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How Australia Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Ross Gittins

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How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with seventeen other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not only snapshot comparisons from the present, but charts trends over recent decades or even longer. Encyclopaedic in scope, it provides statistics for a huge range of human activity, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, interest rates to internet usage. This new edition is fully revised and updated, and features two new chapters: The Howard Impact and The Search for Scoreboards. New sections include obesity, advertising, broadband internet access, childcare and corruption. Information is highly accessible with double-page spreads for each topic. Tables and graphs are presented on one page, and clear explanation and analysis on the facing page. In each discussion the focus is to put the Australian experience into international perspective, drawing out the implications for the nation's performance, policies and prospects.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139482386

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Diplomatic Deceits

Government, Media, and East Timor

By: Rodney Tiffen

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Diplomatic Deceits

Government, Media, and East Timor

By: Rodney Tiffen

The Australian media has played a key role in debates over Australia's East Timor policy since the mid-1970s. - Introduced by the ABC's multi-awarding-winning reporter Chris Masters, this is the first book to analyse the interaction of newspapers, broadcasters, politicians, diplomats and the public during this turbulent period. - It provides a vivid insight into the key role of the media in this controversial issue. - Australia's foreign affairs policymakers decided to adopt a 'pragmatic' rather than 'principled' approach to East Timor - That policy unravelled over the subsequent quarter century, under constant pressure from public opinion, the media, and international disapproval. - In the long run, argues Rodney Tiffen, Australia's stance was neither pragmatic nor principled.

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UNSW Press

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086840571X

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9780868405711

How America Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Anika Gauja,Brendon O'Connor,Ross Gittins,David Smith

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How America Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Anika Gauja,Brendon O'Connor,Ross Gittins,David Smith

This book is a reference work with an encyclopedic range, offering contemporary and systematic comparisons between the United States and 17 other economically advanced, stable liberal democracies, as well as some more global comparisons. It offers international data on as many aspects of social life as possible, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, and interest rates to internet usage. Wherever possible, it offers not only the most recent available data but also trends over decades. The discussion focuses on changes over time and comparisons between countries. Sometimes the contrasts are striking; sometimes the commonalities are more instructive. Often national political debates are conducted in a vacuum, and examining comparative data on policies, performance, and prospects can give a better perspective.

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Springer Nature

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9811395829

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9789811395826

Keywords in Australian Politics

By: Rodney Smith,Ariadne Vromen,Ian Cook

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Keywords in Australian Politics

By: Rodney Smith,Ariadne Vromen,Ian Cook

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Cambridge University Press

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052167283X

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9780521672832

Bondi in the Sinai

Australia, the MFO and the Politics of Participation

By: Rodney Gouttman

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Bondi in the Sinai

Australia, the MFO and the Politics of Participation

By: Rodney Gouttman

This book reveals the political atmospherics behind Australia's involvement in the American-inspired Multi-national and Observers' Force in the Sinai. A child of the Egypt/Israel peace pact of 1979, the Force's lack of United Nations approval proved a formidable barrier for a skeptical Australian audience. Australia's inclusion in the NFO would not have been possible without the singular efforts of her staunchly anti-Communist Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. Background factors examined include resentment of the American Alliance, changing attitudes to the Middle East peace process, and the emotional fall-out of the Vietnam War. This book deals with previously unpublished contemporary material in a holist political analysis.

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University Press of America

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0761804587

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How Australia Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Ross Gittins

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How Australia Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Ross Gittins

How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with 17 other developed democracies on a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not only snapshot comparisons from the present, but charts trends over recent decades or even longer. Its scope is encyclopaedic, offering comparative data on as many aspects of social life as possible, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, and international trade to internet usage. It uses a highly accessible format, devoting a double-page spread to each topic, with tables on one page and a clear explanation and analysis on the facing page. In each discussion the focus is to put the Australian experience into international perspective, drawing out the implications for its performance, policies and prospects.

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Cambridge University Press

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052183578X

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Scandals

Media, Politics & Corruption in Contemporary Australia

By: Rodney Tiffen

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Scandals

Media, Politics & Corruption in Contemporary Australia

By: Rodney Tiffen

From the 1975 Loans Affair to the 1997 'travel rorts' controversy, over the past 25 years we have become accustomed to the political crises and personal dramas of scandals unfolding in the news. More than a dozen federal cabinet ministers have been forced to resign, and some disgraced state government ministers have even served time in prison. A few scandals have directly affected the fates of governments, many individual careers have been damaged, and at times the political agenda has been sharply changed. In this innovative book political scientist Rodney Tiffen uses case studies of Australia's major political scandals to show: why some issues become scandals but others don't; how scandals are brought to light; how politicians, parliament, the courts and the media interact as scandals unfold; what scandals tell us about our political culture.

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University of New South Wales

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0868406015

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Diplomatic Deceits

Government, Media, and East Timor

By: Rodney Tiffen

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Government, Media, and East Timor

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How America Compares

By: Rodney Tiffen,Anika Gauja,Brendon O'Connor,Ross Gittins,David Smith

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News and Power

By: Rodney Tiffen

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News and Power

By: Rodney Tiffen

Based on detailed case studies of news coverage and upon interviews with over 200 senior journalists, this study reveals the processes which produce news, the strategies political figures adopt to influence its making and the means by which news coverage plays a role, sometimes explosively, in political events.

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Pluto Press

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0043720439

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