Inside Canberra

Author : Rob Chalmers
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921862373

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Inside the Canberra Press Gallery by Rob Chalmers Pdf

Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr.

Author : Rob Chalmers,Jenny Hutchison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Australia
ISBN : UVA:X000820158

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Inside Canberra by Rob Chalmers,Jenny Hutchison Pdf

Australia Politics Dictionaries (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0382906).

Author : Don Whitington,Rob Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 084261592X

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Inside Canberra by Don Whitington,Rob Chalmers Pdf

Author : Rob Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Commonwealth Parliamentary Press Gallery (Australia)
ISBN : 192186236X

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Inside the Canberra Press Gallery by Rob Chalmers Pdf

Author : Michael Pusey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521336619

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Economic Rationalism in Canberra by Michael Pusey Pdf

Michael Pusey discusses the way that Australian policies have transformed since the 1970's.

Author : Cathy McGowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925835901

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Cathy Goes to Canberra by Cathy McGowan Pdf

Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to another independent in 2019 - a first in Australian history. Cathy tells how thousands of ordinary men and women in north-eastern Victoria got together, organised themselves and made their voices heard in Canberra. An inspiring tale and a primer for other communities looking to create change.

Author : JAL Watson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643102828

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Termites in the Canberra Region by JAL Watson Pdf

This second edition reflects the changing emphasis in termite identification and control. The first step in coping with termites is still the location and treatment of their nests but there is greater emphasis on barrier treatments to exclude them from buildings, and the need to install barriers during construction no matter where the building is sited.This book is well illustrated with black and white photographs and the text carefully discusses control and precautions necessary for all buildings. While referring to the Canberra region and south coast of NSW, the lessons to be learned will be valuable to any region with termite problems.

Author : Andrew Vine
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711276178

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The Canberra in the Falklands War by Andrew Vine Pdf

Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982, Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to carry the Marines and Paratroops into battle. Against all odds she surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, At the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a heroes welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner: waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners, found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. A Very Strange Way to Go to War is a candid and captivating story, drawing from first hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the heroic courage of ordinary British men and women in the face of great adversity, at the outpost of empire.

Author : Cynthia Breheny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0992482704

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Inside Canberra by Cynthia Breheny Pdf

Inside Canberra is a compilation of watercolour paintings, each accompanied by a small amount of information describing the nature, history and life of this unusual city. The artist and writer is a well known Canberra architect. This book won the Best Early Reader's Information Book 2013 prize in the Children's Picture Book competition conducted by the University of Canberra. Visitors to Canberra, especially those with English as a second language, children and watercolour painting enthusiasts will appreciate this book.

Author : Margaret Simons
Publisher : University of New South Wales Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Government and the press
ISBN : 086840649X

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Fit to Print by Margaret Simons Pdf

Margaret Simons went to Canberra to subject the journalists to a journalist's eye. The result is a penetrating and personal story about a world both extraordinary and ordinary, where the barriers between the personal and the political shift and blur. 'In both its form and content, this book is a call for a reinvigoration of journalism. It is at once a documentary account of the Canberra Press Gallery, the story of a personal journey through journalism, and a reminder that information will always be about power.

Author : Michael Harris,Martin Partington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313379

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Administrative Justice in the 21st Century by Michael Harris,Martin Partington Pdf

