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'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia

'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia

John Hirst

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral argument.
Dis-assembly

Dis-assembly

Sally Tallant

But it is the interview between Hirst and Hans Ulrich Obrist that gives a direct insight into the motivation and reason behind the murderme collection, and how it relates to Hirst the artist and Hirst the curator.
A Republican Manifesto

A Republican Manifesto

John Bradley Hirst

John Bradley Hirst. were put to the people. All were defeated and three of them by the largest margins ever. The leader of the campaign against these proposals was the Liberal front-bencher Peter Reith. He faced the difficulty that some ...
The Australians (Large Print 16pt)

The Australians (Large Print 16pt)

John Hirst

In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism.
Memoirs and select remains of ... John Cooke [ed.] by G. Redford

Memoirs and select remains of ... John Cooke [ed.] by G. Redford

John Cooke

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The Australians: Insiders & Outsiders on the National ...

The Australians: Insiders & Outsiders on the National ...

John Bradley Hirst

In this fascinating collection, John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians.
Looking for Australia: Historical Essays

Looking for Australia: Historical Essays

John Hirst

And what do such national quirks reveal about our society' our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by historian John Hirst.
John Cooke - Rifleman

John Cooke - Rifleman

Bruce Decker, Sr.

The life and times of John Cooke, frontiersman, Indian fighter, Revolutionary War soldier and early West Virginia settler.Primarily the story of Cooke's Revolutionary War Service.
Quarterly Essay 17 'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia

Quarterly Essay 17 'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia

John Hirst

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral argument.
Looking for Australia: Historical Essays

Looking for Australia: Historical Essays

John Bradley Hirst

In these enthralling essays, John Hirst considers whether Curtin was indeed Australia's greatest prime minister, examines the origins of Aussie Rules, tells the story of how Australia introduced the secret ballot, selects the best ...
Constructing Correct Software

Constructing Correct Software

John Cooke

John Cooke has based this book on material which has been used to teach the topic extensively at Loughborough University.
Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony

Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony

John Bradley Hirst

They also have long been unavailable, either new or second-hand. This combined edition includes a new foreword by Hirst. These are works that bring to vivid life the early days of convict Australia.
The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian ...

The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian ...

John Hirst

John Hirst has drawn on previously unexplored material to write a history of the long, sometimes difficult and ultimately "sentimental" process of Australian Federation, published on the eve of the Centenary of Federation.
Intruders in the bush: the Australian quest for identity

Intruders in the bush: the Australian quest for identity

John Carroll

The second edition has been revised and reshaped, and includes major new pieces by Chris Wallace-Crabbe,John Hirst, Robert Manne and John Carroll.
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: pt. 1. Family ...

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: pt. 1. Family ...

Lucy Mary Kellogg

Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes Esther Deidamia Littleford Woodworth Barnes is a descendant of Pilgrims John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, William Mullins, probably Alice ( — ) Mullins, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, and John Cooke.
Vintonia

Vintonia

David Tracy Jones

Mrs. Edith Mary Foster's brother, Arthur Cooke, died at Indianapolis in March 1951. - Edith Mary (Cooke) Foster and Wheeler Foster have the following three children: a. Vivian Cooke (Foster) Zarth (b. July 1901, wife of Randolph Zarth, ...
Research Report

Research Report

University of Melbourne

... WILLIAM CULICAN LAWRENCE ROY GARDINER DONALD EDWARD KENNEDY NOEL DAVID McLACHLAN LESLIE LLOYD ROBSON Senior Lecturers GRAEME JOHN DAVISON JOHN BRADLEY HIRST SOW THENG LEONG DONALD ...
Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s First Colony

Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s First Colony

John Hirst

Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life

Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life

Claude Raguet Hirst

Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1995; and Marcia Hyland Green, " Women Art Students in America: An Historical Studv of Academic Art Instruction During the Nineteenth Century," Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 199o; also J.
Sense & Nonsense in Australian History

Sense & Nonsense in Australian History

John Hirst

Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture.
100 Miles from Baghdad: With the French in Desert Storm

100 Miles from Baghdad: With the French in Desert Storm

James J. Cooke

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cooke, James J. 100 miles from Baghdad : with the French in Desert Storm / James J. Cooke, p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-275-94528-6 (alk. paper) 1. Persian Gulf War, 1991— Personal ...
The Evangelical Dilemma

The Evangelical Dilemma

H. H. Meyers

But those of veteran Pastor Austin Cooke, who publicly upholds historic Adventism and denounces error, were revoked (Letter from Harker to Cooke, May 23,1 989). Meanwhile, in the Trans-Australia Union Conference, a lay member of the ...
A History of Egyptian Mummies: And an Account of the Worship ...

A History of Egyptian Mummies: And an Account of the Worship ...

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew

John Cooke, M.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. John Capel, Esq. John Coley, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S. Two Copies. Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., F.S.A. William Cnbitt, Esq., ... Charles Fletcher, M.A. Rev. Dr. Fellowes Charles F. Forbes, M.D., F.L.S. John ...
Australia's Democracy: A Short History

Australia's Democracy: A Short History

John Hirst

The full story of Australia's democracy from one of our leading historians.
Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the ...

Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the ...

Kirsten McKenzie

With Ell ́e awaiting orders at the Customs House, Cooke tried to persuade Pigou to take another servant – first offering to ... Edwards drew up Cooke's written complaint, and according to the usual procedure Van Ryneveld summoned Blair to ...
Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New ...

Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New ...

John Bradley Hirst

The workings of the convict system and how a penal colony changed into a free society.

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