Past Publications
The Playful Audience: From Talkshow to Internet Users, Tony Wilson (Hampton Press, New Jersey, 2004)
This book argues that the cognitive processes allowing meaning to be given to television or Internet content are essentially everywhere the same, from Malaysia to Manchester and Massachusetts to Melbourne.
It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor, eds Jenny Hocking, Colleen Lewis, Circa Books, 2003
This collection of essays by leading academics, commentators and the former Prime Minister himself, looks at the circumstances of both the creation and demise of the Whitlam Government and in doing so sets the Whitlam era on a broader canvas. The essays are revisions of the papers presented at a conference about the Whitlam Government held in Canberra in 2002.
Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-Terrorism and the Threat to Democracy, Jenny Hocking (UNSW, 2003)
The underlying concern of this book is the issue of balancing the needs for national security with individual rights and freedoms. Author Jenny Hocking argues that, in light of September 11 and Bali, the security legislation proposed, and in part passed, by the Howard government compromises the separation of powers and invidvidual legal and political rights. Her discussion of the history of ASIO gives context to current debates. The book develops themes first explored in Hocking's 1993 title, Beyond Terrorism: the Development of the Australian Security State (Allen & Unwin).
Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Suffering, edited and introduction David Dunstan (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000)
The autobiography of Owen Suffolk, a criminal, poet, storyteller and orator who was sentenced to seven years transportation from Britain to Australia in 1847. Suffolk re-offended in Australia and spent more than sixteen years in colonial gaols, enduring four terms of imprisonment before his release and return to Britain in 1866. Days of Crime and Years of Suffering caused a sensation when published as a newspaper serial in 1867 but was not published in book form until 2000.
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns, Paul Strangio (Mup, 2002)
Highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Cairns played in shaping Australian public life. In tracing his ideological and poitical rivalry with whitlam, it challenges the popular nostaligia that surrounded the former leader.
Lionel Murphy: a political biography, Jenny Hocking (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
This political biography of barrister, politician and High Court judge Lionel Murphy forced a reinterpretation of Murphy's considerable legal, social and political legacy. Now available in paperback, this new version includes an epilogue which reassesses Murphy's place in the recent political and legal landscape in the light of further controversies, arguing that a long and influential career should not be obscured by the traumatic years before his death.
- There to the Bitter End: Ted Serong , Anne Blair (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- Canvas Documentaries. Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-centry Australia and New Zealand, Mimi Colligan (MUP, 2002)
- Ted Serong: the life of an Australian counter-insurgency expert, Anne Blair (Allen & Unwin, 2001)
- Arguing the Cold War, Paul Strangio and Peter Love (eds) (Red Rag Publications, 2001. [an imprint of Overland])
- Wine From the Hills: Australia's Pyrenees Region, David Dunstan (Arcadia, Melbourne, 2001)
- Bibliography of Australian Literature Project, List of Australian Writers 1788-1992, eds John Arnold and John Hay (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2001)
- No Toxic Dump!, Paul Strangio (Pluto Press, 2001)
- Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870, Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt (MUP, 2000)
- Sydney's Century: a history, Peter Spearritt (UNSW , 2000)