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• Foreword; Contents; Family; Life; Politics.

Ruehl's irreverent wit and ability to puncture pretentiousness with a well-turned phrase gave thousands of dedicated readers a good reason to read the paper back to front on the days the column appeared. His descriptions of growing up with teenage children are laugh-out-loud funny (well, for parents), and a younger generation of readers decided he was cool, with his constant satirical references to their music, dress and approach to life. Politicians sometimes winced but knew his hilarious descriptions of what was really going on in Canberra resonated more loudly than any press release. Peter Ruehl never lost his distinctive American style but he was able to understand Australian culture and to write about it and his views in a passionately funny and deeply personal way. Greg Hywood, chief executive of Fairfax, says he became a 'national institution'.
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• Understanding the gold rush-- wealth-- order-- agrarianism and pastoral-- domesticity-- excitement.
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This work provides a reassessment of gold rushes in California, USA and Victoria, Australia in the middle of the 19th century. Goodman sets out to look beyond the mechanics of digging for gold, beyond the fortunes and failures that are the stuff of most histories of this time, to the meanings which these tumultuous social events had for the societies which experienced them. These were times which threatened established values of home and society, of family life, religion and the Protestant work ethic.
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• Part 1 Local and global cultures: migrants or citizens? cities, immigrants and integration-- multiculturalism-- past, present and future.
• Part 2 The refugees: the setting Lebanese immigration-- migration and the urban process-- family-- community-- proletarianisation-- conclusion.
• Part 3 The Lebanese heritage: making the Lebanese nation state-- making the Lebanese - proletarianisation and pluralism-- religion and the Lebanese state-- unmaking Lebanon -civil war and localism-- conclusion.
• Part 4 Lebanese families: kinship practices-- unmarried women-- wives-- keeping the courts out of the home.
• Part 5 Community and identity in the city.
• Part 6 Islam, multiculturalism and the global city: multiculturalism and urban consciousness-- Islam and multiculturalism.
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The migration of people is now increasingly about the internationalization of citizenship rather than the cultural or class homogenization of people in nation states. The Lebanese - the oldest and one of the largest of the contemporary diasporas whose movement across the globe is based on labour migration - provide a particularly rich context in which the subject can be explored. This book describes how Lebanese migrants have created their households, organized reciprocity in family life, formed urban communities, become workers, defined sectarian identities, transmitted religious cultures, and established Islamic institutions.
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• FOREWORD;
• PART 1. The Impace of the Gold Rushes;
• 1. Changing lives: Aboriginal people in the Leonora region, 1869-1940: The first encounters; PART II. The Mines;
• 3. The industry and labour at the Sons of Gwalia mine; Voices from the Sons of Gwalia;
• 4. Mining and processing at the Sons of Gwalia mine;
• 5. The Gwalia woodline;
• 6. Fortune and failure: Other mines, other metals; PART III. Pastoralism and Aboriginal People;
• 8. `'Good times and bad times right through': Pastoralism in the Shire of Leonora;
• 9. Changing times: Aboriginal people in the Leonora region, 1940-2008.

• PART IV. Living in Leonora and Gwalia10. Leonora and Gwalia; Family Life;
• 11. Settlers and sojourners: Gwalia's Italian community;
• 12. Camels, carting and conflict: Afghans in Leonora 1896-1946; The Wars Come;
• 13. Qualified for any emergency: Nursing and medical care; Sporting Life; ENDNOTES; ORAL HISTORY PROGJECT: Leonora/Gwalia; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

The goldfields have been a powerful influence on both Australian and Western Australian history. Gold has driven development in many parts of Australia. A great number of family lives have been shaped by migration to and from the fields. Reminiscences, and family and local histories have produced powerful and oft-repeated narratives. This book moves beyond the oft-told. It tells of Aboriginal history, of people who have 'always been here, and we always will be here'. Women's and children's lives are explored as well as those of prospectors and miners, the settlement of 'Afghans' and the story o.

• FOREWORD;
• PART 1. The Impace of the Gold Rushes;
• 1. Changing lives: Aboriginal people in the Leonora region, 1869-1940: The first encounters; PART II. The Mines;
• 3. The industry and labour at the Sons of Gwalia mine; Voices from the Sons of Gwalia;
• 4. Mining and processing at the Sons of Gwalia mine;
• 5. The Gwalia woodline;
• 6. Fortune and failure: Other mines, other metals; PART III. Pastoralism and Aboriginal People;
• 8. `'Good times and bad times right through': Pastoralism in the Shire of Leonora;
• 9. Changing times: Aboriginal people in the Leonora region, 1940-2008.

• PART IV. Living in Leonora and Gwalia10. Leonora and Gwalia; Family Life;
• 11. Settlers and sojourners: Gwalia's Italian community;
• 12. Camels, carting and conflict: Afghans in Leonora 1896-1946; The Wars Come;
• 13. Qualified for any emergency: Nursing and medical care; Sporting Life; ENDNOTES; ORAL HISTORY PROGJECT: Leonora/Gwalia; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

The goldfields have been a powerful influence on both Australian and Western Australian history. Gold has driven development in many parts of Australia. A great number of family lives have been shaped by migration to and from the fields. Reminiscences, and family and local histories have produced powerful and oft-repeated narratives. This book moves beyond the oft-told. It tells of Aboriginal history, of people who have 'always been here, and we always will be here'. Women's and children's lives are explored as well as those of prospectors and miners, the settlement of 'Afghans' and the story o.

