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The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard

By: John Blaxland

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The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard

By: John Blaxland

The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard is the first critical examination of Australia's post-Vietnam military operations, spanning the 35 years between the election of Gough Whitlam and the defeat of John Howard. John Blaxland explores the 'casualty cringe' felt by political leaders following the war and how this impacted subsequent operations. He contends that the Australian Army's rehabilitation involved common individual and collective training and reaffirmation of the Army's regimental and corps identities. He shows how the Army regained its confidence to play leading roles in East Timor, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, and to contribute to combat operations further afield. At a time when the Australian Army's future strategic role is the subject of much debate, and as the 'Asian Century' gathers pace and commitment in Afghanistan draws to an end, this work is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the modern context of Australia's military land force.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107043654

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Revealing Secrets

An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

By: John Blaxland,Clare Birgin

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Revealing Secrets

An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

By: John Blaxland,Clare Birgin

For a long time, the Australian Signals intelligence (or Sigint) story has been kept secret. Until now… Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key partners, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, to this arrangement? Revealing Secrets is a compelling account of Australian Signals intelligence, its efforts at revealing the secrets of other nations, and keeping ours safe. It brings to light those clever Australians whose efforts were for so long entirely unknown or overlooked. Blaxland and Birgin traverse the royal commissions and reviews that shaped Australia’s intelligence community in the 20th century and consider the advent and the impact of cyber. In unearthing this integral, if hidden and little understood, part of Australian statecraft, this book increases our understanding of the past, present and what lies ahead. ‘George Orwell famously wrote during World War Two, “we sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”. Reading this superb history by John Blaxland and Clare Birgin on Australia’s involvement with Sigint and cyber we can contemplate a new formula. We sleep safer because 24/7 intelligent, technologically competent patriotic men and women who work for our agencies, develop and work our electronic defence and offence capacities at worldclass standard. This in a world now in which we are constantly under attack. The work so secret it is proving impossible to produce an official history. This is the closest we can get and it is very good. If you are seriously interested in our defence and survival, or you would just like a good read, this belongs on your bookshelf.’ — Kim Beazley, former Defence Minister ‘A meticulous compilation of the largely unsung past achievements of our most consistently productive intelligence source. And a thoughtful analysis of how to approach the extraordinary challenges posed by the new cyber universe. Blaxland and Birgin make an important contribution to our understanding of issues needing much more open debate than our own and allied governments have traditionally allowed or encouraged.’ — Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister ‘Australia has been part of sigint since the practice began, which has shaped its history in ways that Australians know little about. Their government likes to keep things that way. Revealing Secrets overcomes efforts to keep Australians ignorant about their sigint history, by discussing everything that can be said about it without access to secret records. Anyone interested in the past and future of Australia has much to learn from this book.’ — John Ferris, author of Behind the Enigma, The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber Intelligence Agency ‘The most comprehensive and best-informed account we have had of the history of signals intelligence in Australia. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not just our country’s past, but Australia’s strategic future as well.’ — Allan Gyngell, author of Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942 ‘Revealing Secrets tell the remarkable but little-known story of how a small, back-room military office grew into a major Australian government agency. Deeply researched, authoritative and accessible, it is a valuable and timely contribution to understanding issues that have never been more important to national security.’ — Emeritus Professor David Horner, author of The Spy Catchers

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UNSW Press

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1742238742

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9781742238746

No Man's Land

By: John Toland

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No Man's Land

By: John Toland

1918: The end of the war to end all wars. The end of an era for victors and vanquished alike. When Germany launched the Ludendorf Offensives—the most massive military bombardment of World War I—they seemed certain to win. But when American troops began arriving in droves, the Allies' certain defeat became a decisive victory. No Man's Land takes us into the trenches, behind enemy lines, into military strategy sessions and through the corridors of power in London, Paris, Berlin, and Washington in a brilliant account of one of the most fateful years in Western history. Drawing on new sources—diaries, memoirs, vivid personal experiences—here is a book that for sheer excitement, drama, vigor, and emotional impact rivals the greatest novels, history marvelously told by the incomparable John Toland. "A compelling human picture...a marvelous job by a master of the big-canvas history." Business Week

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Vintage

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0525563261

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9780525563266

Battleground Sussex

A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day

By: John Grehan

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Battleground Sussex

A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day

By: John Grehan

From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the countys coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britains southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land transportation and the seas that define the borders of our nation aided, rather than deterred, the invader.Though the last successful invasion of Britain took place almost 1,000 years ago, the gently shelving beaches of Sussex have tempted the prospective invader with the promise of both an easy disembarkation and a short and direct route to London the last time being just seven decades ago.As the authors demonstrate, the repeated threat of invasion from the Continent has shaped the very landscape of the county. The rounded tops of the Iron Age hill forts, the sheer walls of the medieval castles, the squat stumps of Martello towers, the moulded Vaubanesque contours of the Palmerstone redoubts and the crouched concrete blocks and bricks of the Second World War pillboxes constitute the visible evidence of Sussexs position on Britains front line.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783460997

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9781783460991

Forensic Linguistics

By: John Olsson,June Luchjenbroers

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Forensic Linguistics

By: John Olsson,June Luchjenbroers

Now in its third edition, this practical introduction to forensic linguistics is required reading for students of language and the law. It includes: new chapters on identifying forensic texts and important interactional aspects of the language used in legal contexts an additional chapter on forensic phonetics by Harry Hollien, a world renowned forensic phonetician an appendix of forensic texts for student study, and even more exercises and suggestions for further reading a companion website with a repository of statements, notes and examples referred to throughout the text.

