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The quest for better public sector management is worldwide. Every country is exploring ways of providing services better and more efficiently - ways of reinventing government. Learning from one another is an obvious strategy for governments intent on reform. Other countries' experiences often seem to promise simple solutions. But how far is this a realistic strategy? This book enables lessons to be drawn from comparative experiences. By examining the reform strategies of governments in Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, and by comparing or analysing their impact, the authors provide insights into the process and lessons on what does, or does not, work. The starting point for this book was the 1994 Fulbright Symposium, hosted by the Centre for Australian Public Sector Management at Griffith University and held in Brisbane in June 1994. The contributors are both practitioners and academics, drawing on years of experience from Downing Street to the White House, from Canberra to Brisbane. The result is stimulating and provocative, and will encourage readers to asses the impact of the reform agenda, challenging their assumptions about th ... Read more

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Australian republicanism has moved to the centre of our national agenda and is likely to be achieved within the next generation. However, the details of that republican government have yet to emerge. This updated version of Monarchy to Republic provides the latest developments in public opinion and arguments for and against retaining a monarchy. George Winterton focuses on the practical constitutional and governmental issues involved in establishing an Australian republic. An important reference work, Monarchy to Republic now includes the latest developments in public opinion, arguments for and against retaining the monarchy, and recent constitutional developments. ... Read more

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'Both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians have a lot to learn about each other before reconciliation between the two peoples can be realised. This book will go a long way towards achieving that end.' Paul Behrendt ... Read more

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Publisher: Melbourne : R.S. BrainPublication date: 1898Subjects: Victoria -- Description and travelNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Many changes have occurred in Aboriginal history in the last twenty years. This means not only that history has continued to happen since 1988. It also means that there have been sharp challenges to our understanding of the whole of the past, before and since 1988. The past itself has been even more hotly contested than before 1988 as historians and others became embroiled in the so-called 'history wars'. In these circumstances, my original ambition for this book in 1975 and 1988, that it be characterized by 'balance, concision and simplicity', seems today even more naive and perhaps utopian than it was many years ago. This edition has been extensively revised. The two-part structure, Aboriginal Reactions and White Reactions, has been retained. It includes chapters on: The Assimilation Era 1937-1960s; The Rise of Self determination 1960s-1990s; Mabo, Wik and Reconciliation. Four new readings have been included to cover the last twenty years. ... Read more

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" ...often new, probing and rich examinations of the takeover of a continent by white Anglos and the long-term impact ...the book is replete with detailed and meticulously sourced information on the scope, scale and persistence of the cruelty and violence involved - actual and structural - over a 200-year period...there is a great deal in this excellent volume that demands grounds for deep reflection on how Australia came to be what it is." * Patterns of Prejudice "The value of this stimulating collection of historical essays is that it points to both the usefulness of a transnational framework for analysing race thinking and the necessity for close attention to the historical specificity of particular moments and places."* Australian Book Review "[This volume] is an outstanding collection, a challenging conversation between differing viewpoints where discussion is ongoing and cooperative."* Australian Historical Studies Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon.This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context.Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. A. Dirk Moses teaches European History and comparative genocide Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is editing another volume in this series entitled Genocide and Colonialism. ... Read more

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