More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary
More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary

Author: Pat Manser

Publisher: Macquarie

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1760981095

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'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, the jargon of merchants, swearwords, Australianisms, as well as the basic core of English vocabulary.' The idea for a dictionary of Australian English was conceived in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first edition of the Macquarie Dictionary was published. More Than Words tells the story of how the dictionary was brought to life during this period -- from identifying the need for a genuinely Australian dictionary to the long road towards publication -- and explores how the dictionary has evolved over the years since then.

Australian Politics
Australian Politics

Author: John Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Student guide to references such as journal articles, memoirs, academic texts and other source material on Australian politics, first published in 1991 as the 'Australian Politics Notebook'. This second edition has been updated and includes additional references, comments on the 1993 elections, a profile of Paul Keating, and a new topic on political theory. Its seven chapters cover Federal parliament, the Cabinet, elections, parties, regional government and the public service. Five appendices include a chronology from 1945 to 1993, election dates and results, and the Constitution. Includes a glossary. The author is a senior lecturer in politics at Deakin University.

On Charlatans
On Charlatans

Author: Chris Bowen

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0733645240

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Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say 'I don't hold a hose, mate' or who advocate that we drink bleach to fight COVID-19? Chris Bowen, who was set to be Treasurer had Labor won the 2019 federal election, has had plenty of time to think about what went wrong and about why charlatans are winning in the game of politics. For charlatans, the road to political success is paved with dishonesty, disunity, fake news and empty promises. Selling themselves as a new and different alternative to traditional politicians, charlatans have decimated centre-left political parties around the world but offer no solutions to the concerns of the ordinary people who they dupe into voting for them. Between Trump's disastrous final weeks in the White House, the United Kingdom's total COVID-19 meltdown under Boris and the three-word slogans driving Scotty from Marketing's policies, Chris Bowen's dissection of the politics of charlatanism and his stirring call to defeat it has never been more urgent.

Consuming Pleasures
Consuming Pleasures

Author: John Rainford

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Published: 2010-05-14

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1921696737

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Tracing the international and Australian history of both licit and illicit drug use, this investigation combines the topic of drug use with analyses of political power, the rise of the market, and social issues. It examines the way in which drug consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade by first looking at the start of the opium-growing industry and the racist origins of drug laws. Providing a social history of drug use through the lens of international politics, market forces, medicine, and race, this discussion also considers the paradox of contemporary, white Australian identity and an Australia as a nation of people whose per capita drug consumption often equals and surpasses that of most other nations.