Authors:Maria Barbera, Jane Baxter, William Birkett,
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: management, resource, series, strategic, insights, accounting, innovative, practice
Number of Pages: 57
Published: 1999-09
List price: $11.50
ISBN-10: 0868407054
ISBN-13: 9780868407050

This book documents innovations at the cutting edge of contemporary Australian management accounting practice. These innovations are directed towards finding ways to do more with less resources, while responding creatively to existing business problems and contributing to the value-adding potential of organisations.

Author: Charles Birch
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: feelings
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 086840151X
ISBN-13: 9780868401515

Charles Birch’s proposition is that feelings cannot be reduced to physics and chemistry, yet are as real as physics and chemistry. He raises the questions of feelings, not only in humans, but in all living creatures, including the claims of some that computers may have feelings.

Author: Fiona Allon
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: home, obsession, nation, renovation
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0868408786
ISBN-13: 9780868408781

Renovation Nation asks why Australians have become so wrapped up in their homes. It explores the ways they are distorting their lives in the pursuit of prestige and tax-free capital gains as they play the real estate game with mindless passion. Fixated on interest rates and surrounded by headlines about housing affordability, they remain determined to make their homes bigger and better. The great Australian dream of owning a home seems to have become the great Australian nightmare. But what about the national home? Is anxiety about safety and security, about keeping the "wrong" people out of A

Author: John Williams
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: war, media, anzacs
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0868405698
ISBN-13: 9780868405698

The Anzac Legend is examined here as a media-based phenomenon. Using newspaper reports of the Great War from Australian, British, French, and German sources, John Williams reveals how the media operated during that first experience of total war

Author: Mark Bachels
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: new, zealand, australia, policy, rethinking, transport, track
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 086840411X
ISBN-13: 9780868404110

Australia’s freight transport system now has the highest proportion of truck use of any developed country in the world, and with New Zealand, its cities are heavily dependent on cars. - Back on Track considers the historic, economic and political issues that have led to this situation, and concludes that the emergence of such a strongly road-oriented system has not been in the national interest, on both economic and environmental grounds. - It develops a detailed analysis of Australia’s ’road transport deficit’. - The authors suggest that rail is the neglected element i

Author: Michael Webber
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: clothing, footwear, industry, textile, australia, rag, trade, internationalising, refashioning
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 086840540X
ISBN-13: 9780868405407

Since the early 1980s, successive Australian governments have adhered to a national industry strategy of ’international competitiveness’. - Underwritten by the rise of neo-classical economics (or economic rationalism) it included the removal of tariffs, quotas and other protection and the wholesale restructure of many manufacturing industries. - The authors trace the history of the changes as they were applied to Australia’s textiles clothing and footwear industries, describing both the nature and extent of the transformation of the industry and then considering the consequen

Author: Tara Brabazon
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: jack, tracking
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0868406996
ISBN-13: 9780868406992

This work assesses the social, economic, political and cultural relationship between Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The book traces the movements of the "Jack"—the Union Jack, which represents the symbolic tie between "home" and the outer reaches of the empire—from flags to Doc Martens and fashion to food packaging. While much rhetoric emerges of Australia’s place in Asia and New Zealand’s role in the Pacific, this book investigates the far more complex histories that encircle the region. It is not only, or even primarily, an investigation of social systems or p