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Policymaking to support resilience in democratic countries: an examination of Sweden, Israel, and Australia
The term ‘resilience’ has increasingly featured in foreign and security policy discourse, appearing in the 2016 European Union Global Strategy, the...
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A History of Regional Commercial Television in Australia
This book is the first history of commercial television in regional Australia, where diverse communities are spread across vast distances and...
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The Development of E-cigarette Policy in Australia: The Policy, How It Came About and How It Is Justified
Australia has banned the sale of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes as consumer goods. Australian policy allows their use on prescription, but it has...
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The History of Legal Marketing in Australia and New Zealand
Though lawyers were not allowed to advertise any of their services in Australia and New Zealand until the end of the 20th century, they have always...
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‘From Whence We Came’- Migration from Limnos to Australia
In this chapter, Afentoulis asks why Limnians left, exploring the social, political and economic factors that influenced migration from Limnos. The...
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Introduction: Before E-Cigarettes—The Pre-history of Public Health, Tobacco and Nicotine in the UK, Australia and the US
The comparative study arose from our curiosity about why policies towards e-cigarettes were so different in the UK and Australia, two countries with...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Short History of Biosecurity Regulation in Australia
Biosecurity is a major issue for Australia. There have been both successes in stop** the import of diseases and failures in allowing the import of...
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Greek Islander Migration to Australia since the 1950s (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home
Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and...
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Industrial Craft in Australia Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival
This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as...
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Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s Rape and Child Sexual Abuse
This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change. Driven by the sexual...
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Conclusion: Why Did the UK, US and Australia Have Different E-cigarette Policies?
We sought to understand why three countries with similar political systems and similar anti-smoking policy histories developed such very different...
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UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 A Study in Policy Failure
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about...
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Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s
Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have...
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‘Australia as the Coming Greatest Foster-Father of Children the World Has Ever Known’: The Post-war Resumption of Child Migration to Australia, 1945–1947
This chapter examines the policy context and administrative systems associated with the resumption of assisted child migration from the United...
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Reflections and Transition of Old and New Italian Media in Australia: The Case of Il Globo
The Italian media in Australia has had a presence for more than 90 years. Beginning as a voice for a very small Italian migration levels in...
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Troubling Gender Relations with the Appointment of ‘That Lady Inspector’ in Post-suffrage South Australia
The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a period of rapid educational, social and political change in colonial South Australia. White settler...
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Commissioning Indigenous Australia
This chapter explores the relationship between naval collecting and the fulfilment of non-naval objectives, with reference to the diverse cast of...