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APINEWS Media Law Handbook

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

This fifth edition of Joseph Fernandez's popular and accessible study considers the laws that impact on freedom of speech in Australia. It is an indispensable guide for journalism and publishing students and professionals. This text incorporates discussion of recent amendments including the law pertaining to journalists' confidential sources. (ISBN 978-1-920-84545-2, paperback, 260 pp). To order, please contact Network Books at 08 9266 3717 with your order details.

APINEWS Discordant Notes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

Journal of Australian Studies 88
Bart Ziino Who Owns Gallipoli? Australia's Gallipoli Anxieties 1915-2005, Sue Lovell, 'Dew to the Soul': One Australian Artist's Response to War, Peter Kirkpatrick Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution and the Art of Recitation, Felicity Plunkett 'You Make Me a Dot in the Nowhere': Textual Encounters in the Australian Immigration Story (the Fourth Chapter), Bridget Griffen-Foley From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: Foreign Language Broadcasting on Australian Commercial Radio, Part I, Emily Pollnitz Writing the 'Long-Haired Frustrates' Back into the History of the Wiener Schnitzel Society: Musica Viva, 1945-52, Rae Wear The Populist Message of Australian Country Music, John Ramsland and Valerie Djenidi Vue de Sydney 1840, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey Bitumen Films in Postcolonial Australia, Loretta de Plevitz 'Walking the Wire of Prejudice': The Flying Fruit Fly Circus's 2004 Production of Skipping on Stars, Gwenyth Rankin, No Flowers, or Trustees, by Request: Bernard Hall and the Felton Bequest, David Wetherell A Bishop's Wife in Torres Strait: Joan Davies 1930'49, Murray Johnson 'Feathered Foes': Soldier Settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932.
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APINEWS Our Patch

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

How is Australian sovereignty being acted out at home and abroad in the second century of federation? In this agenda setting book, Suvendrini Perera brings together leading thinkers to map the imaginative and political space claimed as� 'Our Patch'. Contributions by Tim Anderson, Ruth Balint, Anthony Burke, Maxine Chi, Maria Giannacopoulos, Suvendrini Perera, Henry Reynolds, Jon Stratton, Dinesh Wadiwel and Irene Watson. To order, please contact Network Books at 08 9266 3717 with your order details.

APINEWS Senor Pilich

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

This is the saga of Senor Pilich and how he saved the monastery. Senor Pilich, monastery cat extraordinaire, is struck by the sinister Mr Dreggs. Struck by his boot, that is. 'Mr Dreggs, a thief, was at large in the monastery. He was a confidence man. He was overly interested in valuable and historic things. He looked suspicious, acted suspiciously and, above all evils, he did not like cats. Dreggs was a positive threat to the place. He had to go.' Se�or Pilich and his friends foil� Dreggs at every turn in a hilarious adventure which causes mayhem throughout the monastery. Meanwhile, monastic life in New Norcia continues to follow the Rule of St Benedict. To order, please contact Network Books at 08 9266 3717 with your order details.

API Dialogue

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

The Australian Public Intellectual Network is conducting a survey on the best minds in the country: these might include academics, writers, activists, professionals, religious leaders, politicians, community leaders, etc. The API Network keen to know who you might rank as the ten most influential and/or important thinkers in Australia at this present moment? You may want to make a distinction between importance and influence in compiling your list. Are there reasons for your selection?

API Review of Books

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

Issue 44
Features reviews by Kathleen Broderick, Linn Miller, Christine Choo, Bill Thorpe, David Ritter, Eve Vincent, Stephanie Bishop, Alison Miles, Richard Kay, Amanda Day, Bernard Whimpress, Mads Clausen, Marion May Campbell, Sylvia Alston, Catie Gilchrist, Eva Chapman, Lucy Dougan, Stephen Lawrence and Nathanael O'Reilly. Click here for more details.

Altitude

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

Popular Music: Practices, Formations and Change - Australian Perspectives
The papers collected here in this special edition of Altitude offer a brief snapshot of popular music research broadly connected with Australia. The essays demonstrate the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used by researchers in the fields of popular music studies and cultural studies to explore themes of popular music practice, formation and change in an Australian context. Click here for more details.