21 24 is a wild ride and a dangerous read, taking your mind to places it may not want to visit. It will give you guilty pleasures and challenge your values. It peels open the unsavoury layers of the human animal and questions the justice of locking up the all too real monsters who live among us. Officer Katrina Hyke answers a 911 call and is confronted by a horror that changes her life forever. When yet another criminal receives a meagre sentence for a heinous crime, her frustration boils over. The lack of punishment for the horrendous deaths of innocent people needs to stop. Her quest for true justice eventually takes her down her own dark path: one she may not be able to come back from, one she discovers she enjoys.
This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914. Multinational enterprise arrived predominantly from Britain, but other sender nations included the USA, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Japan. Their firms spread out across Australia from mining and pastoral communities, to portside industries and CBD precincts, and they operated broadly across mining, trading, shipping, insurance, finance, and manufacturing. They were a remarkably diverse population of firms by size, organisational form, and longevity. This is a rare study of the impact of multinationals on a host nation, particularly before World War One, and that focuses on a successful resource-based economy. Deploying a database of more than 600 firms, supported by contemporary archives and publications, the work reveals how multinational influence was contested by domestic enterprise, other foreign firms, and the strategic investments of governments in network industries. Nonetheless, foreign agency – particularly investment, knowledge and entrepreneurship – mattered in the economic development of Australia in the nineteenth as well as the twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in Australian and international economic and business history, the history of economic growth and scholars of international business.
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