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A&C Black

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1472569571

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Temporariness

On the Imperatives of Place

By: John Kinsella,Russell West-Pavlov

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Temporariness

On the Imperatives of Place

By: John Kinsella,Russell West-Pavlov

Temporariness is a scandal in our culture of monumentalism and its persistent search for permanence. Temporariness, the time of the ephemeral and the performative, the time of speech, the time of nature and its constant changesthese times have little cultural purchase. In this volume two practitioners and theoreticians of time, space and the word embrace the notion of temporarinessseeing in it a site for a renewal of ways of thinking about ourselves, our language, our society and our environment. This collage of fragmentary genres approaches the notion of mitigated presence to build an atlas of intersections attentive to our own temporariness as the site of aesthetic and ethical responsibility. This book is a scintillating meditation on the temporality of human lives and the contemporary possibilities of humanistic writing. John Kinsella and Russell West-Pavlov explore the conjunctions of memoir, theory, poetry, anecdotes, journal entries and other fragmentary forms in their conversations about the political realities of the world and the imperatives of human survival. They write across hemispheres, they interanimate the specific experience of place and history in Germany, Ireland, Western Australia, the Adriatic coast, Africa, New England. 't?mp(?)r?r?n?s is the chance collaboration of two writers and intellectuals that could never have come into existence before it did and that can never be repeated. Philip Mead, University of Melbourne

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Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

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3823301039

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9783823301035

The Australian Almanac for the Year 1873

By: John L. Sherriff

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The Australian Almanac for the Year 1873

By: John L. Sherriff

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338281577X

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9783382815776

Big River Rancing

A History of the Clarence River Jockey Club, 1861-2001

By: John O'Hara

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Big River Rancing

A History of the Clarence River Jockey Club, 1861-2001

By: John O'Hara

Traces the history of the Clarence River Jockey Club and its contribution to Australian racing and the New South Wales Northern Rivers region.

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UNSW Press

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0868406376

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9780868406374

The African Poor

A History

By: John Iliffe

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The African Poor

A History

By: John Iliffe

This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521348773

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9780521348775

Nelson English

Teacher's resource book

By: John Jackman,Wendy Wren

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Nelson English

Teacher's resource book

By: John Jackman,Wendy Wren

Nelson English has been specifically designed to ensure that you cover the basics of the National Curriculum and other UK curricula. Activities cover NLS Text, Word and Sentence Level objectives.

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Nelson Thornes

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0174245483

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9780174245483

Blue Mountains

Pictorial Memories

By: John Low

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Blue Mountains

Pictorial Memories

By: John Low

From the Aboriginal beginnings, early exploration and the building of such wonders as the Giant Stairway and the Scenic Railway, the famous buildings, writers and artists, including Bradman at Blackheath, the Chinese people and the pioneers. This book covers the history of all the towns over the mountains through to the Jenolan Caves.

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148

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Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd

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0908272375

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9780908272372

Strategic Cousins

Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires

By: John Charles Blaxland

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Strategic Cousins

Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires

By: John Charles Blaxland

The author examines the roles of the small and professional armed forces of Australia and Canada, by comparing their historical experiences with expeditionary land forces.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773530355

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9780773530355

Severe Domestic Squalor

By: John Snowdon,Graeme Halliday,Sube Banerjee

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Severe Domestic Squalor

By: John Snowdon,Graeme Halliday,Sube Banerjee

This is the first book to comprehensively consider reasons why some people live in squalor and how best to intervene.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107012724

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9781107012721

The Protest Years

The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

By: John Blaxland

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The Protest Years

The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

By: John Blaxland

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ASIO was concerned that protests were being orchestrated to foment revolution. The Protest Years tells the inside story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation from the last of the Menzies years to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. With unrestricted access to ASIO's internal filesand extensive interviews with insiders, for the first time the circumstances surrounding the alleged role of ASIO in the demise of the Whitlam government are revealed and the question of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. The extraordinary background to the raid on ASIO headquarters in Melbourne by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy and Australia's efforts at countering Soviet bloc espionage, as well as the sensitive intelligence activities in South Vietnam, are exposed. This is a ground-breaking political and social history of some of Australia's most turbulent years as seen through the secret prism of ASIO. The Protest Years is the second of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO.

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Allen & Unwin

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1925268519

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The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard

The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard

Revealing Secrets

Revealing Secrets

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

Battleground Sussex

Battleground Sussex

Forensic Linguistics

Forensic Linguistics

Temporariness

Temporariness

The Australian Almanac for the Year 1873

The Australian Almanac for the Year 1873

Big River Rancing

Big River Rancing

The African Poor

The African Poor

Nelson English

Nelson English

Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains

Strategic Cousins

Strategic Cousins

Severe Domestic Squalor

Severe Domestic Squalor

The Protest Years

The Protest Years

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