Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his ...

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not prac...

This second edition of the Companion now includes the following topics: Australian Aboriginal Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Science; and Th...

The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in c...

Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry...

Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he en...

More than ever before, students have the option of studying abroad. The character of the higher education experience in many countries has been dra...

Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü, his family and fellow villagers of Khonoma, fled for their lives to the jungles of Nagaland in 1956. All survived privation...

A pedagogy of place refers to an alternative vision for outdoor education practice. This timely book, A Pedagogy of Place, calls into question some...

They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a ...

In A Secret Australia, eighteen independent and prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learned about itself from the WikiLeaks revelation...

Raimond Gaita was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Antwerp for his exceptional contribution to contemporary moral philosophy...

17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...

The trishaw was introduced to Singapore after the surrender of the British in 1942. After the end of the war, the trishaw continued to be a popular...

Cambodia's Hun Sen is the world's longest-serving prime minister, in power since 1985. In 2013, Sen's rule came under threat when the exiled opposi...

On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to t...

Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, ...

The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists,...

In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory’s Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land...

Timor-Leste's independence was forged at a time when international developmental theory had rejected top down approaches and recognised the importa...

Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights s...

This book examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with t...

Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before. It’s hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash w...

An Imperial Affair, by awardwinning author John Rickard, takes us into the marriage of an Australian couple during a time when private lives were p...