• 1. Mapping complexity: a transcultural approach.-
• 2. Historical outline.-
• 3. Work and socio-economic mobility.-
• 4. Racism and racial ambiguity in a settler colonial context.-
• 5. Family and generational negotiations.-
• 6. Transnational ideologies and transcultural practices.-
• 7. Concluding remarks.
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This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years. It focuses on crucial aspects of the migratory experience, including work and socio-economic mobility, disorientation and reorientation, gender and sexual identities, racism, sexism, family life, aged care, language, religion, politics, and ethnic media. The history of Italians in Australia is re-framed through key theoretical concepts, including transculturation, transnationalism, decoloniality, and intersectionality. This book challenges common assumptions about the Italian-Australian community, including the idea that migrants are `stuck' in the past, and the tendency to assess migrants' worth according to their socio-economic success and their alleged contribution to the Nation. It focuses instead on the complex, intense, inventive, dynamic, and resilient strategies developed by migrants within complex transcultural and transnational contexts. In doing so, this book provides a new way of rethinking and remembering the history of Italians in Australia.
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• Figures Acknowledgments Map of Australia Introduction: Aboriginal Children and Young People in Focus PART I: CHILDHOOD ACROSS TIME: HISTORICAL AND LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES
• Chapter 1. 'Less was hidden among these children': Geza Roheim, Anthropology and the Politics of Aboriginal Childhood John Morton
• Chapter 2. Envisioning Lives at Ernabella Katrina Tjitayi and Sandra Lewis
• Chapter 3. Warungka: Becoming and Un-becoming a Warlpiri Person Yasmine Musharbash
• Chapter 4. Fathers and Sons, Trajectories of Self - Reflections on Pintupi Lives and Futures Fred R. Myers PART II: STORIES, LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SPACE Chapter 5.Sand Storytelling - Its Social Meaning in Anangu Children's Lives Ute Eickelkamp Chapter 6.Young Children's Social Meaning-Making in a New Mixed Language Carmel O'Shannessey Appendix Chapter 7.The Yard Craig San Roque PART III: YOUTH, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
• Chapter 8. Organization within Disorder - The Present and Future of Young People in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands David Brooks
• Chapter 9. Being Mardu: Change and Challenge for Some Western Desert Young People Today Myrna Tonkinson
• Chapter 10. Invisible and Visible Loyalties in Racialized Contexts: A Systemic Perspective on Aboriginal Youth Marika Moisseeff Appendix Notes on Contributors References Index.
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"This excellent volume presents...a rich and timely collection of essays on contemporary Aboriginal childhood and youth, each chapter being grounded on extensive ethnographic experiences and studies...It is an original contribution to a growing field, namely the anthropology of childhood and youth...and offers 'food for thought' and a range of perspectives which allow the reader to better appreciate Aboriginal lives, challenges and points of view." * Sylvie Poirier, Universite Laval, Quebec Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities - roughly 1,200 across the continent - the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show that forms of consciousness have changed enormously over the last hundred years for Indigenous societies more so than for the rest of Australia, yet equally notable are the continuities across generations.
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• Cover
• Praise
• Author biography
• Title page
• Imprint page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• 1: My Bloodâ#x80; #x99; s Country
• 2: The Power of Lake Pedder: Awakening
• 3: Saving the Franklin: Empowerment
• 4: Wesley Vale: First Steps in Activism
• 5: The Case of Port Arthur: Gun Law Reform
• 6: Pride
• 7: Demolishing Democracy: Dirty Tricks
• 8: Being a Woman in Politics
• 9: In Praise of Knitted Berets
• 10: Climate in a Bottle
• 11: Global Citizenship and World Heritage
• 12: What Price Carbon?
• 13: Art as Activism

• 14: Backpacking and Beyond: Sri Lanka15: Seeking Asylum
• 16: Leadership and the Importance of Timing
• 17: The Tasmanian Activism App
• 18: Green Leadership
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements
• About the illustrator
• Picture section
• Notes
• Index

-- is the story of an apparently ordinary woman & ndash; a high-school English teacher from northwest Tasmania & ndash; who became a fiery environmental warrior, pitted against some of the most powerful business and political forces in the country. In it, Christine Milne tells her story through the objects that have symbolic meaning in both her personal and political life, from the butter pats in her kitchen that represent her journey from farm girl at Wesley Vale to environmental and human rights activist at the national and global level, to the Pride t-shirt she wore walking in Mardi Gras next to her son, after years of fighting for the legal reform of gay rights in Tasmania. She describes how politics actually works: the deals, the promises kept and broken, the horse-trading and treachery involved in some of the most controversial and difficult issues of our time, including the attempts to forge a workable and effective climate change policy for Australia, and Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. This is a fascinating insider's account of what it means to be a woman in politics: the sacrifices of family life and relationships, the relentless misogyny and sexism that must be endured, the gritty conviction that you must never, ever give up the pursuit of the greater good. It is the story of Australian politics and the fight to save the world, and essential reading for anyone who cares about either.

There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they wanted to serve as pilots, which meant enlisting in Britain, Annie Montgomerie decreed that the whole family would go too. So from 1916 to 1919 they lived in London, facing Zeppelin attacks, giving hospitality to young New Zealand friends who left to fight and sometimes never came back, watching Oswald and Seton go off to war, and suffering in the influenza epidemic. Through all this Annie kept a diary, in which she recorded her deep love and concern for her family, her hatred of the war, her forthright, amusing and proudly Kiwi views on the English, and myriad fascinating details about wartime London life. Annie's granddaughter, Susanna Montgomerie Norris, has transcribed and edited this extraordinary account, along with many letters and diary excerpts from her pilot father, Seton. Richly illustrated with contemporary photographs and other memorabilia, Annie's War offers a unique and compelling view of a crucial time in world history. Susanna spent many years transcribing and working on her grandmother Annie's diaries, which were discovered by her cousin, John Montgomerie, who has also supplied a large number of the photos used.
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