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  • The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

    Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist

    by Julia Horne, Nick Horne, Donald Horne ...
    A compelling insight into the making of one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals. A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies— The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988)—in one volume. With a keen intellect, sharp wit, and dry humour, Horne vividly ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Australian Universities

    A conversation about public good

    Edited by Dr Julia Horne, Dr Matthew A.M. Thomas ...
    Series series Public and Social Policy Series
    Australian Universities: A conversation about public good highlights contemporary challenges facing Australian universities and offers new ideas for expanding public good.More than 20 experts take up the debate about our public universities: who they are for; what their mission is (or should be); what strong higher education policy entails; and how to cultivate a robust and constructive ... Read more

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  • Waiting for Gonski

    How Australia failed its schools

    by Tom Greenwell, Chris Bonnor ...
    Why is education in Australia failing? Where did we go wrong, and how do we fix it? The Gonski Review seemed like a breakthrough. Commissioned by Prime Minster Julia Gillard and chaired by leading businessman David Gonski, the 2011 review made clear that school education policy wasn't working, and placed a spotlight on the troubling and growing gap between the educational outcomes of disadvantaged ... Read more

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  • Ruth, Roger and Me

    Debts and Legacies

    by Andrew Dean ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Australia's Welfare Wars

    The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

    by Philip Mendes ...
    In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Econocracy

    On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts

    by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins ...
    A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right

    How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

    by Richard Denniss ...
    Series Book 70 - Quarterly Essay
    How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, we have been led to believe that the private sector does everything better, that governments can’t ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Inequality

    A New Zealand Crisis

    Edited by Max Rashbrooke ...
    The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries.New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and those who ‘have not’. Income inequality is a crisis that affects us all.A diverse gathering of New ... Read more

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  • Maori and the State

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

    by Richard S. Hill ...
    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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  • Australian Social Policy and the Human Services

    by Ed Carson, Lorraine Kerr ...
    Social policy encompasses the study of social needs, policy development and administrative arrangements aimed at improving citizen wellbeing and redressing disadvantage. Australian Social Policy and the Human Services introduces readers to the mechanisms of policy development, implementation and evaluation. This third edition emphasises the complexity of practice, examining the links and gaps ... Read more

    $58.29 USD