When is a suburb not a suburb? When it is an inner-urban locale with a distinctive café culture, its own postcode and football team, but no town hall. And here’s another: how did an Old English word meaning ‘churl’s farm’ ...

"Reflections in Glass" is an important book for anyone seeking to understand the background to the current world Anglican crisis, as well as the more localised disputes that erupt from time to time between Australian Anglicans.

Despite the methodological issues inherent in research into the history of litigation, the findings of the contributors in "Litigation: Past and Present" are nonetheless significant and serve to undermine contemporary ...

Writing of cinematographer Damien Parer’s untimely death in 1944, war correspondent Chester Wilmot paid tribute to him as ‘a fine man as well as a brilliant photographer. He made the camera speak as no other man I’ve ever ...

This book is mostly based on proceedings at an anthropology conference at the ANU in 2002. It 'aims to bring knowledge of the Hmong to a wider public and contribute to the understanding of these people'. The sections by ...

Finally, it seems that honesty is what Kroll and Rowland are after. Of course, theorists could argue that, in poetry, honesty is the most deceitful pose. But insofar as these collections represent their views, it seems ...

Crime fiction offers various pleasures but rarely those of innovation, and that is the case with these three very different books from three veterans of the genre — familiar pleasures. "Degrees of Connection" is a police ...

Even if there is a little hyperbole, the book demonstrates in a readable way how, when it has faced major tests concerning the welfare of the Australian Commonwealth, the High Court has usually come down on the side of ...

One of the puzzles of Australia’s diplomatic service is the comparative lack of informative memoirs by senior diplomats. Of the sixteen heads of Foreign Affairs mentioned in this book, only three apart from Richard Woolcott ...