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From the bush of Baradine to the corridors of Canberra, this is Craig Emerson’s story of triumph over adversity. In the mid-1960s, in the small town of Baradine in north-western New South Wales, the Emerson family was in continual crisis. The mother suffered from deep depression, and the father was exhausted by their constant fights. The two sons — Craig and Lance — were traumatised by their mother’s mental struggles and inexplicable outbursts of violence against them. Yet both parents worked hard for meagre wages to give Craig a good education, and he vindicated their sacrifice. After gaining a PhD in economics, he was invited to join Bob Hawke’s staff to help design and implement...
Features political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders - Mark Latham. This work includes bulletins from the front line of Labor politics. It provides a view into the life of a man, the Party and the nation at a crucial time in Australian history.
From the bush of Baradine to the corridors of Canberra, this is Craig Emerson's story of triumph over adversity. In the mid-1960s, in the small town of Baradine in north-western New South Wales, the Emerson family was in continual crisis. The mother suffered from deep depression, and the father was exhausted by their constant fights. The two sons -- Craig and Lance -- were traumatised by their mother's mental struggles and inexplicable outbursts of violence against them. Yet both parents worked hard for meagre wages to give Craig a good education, and he vindicated their sacrifice. After gaining a PhD in economics, he was invited to join Bob Hawke's staff to help design and implement the Lab...
Australian Competition and Consumer Legislation (previously the Australian Trade Practices Legislation) is an essential publication of competition and consumer law. Key features include: Legislative developments explained in clear history notes in each section; Acts are easy to navigate in order to locate relevant provisions, with explanatory square bracket headings for legislation subsections; essential competition and consumer law developments are comprehensively included, and easy-to-read format facilitates the usability and understanding of this collection of legislation.
Sean Meehan's book reclaims three important but critically neglected aspects of the late Emerson's "mind": first, his engagement with rhetoric, conceived as the organizing power of mind and, unconventionally, characterized by the trope "metonymy"; second, his public engagement with the ideals of liberal education and debates in higher education reform early in the period (1860-1910) that saw the emergence of the modern university; and third, his intellectual relation to significant figures from this age of educational transformation: Walt Whitman, William James, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard's first African American PhD. Meehan argues that the late Emerson educates through the "rhetorical liberal arts," and he thereby rethinks Emerson's influence as rhetorical lessons in the traditional pedagogy and classical curriculum of the liberal arts college.
A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists
Experts from a range of backgrounds around the world provide perspectives on the significance and likely impact of the agreement, and in particular its implications for national regulatory autonomy. The chapters cover cross-cutting issues such as devel
Sets out a program of economic and social reform for the next 50 years aimed at boosting the living standards and overall well being of all Australians during a period when the nation’s population will age significantly.
Bob Hawke was a popular and effective Prime Minister whose economic and social reforms are acknowledged to have shaped modern Australia. The book offers a timely look at the legacy of the Hawke era (1983-1991) by considering both the achievements of his ministry, and what remains as unfinished business. The Hawke Legacy includes interviews with Bob Hawke, with his former speechwriter Graeme Freudenberg and with former Senator Rosemary Crowley, contributions from two former members of the Hawke Government, and scholarly accounts from historical, poitical, economic, educational and Indigenous perspectives.
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