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  • The Desire for Change, 2004-2007
    Tom Frame
    The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power until 3 December 2007 making John Howard the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister. This book is the final in a four-volume series examining the four Howard Governments.Contributors to each of these volumes are asked to focus critically on the Coalition’s policies and pe...
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    40,68 €

  • INTERFET
    Tom Frame
    The Indonesian invasion of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in 1975 was opposed by a coalition of local nationalist groups who engaged in armed resistance. Many people fled to Australia as refugees. Following years of turmoil and after direct urging from the Howard Government, President BJ Habibie offered the East Timorese self-determination. The United Nations Missio...
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    43,90 €

  • GETTING PRACTICAL about the Public Interest
    Tom Frame
    How is the public interest best served? It is one thing to define the public interest… it is another to pursue the interests of the public. Given the problems associated with abstract definitions, this collection of essays explores individual approaches to acting in the public interest and examines institutional strategies for advancing the public interest. The contributors con...
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    24,46 €

  • Gun Control
    Tom Frame
    ’A masterpiece of analysis of the politics of transformative change.’ - Otago Daily TimesIn the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996 - when a gunman murdered 35 people and injured another 23 at a popular Tasmanian tourist attraction - John Howard, a conservative prime minister who had been in office for just six weeks, surprised his colleagues and startled the...
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    33,49 €

  • WHO DEFINES THE PUBLIC INTEREST?
    Tom Frame
    Who defines the public interest? As the contributors to the collection have shown, the question itself is complex: which public and whose interests? The answer is controversial as well: it is not simply politicians and bureaucrats although they have a prominent role. Journalists and academics, community leaders and private citizens have all seized the initiative and asserted th...
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    33,09 €

  • Harold Holt and the liberal imagination
    Tom Frame
    “This short book focuses on Harold Holt’s political philosophy and its expression in what I have termed ‘liberal imagination’. It is an attempt to show how a man of genuinely liberal instincts applied his initiative and creativity – the essence of imagination – to a range of political issues and practical challenges during the middle decades of the twentieth century... The life...
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    16,37 €

  • Widening Minds
    Tom Frame
    Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.In a candid exploration of the highs and lows of the longest educational partnership in Australian history, Frame produces an insider’s a...
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    46,99 €

  • Ethics Under Fire
    Albert Palazzo / Tom Frame
    Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military’s commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire - a timely and compelling book - asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can’t ignore.Including chapters on social media and violence, cyberweapons, ethics...
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    44,14 €

  • The Long Road
    Tom Frame
    Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force.The Long Road analyses the successes and failures of ADF’s ’train, advise, assist’ missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, South Vietnam and Uganda. With a diverse array of co...
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    43,84 €

  • On Ops
    Albert Palazzo / Tom Frame
    No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, ’On Ops’ examines the massive transformation that has taken place sinc...
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    41,66 €

  • Moral Injury
    Tom Frame
    This collection of essays from ex-soldiers, military historians, chaplains and psychologists examines the unseen wounds sustained by Australians deployed to armed conflict, peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.While many psychical injuries heal, there is growing awareness that unseen wounds affecting the mind and the spirit are often the deepest an...
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    41,87 €

  • Losing My Religion
    Tom Frame
    In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia’s best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief - most simply can’t see why they need to be bothered with r...
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    35,48 €

  • Anglicans in Australia
    Tom Frame
    In Anglicans in Australia, bishop and theological commentator Tom Frame identifies the faultlines and tensions that exist within the contemporary Anglican Church, describes continuing debates over doctrine and their effect on the Australian Church’s relationship with the global Anglican Communion, and outlines problems, prospects and possibilities over the next twenty-five year...
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    47,99 €