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Edited by: Graham Seal and Jennifer Gall
ISBN: 9780980631371 (pbk.)
Publication date: December 2011

Antipodean Traditions: Australian Folklore in the 21st Century is a selection of papers from the Australian National Folklore Conference, 2005-2010. The scholarly study of Australian folk tradition is relatively recent and this collection provides a guide to the past, present and future of the field. The Introduction traces the development of folklore studies in Australia and provides connections to further resources and information. The contributors are all expert in their respective fields and have been involved in researching, teaching, collecting, archiving and often performing aspects and elements of Australia's rich and diverse folk traditions.

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Edited by: Angela Wardell-Johnson, Naama Amram, Ratna Malar Selvaratnam & Sundari Ramakrishna
ISBN: 9780980631364 (pbk)
Publication date: March, 2011

Biodiversity fits within a broader landscape, not only of ecological systems, but also of social, cultural and economic systems. Through identifying and understanding different voices, values and practices in biodiversity conservation we improve the potential for effective long-term biodiversity conservation that is peaceful and inclusive. This book draws on the collective knowledge of a linked cycle of theory and practice. The contributors benefit from being grounded by practical biodiversity communities and draw on experience at the global scale. Insights from practice in Indigenous, developing and developed contexts in Asian, Australian and African landscapes are included. The integration of landscape practice theory with technological, socially grounded and philosophical perspectives presents social justice as a rationale for biodiversity conservation with as much power as plant and animal conservation. This collective synthesis of Indigenous, scientific and local knowledge guides practice in effective and sustained biodiversity conservation in a breadth of contexts. This ecology of peace provides a compelling reason for working with compassion in biodiversity conservation.

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A Biography of the Editor of the Enquirer Newspaper, Edmund Stirling (1812 - 1897)

Author: Patricia Reynolds, the great great grandaughter of Edmund Stirling.
ISBN: 9780-980-631-340 (pbk)
Publication date: 2010

Edmund Stirling arrived in the Swan River settlement in 1830. For over fifty years he was involved with the local newspaper industry, and for most of that time was the sole proprietor and editor of one of the major early newspapers, The Inquirer. He was a man of high ideals and principles who, through his editorials and journalistic endeavours, was a significant force in shaping public opinion and pressuring governments. Stirling and his paper were held in high regard by the early settlers, but he has since received very little recognition for the role he played in the colony. Patricia Reynolds’ biography establishes Stirling as an influential Western Australian pioneer.

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Book Review:
"This book is a Swan River Colony gem  ...  I'm sure Edmund Stirling would consider this a great read indeed!"
Jennifer Lydon, Western Ancestor, Journal of the Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc., Dec. 2010.

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Edited by: Suvendrini Perera, Graham Seal and Sue Summers
ISBN: 9780980631357 (pbk.)
Publication date: October 2010

The shifting and volatile politics of population, border protection and belonging play a key role in twenty-first century Australian politics, as they did in the foundational debates and narratives leading up to federation in 1901. Although population emerged as a defining issue of the 2010 general election, it would be mistaken to assume that this is a first: historically a range of official inquiries, debates and policies of successive governments have directly and indirectly addressed the issue of population as a question of the racial reproduction of the nation. The essays in this volume, although they mostly predate 2010 ‘population debate’, explore the return in contemporary form of many of historical practices and discourses for policing racial-national borders. Focusing on three key groups of outsiders within – temporary workers, international students and refugees and asylum seekers – the contributions address key aspects of border tensions and panics as the boundaries of belonging and of cultural citizenship are continually drawn, patrolled and policed in new and old ways.

“Enter At Own Risk is everything that scholarship should be – bold, relevant, opinionated, based on real authority; and worth reading.” - Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia.

