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Uncharted Waters
In this paper, Andrew Shearer reviews Australian public attitudes towards the US alliance in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and America's unprecedented credit downgrading. On 1 September 60 years ago the ANZUS Treaty was signed in San Francisco. This essay focuses on the current and future challenges facing the Australia-US alliance, particularly flowing from the rise of China, and analyses some of those challenges, including through the prism of Australian public attitudes.
The Shearers
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High Time Resolution Astrophysics
This is quite simply the first volume of its kind dedicated to the area of high time resolution astrophysics. High time resolution astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window on the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described.
The Shearer's Colt
"The Shearer's Colt" is a horseracing novel. It tells the tale of upper-class Londoner Hilton Fitzroy who is attempting to establish himself in Queensland, a frontier state. He gets hired as Red Fred's "seckitary," a shearer who struck it rich in the gold mines and now needs help spending his millions. Hilton Fitzroy is described as someone with a " violent temper and his stubborn refusal to bear himself lowly and reverently towards anybody, all marked him out as a throw-back to some (possibly royal) ancestor who had helped himself to everything in sight in the dim and distant past." Will Fitzroy squander the shearer's money on gambling or invest it?
Astronomical Polarisation from the Infrared to Gamma Rays
This book serves as both a primer to astronomical polarimetry and an authoritative overview of its application to various types of astronomical objects from AGN, compact stars, binary systems, stars across the HR diagram, transients, the interstellar medium and solar system bodies. It starts with an historical perspective, a discussion of polarimetric theory, instrumentation and techniques in wave bands from the near infrared to gamma rays. The book presents the state of the art in astronomical polarimetry. It is motivated by the new X-ray polarimeters due to be launched in the next four years and improved optical polarimeters on large telescopes requiring a new analysis of polarimetric theory, methodology and results.This book will be suitable as advanced undergraduate companion text, a primer for graduate students and all researchers with an interest in astronomical polarimetry.
The Shearer's Colt
Famous especially for his poem, The Man from Snowy River, Andrew Barton Paterson was an Australian author from the bush who wrote especially about the Australian outback. The Shearer's Colt, one of two novels that Paterson wrote, reflects his lifelong interest in horses, which began when he watched horsemen from the Murrumbidgee River area and Snowy Mountains country take part in picnic races and polo matches.
The Universe at Sub-Second Timescales
Edinburgh, Scotland, 11-13 September 2007