The idea of administrative justice is central to the British system of public law, more embracing than judicial review, or even administrative law itself. It embraces all the mechanisms designed to achieve a proper balance between the exercise of public and quasi-public power and those affected by the exercise of that power. This book contains revised versions of the papers given at the International Conference on Administrative Justice held in Bristol in 1997. Forty years after the publication of the Franks Committee report on Tribunals and Inquiries, the conference reflected on developments since then and sought to provoke debate about how the future might unfold. Participants included policy makers, tribunal chairs and ombudsmen, other decision-takers as well as academics - a formidable combination of expertise in the operation of the administrative justice system. Among the themes addressed in the papers are the following: the effect of the changing nature of the state on current institutions; human rights and administrative justice; the relationship between decision taking, reviews of decisions, and the adjudication of appeals; and the overview of administrative justice, taking into account lessons from abroad. The new millenium provides an opportunity for the reappraisal of the British system of administrative justice; this volume presents an indispenable repository of the ideas needed to understand how that system should develop over the coming years. Contributors: Michael Adler, Margaret Allars, Dame Elizabeth Anson, Lord Archer of Sandwell, Michael Barnes, Julia Black, Christa Christensen, David Clark, Gwynn Davis, Godfrey Cole, Suzanne Day, Julian Farrand, Tamara Goriely, Michael Harris (Ed), Neville Harris, Tony Holland, Terence Ison, Christine Lally, Douglas Lewis, Rosemary Lyster, Aileen McHarg, Walter Merricks, Linda Mulcahy, Stephen Oliver, Alan Page, Martin Partington (Ed), David Pearl, Jane Pearson, Paulyn Marrinan Quinn, John Raine, Andrew Rein, Alan Robertson, Roy Sainsbury, John Scampion, Chris Shepley, Caroline Sheppard, Patricia Thomas, Brian Thompson, Nick Wikeley, Tom Williams, Jane Worthington, Richard Young.

Author : Elspeth Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134936359

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Third World in the First by Elspeth Young Pdf

European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit populations, this legacy remains strong. Modernisation - the `boom and bust' model of state and private development - and the partial and biased assistance provided by the state have eroded many communities through their disregard for socio-economic structures and the beliefs which underpin them. Third World in the First explores the past, present and future of these peoples, their treatment by the `West' and the alternative strategies of development which might be available to them.

Author : Johanna Nichols
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226580571

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time by Johanna Nichols Pdf

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, examples are included from Kayardild, Djingili, Dyirbal, Mangarayi, Maung, Ngiyambaa.

Author : James Lesh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000606713

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Values in Cities by James Lesh Pdf

Examining urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia, James Lesh reveals how evolving ideas of value and significance shaped cities and places. Over decades, a growing number of sites and areas were found to be valuable by communities and professionals. Places perceived to have value were often conserved. Places perceived to lack value became subject to modernisation, redevelopment, and renewal. From the 1970s, alongside strengthened activism and legislation, with the innovative Burra Charter (1979), the values-based model emerged for managing the aesthetic, historic, scientific, and social significance of historic environments. Values thus transitioned from an implicit to an overt component of urban, architectural, and planning conservation. The field of conservation became a noted profession and discipline. Conservation also had a broader role in celebrating the Australian nation and in reconciling settler colonialism for the twentieth century. Integrating urban history and heritage studies, this book provides the first longitudinal study of the twentieth-century Australian heritage movement. It advocates for innovative and reflexive modes of heritage practice responsive to urban, social, and environmental imperatives. As the values-based model continues to shape conservation worldwide, this book is an essential reference for researchers, students, and practitioners concerned with the past and future of cities and heritage. The Foreword and Chapter 1/Introduction of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Enrico Fels
Publisher : Springer
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319456898

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Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific? by Enrico Fels Pdf

This book investigates whether a power shift has taken place in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of the Cold War. By systematically examining the development of power dynamics in Asia-Pacific, it challenges the notion that a wealthier and militarily more powerful China is automatically turning the regional tides in its favour. With a special emphasis on Sino-US competition, the book explores the alleged linkage between the regional distribution of relevant material and immaterial capabilities, national power and the much-cited regional power shift. The book presents a novel concept for measuring power in international relations by outlining a composite index on aggregated power (CIAP) that includes 55 variables for 44 regional countries and covers a period of twenty years. Moreover, it develops a middle power theory that outlines the significance of middle powers in times of major power shifts. By addressing political, military and economic cooperation via a structured-focused comparison and by applying a comparative-historical analysis, the book analyses in depth the bilateral relations of six regional middle powers to Washington and Beijing.