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This book traces the historical development of the network utilities sector in Australia (communications, rail, gas, electricity, water supply, and sewerage services). It looks across industries, time periods and the state and federal jurisdictions, to identify what motivated the various governments to establish these enterprises and what issues arose. The book is therefore informed by the relationship between politics and society on the one hand and economic history on the other; as well as the efforts of governments in Australia to promote economic growth and the wealth of Australians. The main focus of the book is to identify and analyse the following two main questions: (i) What were the main drivers and motivations for governments establishing government-owned business in the network utilities sector? (ii) To what degree were these government-owned businesses successful at achieving the aims of these governments? In doing so the inherent characteristics of these industries are identified, in terms of their need for rights of way, network effects, the monopoly characteristics, and the potential for stimulating growth. Malcolm Abbott is an economist by profession who specialises in research in energy markets, water supply, transport, and network industries in general. In the past he has worked for the ACCC, KPMG, as a Ministerial Advisor, and as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. Bruce Cohen is a private consultant and former barrister who has worked extensively in the energy and water sectors in Australia. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from The Australian National University and has been a member of the board of directors of a number of utility companies, a Commissioner of the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission, and a former Chair of VicTrack and the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation.

Public administration --- World history --- History --- History of Oceania with Australia --- wereldgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- economische geschiedenis --- administratie --- Asia --- Oceania with Australia --- Economic history. --- Public administration. --- Australasia. --- History. --- Urban policy. --- Economic History. --- Public Management. --- Australian History. --- Urban Policy. --- Economic History --- Business & Economics

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This resource tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements.

Women --- Suffrage --- History. --- Australasia. --- Australian history. --- Donna Coates Book Prize. --- Gender equality. --- New Zealand history. --- feminism. --- feminist history. --- history of international organisations. --- history of social movements. --- suffrage history. --- transnational history. --- women's suffrage.

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Whose History? aims to illustrate how historical novels and their related genres may be used as an engaging teacher/learning strategy for student teachers in pre-service teacher education courses. It does not argue all teaching of History curriculum in pre-service units should be based on the use of historical novels as a stimulus, nor does it argue for a particular percentage of the use of historical novels in such courses. It simply seeks to argue the case for this particular approach, leaving the extent of the use of historical novels used in History curriculum units to the professional expertise of the lecturers responsible for the units.

History --- Study and teaching --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- historical literacy --- alternate histories --- australia --- student teacher education --- school curriculum --- historicity --- historical narratives --- grant rodwell --- history --- student engagement --- counterfactual histories --- historical fiction --- student teachers --- historical agency --- australian history --- compulsory history --- time-slip novels --- education --- pedagogigal dimensions --- Indigenous Australians

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Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemens Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book aims to change that. Documents penned by the exiles during their 15 years at the settlement Wybalenna offer a compelling counter-narrative to traditional representations of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's final days. The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a 15 year campaign for their own freedom. This book tells a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.

Aboriginal Australians --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Social conditions. --- History --- Australian history --- Australian Aborigines --- Tasmania --- Wybalenna --- colonialism --- Aboriginal history --- Tasmanian history --- Flinders Island (Tas.) --- History. --- Exiles --- Correspondence.

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This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here—“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”—models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics of creative production in a place that continues to position capital over culture, property over community, each of the twenty essays in this anthology takes the subject of Australian poetry definitively beyond Eurocentrism and white privilege. By pushing back against nationalizing mythologies that have, over the last 200 years since colonization, not only narrativized the logic of instrumentalization but rendered our lands precarious, this book asserts new possibilities of creative responsiveness within the Australian sensorium.

Australian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Australian literature --- Poetry. --- Australasian literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Culture. --- Australasia. --- History. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Australasian Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Australasian Culture. --- Australian History. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Social aspects --- Philosophy