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Edited by: Dawn Bennett and Michael Hannan
ISBN: 978075751961
Publication date: 2008

Inside, Outside, Downside Up combines selected papers from the 16th International Seminar of the Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (CEPROM) with additional papers from previous CEPROM Chairs Orlando Musumeci and Michael Hannan.
The papers represent critical issues concerning conservatoire training and the ever-changing world of work: exploring key themes including musicians' identities as teachers; employment and employability; music theory informing musical practice; and new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment.

Dawn Bennett is a Research Fellow with CASAAP at Curtin University and holds postgraduate degrees in education and music performance, including a PhD (Distinction) with the University of Western Australia and a Fellowship with Trinity College, London. She has worked extensively as a violist, educator, researcher and administrator in England and Australia.

Michael Hannan is Professor of Contemporary Music and Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University in Australia. He is a composer, keyboard performer and music researcher.

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Author: June Lacy
ISBN:1740671473
Publication date: 2002

Off Shears is the result of a passionate desire to ensure that the shearing industry’s place in the state’s history is recorded.

Author, June Lacy contacted shed-owners, ex-shearers,and others involved in the industry and the result is Off Shears, a book filled with photographs, reminiscences, humour and shared memories that continues to inform and delight all who read it.

The late June Lacy (formerly June Read) was in the rural industry all her adult life. She was a life member of the Dowerin Machinery Field Days, and was actively involved with the Pastoralists’ and Graziers’ Association, the Royal Agricultural Society, and a rural journalist with the ABC, The West Australian, The Countryman and the now defunct Western Farmer.

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Edited by: Lenore Layman
ISBN: 9780 980 631 388 (pbk.)
Publication date: November 2011

This book tells the story of one of Perth’s most significant places, drawing particularly on the memories of those who depended upon it for work and power. The East Perth Power Station lies at the heart of the electrification of Perth and deserves to be recognised and remembered as central to the fabric of life in Perth. In turn, in highlighting our ever-expanding consumption of electricity, the story reminds us of the environmental limits to that consumption and the questions of sustainability which confront us in the new century. Lenore Layman

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ISBN: 9780980631302
Publication date: 2009

This publication represents interdisciplinary work from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and Pacific (CASAAP) at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. It is edited by three Curtin University academics: Dawn Bennett is a Senior Research Fellow with the Faculty of Humanities, where she conducts research into creativity in its many guises. Jaya Earnest is an Associate Professor with the Centre of International Health, and is involved with research projects in Australia, India and East Timor. Miyume Tanji is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Human Rights Education. Her research focuses on communities living with US military bases in Okinawa and Guam.

This publication first focuses on cultural identities and reflects investigations on the historical and contemporary bases and consequences of identity formation in relation to, inter alia, ethnicity, gender, nation and class. The second section of the book probes the depths of radical and regional transformation resulting from reform, innovation or policy across nations, societies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific. Finally, the book explores different trajectories of international relations, which are manifested through issues of regional security, terrorism, refugees, and immigration, social and political movements.

CONTENTS

• People, place and power, Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest and Miyume Tanji.
• Changing landscapes of war commemoration in Western Australia, John Stephens.
• Remembering and forgetting ANZAC Cottage: Interpreting the community significance of Australian War Memorials since World War One, Graham Seal.
  
• Creativity and ‘new’ careers: What can we learn from the creative industries? Dawn Bennett.
• The dynamics of wakon y?sai (Japanese spirit, Western technology): The paradoxes and challenges of financial policy in an industrializing Japan, 1854-1939. Simon Bytheway and Michael Schiltz.
• Intersecting Islamic and ethnic identities in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Ian Chalmers.
• India: In search of a nation and its other histories, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
• India: In search of a nation and its other histories, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
  
• Community resilience and sustainable development in Okinawa: Yomitan village’s traumatic trajectory of war and military occupation, Miyume Tanji.
  
• Local resilience: Living with risk in vulnerable internally displaced communities in Timor-Leste, Jaya Earnest and Pat Faulkner.
  
• The empire strikes back: Refugees, race and the reinvention of empire, Lucy Fiske and Linda Briskman.
  
