A timely and provocative examination of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's devotion to the foreign policy doctrine of President George W. Bush, this inquiry looks at the dangerous international journey that Australia has embarked on as a result. Examining Howard's unswerving belief in the radical and risky doctrines of Bush, this book argues that in his eagerness to join the American president in the war against Iraq, Howard failed to comprehend the perils his soldiers would face. The author further contends that Howard has hijacked Australia's national story with his conservative nationalism and is now using that story to take Australia on a dangerous journey that will take his country deeper into international conflict.

The present anthology follows 'Happy Endings' which collected stories by women on both sides of the Tasman from 1850 to 1930. This collection includes writers such as Greville Texidor, Janet Frame, Helen Shaw, Fiona Farrell Poole, Beverley Farmer, Kate Greville and Helen Garner.

Collection of nine papers written by arts and education lecturers dealing with a range of current, significant social and cultural issues and perspectives facing literacy teachers at all levels. Examines such topics as functional literacy and gender, literacy in Aboriginal contexts, TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and literacy, and computer literacy. Indexed.

Whether it's cartwheeling naked across a rugby field in front of an audience of one billion (including your dad); playing eleven-minute soft rock tracks on night-shift radio as cover for some adult magazine fumblings; getting your appendix removed to avoid an English lesson; or stealing KISS's groupies and charging the champagne to Gene Simmons' hotel room, we've all done something in our dim, dark past that must never be spoken of again. Yet, bizarrely, the editors of Your Mother Would Be Proudhave managed to persuade a host of Australia's best-known celebrities, writers, comedians, actors, and musos to immortalize some of their most scurrilous secrets in print. The result is one of the most revealing collections of true life confessions ever to be compiled--and it's all for a good cause!

Follows 'Happy endings' which covered the years 1850-1930.

'Featuring a who's who of contemporary Australian rock, 'The sell-in' charts the artistic and commercial struggle behind the breakthrough of Ratcat, The Cruel Sea, Silverchair, Powderfinger, The Living End and their contemporaries, an era when getting gigs to pay the rent was replaced by the need to have hit singles, sell hundreds of thousands of albums and break the lucrative American market.' - back cover.

A timely and provocative examination of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's devotion to the foreign policy doctrine of President George W. Bush, this inquiry looks at the dangerous international journey that Australia has embarked on as a result. Examining Howard's unswerving belief in the radical and risky doctrines of Bush, this book argues that in his eagerness to join the American president in the war against Iraq, Howard failed to comprehend the perils his soldiers would face. The author further contends that Howard has hijacked Australia's national story with his conservative nationalism and is now using that story to take Australia on a dangerous journey that will take his country deeper into international conflict.

A stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. When Willow Wilson, an accomplished writer on modern religion and Middle East, leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrols in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey.

An irreverent take on the political life and times of Australia's 28th prime minister.