site where cultural differences have been contested in Australia's past—and present, in light of the war on terror. Cronulla is steeped in surfing tradition, and a cultural process known to surfers...

...María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Why is Spain's role as a colonizing power in the Americas overlooked by scholars of white settler colonialism? If European ventures in such disparate places as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the United States, Angola, and Algeria can all be viewed...

...Katrina Schlunke Does “possession” produce “home”? This essay figures the claim by Captain Cook to possess Australia as an attempt to institute a single order of time and nature. But that order was and is always undercut by the reality of an enduring indigenous sovereignty. Through ideas of memory...

.... It includes personal reflections and analysis of some of the future implications for government policy relating to Aboriginal people in Australia. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Larissa Behrendt Home: The Importance of Place to the Dispossessed ​I am a Kamilaroi...

... Indigenous peoples, as well as demarcated to privilege certain racialized, classed, and gendered groups of settlers, then such unmaking requires different ways of relating to land. I highlight two instances of “blockades”—the Pacific Climate Warriors at Newcastle Harbor in Australia and the protectors...

...Donald C. Gordon Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND ITS HEROES Donald C. Gordon WHEN NED KELLY, bandit and bushranger, the Jesse James of Australia, died at the hands of the hangman in 1880, perhaps the thought most unlikely to cross...

...Justus M. van der Kroef Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Campus Rebels, the New Left, and Australian National Policy Justus M. van der Kroef The truth is that the status quo is being threatened in Australia today by an awakening of dissent in the universities such as there has...

... history have im­ proved tremendously since 1945. The universities, the Social Science Research Council of Australia, and the Australian Humanities Research Council have all encouraged research and publication. The growth of the Australian National Library in Canberra, com­ manding resources to supplement...