• Academic activism for political change: Opposing mandatory detention of asylum seekers, Linda Briskman.
• Working through trauma in post-dictatorial Chilean documentary: Lorena Giachino’s Reinalda del Carmen, Antonio Traverso.

ISBN: 9780980631302

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Third Edition
Author: Neville Saunders
ISBN: 1 863 42 106 8
Publication date: 2000

The book and accompanying exercises on the CD-ROM were prepared for Speech Pathology students and for those Australians involved in teaching second languages, including ESL in an Australian setting, where awareness of the phonological differences in languages is an important part of the training.  

The course provides an excellent introduction to phonetic transcription for Speech Pathologists, ESL and LOTE teachers, and those interested in the uniqueness of Australian English.

The IPA (International Phonetics Association) Alphabet is used, and the symbols are those found in the Australian English Dictionaries. The Windows compatible CD Rom ontains explanations and a variety of transcription exercises using Australian English speakers.

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Authors: Stephen Smith and Graham Seal.
ISBN: 9780975751930
Publication date: 2007

Drawing on history, heritage, regional community traditions and sense of place, Place and People presents a number of new approaches to regional research. The book provides an overview, guide and case studies that will be of value to researchers and practitioners in regional development, cultural tourism and heritage studies in Australia and beyond.

Stephen Smith is a teacher and researcher in the Faculty of Built Environment and Design and Director of the Australian Regional Research Unit at Curtin University.

Graham Seal is Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University.

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Author: Juliet Ludbrook
Publication date: 1999
ISBN: 186342735X.

Chapters: Arriving in Australia; Holidays Begin; Together Again; Ruddy Sheep; Prostitutes, Politics and Heathens; Steamships to Motor Vessels; Oil and Water; Larrikins at Sea; Rock Around the Deck; Food; Permitted to Land; Favourite Places; Where to School?; War; The Fall of Singapore; We Had a Secret; Back to School; Spoilt Colonial Brats.

Author, Juliet Ludbrook first came to Western Australia, as a nine-year-old, from England (via Indonesia) in 1950. She lived with her grandparents and travelled on the Schoolships to visit her parents at Christmas time. She has worked as a teacher, librarian, researcher, writer and oral historian.

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Author: Graham Seal, Professor of Folklore, Curtin University
ISBN: 186 342 6671
Publication date: 1998 (second edition)

Have you ever wondered:

• Why you sing 'Happy Birthday' when someone is celebrating the aniversary of their birth?
  
• Why are some birthdays more important than others - 18th or 21st birthdays for example?
• Why do most occupations have their own jargon and insider lingo?
• What do graffiti, yarns, 'Di' or Dingo jokes, children's games & photocopies drawings/jokes/fake memos have in common?
• Answer: they are all forms of folklore.

In The Hidden Culture Graham Seal discusses the importance of folklore and gives examples of what folklore means and how it is used in everyday life. Folklore is a 'hidden culture' because although it is all around us all the time, we generally take it for granted. This book reveals this culture and explains its significance for us all.

The Hidden Culture is also a valuable reference guide to those interested in preserving Austalia's Folklore with a 'how-to' section on recording and maintaining data.

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Edited by: Shelleyann Scott and Kathryn C Dixon
ISBN: 9780975751954

The Globalised University: Trends and Challenges in Teaching and Learning is essential reading for academics, educators and students who are focussing upon the changing nature of the university sector as it moves further into a new era.

Chapter 1 - The Changing Nature of Higher Education in the 21st Century: Developments and Trends. Shelleyann Scott and Kathryn Dixon (University of Calgary, Curtin University of Technology)

Chapter 2 - Institutional Support for Quality Learning and Teaching Barbara de la Harpe and Alex Radloff (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Central Queensland University)

Chapter 3 - Faculty Perceptions of Learning and Teaching at an Australian Technology University: Challenges in Maintaining Quality. Kathryn Dixon and Shelleyann Scott

Chapter 4 - Technology in the United Kingdom's Higher Education Context. Linda Price and Adrian Kirkwood (The Open University of the United Kingdom)

Chapter 5 - Teaching and Learning at a Middle Eastern University: Scholarship, Constructivism, Educative Leadership and Autocracy. Reynold Macpherson (Middle Eastern University)

Chapter 6 - Investigating the Tensions Between Good Teaching and the Research Agenda: An American Perspective. Sarah W. Nelson(Texas State University)

Chapter 7 - Leadership That Supports Positive Educational Change. Charles F. Webber (University of Calgary)
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Author: John Stephens.
ISBN: 9780975751992
Publication date: 2008

War memorials are an important part of our landscape, history and heritage. They are physical reminders of the service and sacrifice of men and woman in times of war and in helping to maintain world peace and stability. Whether war memorials are old or new they help us to understand who we are as a nation and what Australian cultural values we may chose to project to the world at large. They are the focus of sorrow and grief for those that suffered and died, as much as frustration and anger at the waste and futility of wars. As such, they deserve our respect as significant Australian heritage. This book explains the history and place of war memorials in Western Australia and provides guidance for their research and protection.

The Remembering the Wars project at Curtin University of Technology aims to raise awareness of the importance of war memorials in Western Australia and promote their protection and care. The project is supported by the returned and Services League of Australia WA Branch Inc., The Australian Research Council and Curtin University.

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Author: Bobbie Oliver
ISBN: 1-920845-01-1 (hardbk) and 1-902845-00-3 (pbk)
Publication date: 2003

In April 1899, 28 men met in Coolgardie on the Eastern Goldfields to hold Western Australia’s first Trades Union Council. It was the genesis of an organised labour movement that, by 1907 was to span the vast State. For 60 years the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia was unique, comprising political and industrial wings in one united body, thus exemplifying the motto, Unity is Strength. Changing circumstances, including the Party split in the 1950s, however, revealed the need structure and an independent Trades and Labor Council formed in 1963.

During the ALP’s first century, Labor governments held in office in the State for a total of 45 years, leaving an impressive record of social and political reform despite always having to contend with a non-Labor majority in the Legislative. Interwoven with the stories of Premiers, Party and union leaders, however, this Centenary History of the Australian Labor Party (WA), Bobbie Oliver includes the contributions of bush organisers and party workers.

Drawing on a vast body of archival material, Dr Oliver relates the slow and often unseen progress of women and minority groups in achieving influence in the Party or the industrial organization. Together with the well publicized struggles – and triumphs – of the twentieth century including: the 40-hour week, the right of free speech and assembly, health and safety in the workplace, an equitable voting system, are Party splits over conscription in 1916 and in the 1950s creating the Democratic Labor Party; the rise of factionalism, disputes between the Party and the TLC, and 'WA Inc’.

In the late 1990s, in the context of hostile ‘Third Wave’ industrial legislation and the ‘War on the Wharves’, the ALP and the Trades and Labor Council found new truth in the old motto, Unity is Strength.

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One of YCulture Metro projects – and supported by Black Swan Press together with the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University – this journal is put together with flair and zest by a group of humanities graduates who have banded together, “to encourage other writers, artists, designers, and everyday people to get published and/or publish yo’sleves”.

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ISBN: 9780980631319 (pbk.)

A Proper Foundation tells the story of the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia, now known under its trading name, Lotterywest. It is a multi-layered story that not only examines the importance of the Commission as a government agency which runs a highly successful lottery business, it also tells the story of the cultural and social life of Western Australia for most of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Author, Sian Supski is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University. She has published a book and a number of scholarly articles on cultural and social life in Western Australia in the twentieth century.

Please direct all enquiries, and orders for this publication, to: Jody Nunn, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Lotterywest. Email: jody.nunn@lotterywest.wa.gov.au