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Book Launches
Drinks will be
served at 5:30pm before the formal launch at 6:00pm. For catering
purposes, please RSVP to Lauren Rosewarne.
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Dealing with America
by John Langmore
Can the UN
operate successfully in the post-Iraq war
environment in which one power - the USA - seeks unilateral
dominance?
In this
timely book, John Langmore, a former senior UN staff member and
Australian
MP, looks at the origins of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption, and the
implications for the UN and Australia.
According
to Langmore, the UN is at a defining moment, as crucial as 1945 when
it was founded. Attacks from neoconservatives in President George W.
Bush's
administration, as well as investigations for fraud, have played a
role. In the
midst of this, a high-level panel, including former Australian Foreign
Minister
Gareth Evans, released a detailed set of proposals for reform.
The Secretary-General,
Kofi Annan has used these as the basis for his proposals to the UN
Summit in New York starting on 14
September.
Provocative
and important, this book questions whether the Howard Government's
acquiescence to the policies of the Bush administration is really in
Australia's national interest, and outlines how Australia could
contribute to a
more stable and secure international system.
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John
Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the Political Science
Department. He has been a Lecturer in Economics and Assistant Director
of the National Planning Office in Papua New Guinea; Economic Advisor
to the Australian Treasurer; MP for the ACT seat of Fraser in the
Australian House of Representatives; Director of the UN Division for
Social Policy and Development; and Representative of the International
Labour Organisation to the UN. He has published extensively on
political, economic, social, strategic and environmental issues
relating to Australia, Papua New Guinea and the global context
including the United Nations. His most recent book is Dealing with
America: the UN, the US and Australia, U of NSW Press, 2005. His other
publications include Work for All: Full
Employment in the Nineties (with John Quiggin),
MUP, 1994 He is
currently working on Australia's relations with the UN and the US; and
on innovative sources of finance for development. He will be teaching
'International Organisations and Governance' in the first semester of
2006.
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Australia Fair
by Hugh Stretton
Hugh
Stretton's latest
book
Australia Fair
argues that we
should be doing whatever it takes to keep Australia fair. As one of Australia's leading thinkers,
Stretton
draws on
a lifetime of research and commonsense in his blueprint for making a
better Australia.
Hugh
Stretton argues that it is possible to contrive fuller
and more fairly shared employment, and to enable most households to own
or rent
the household space and equipment they need in order to do the things
they want
to do. He argues that we can continue women's progress to genuine
equality at
home and at work and reconcile it with parenting that elicits the best
from and
for our children. He also backs some
neglected
proposals to improve our transfer of income to our
non-earning
years. Finally, the book suggests how we might respond if dwindling
supplies of
oil, coal and other natural resources reverse our economic growth.
Ambitious
and yet highly practical, the book sets out a plan
for achieving these goals. It demolishes many of our closely held
assumptions while
describing the kind of country that most
of us would want to live in.
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Hugh
Stretton
was a Professor of History and is now a visiting research fellow in the
School of Economics, for whose hospitality he is deeply grateful. His
only degree was a B.A., which in Oxford became an M.A. without further
work. He sampled other disciplines as a visiting fellow at Princeton,
and has made the growth and influence of the twentieth-century social
sciences his main subject of study. He taught modern British and
European history and the history of ideas (including social scientist's
ideas) at Balliol College, Smith College and the University of
Adelaide. He is a fellow of the Australian academies of the humanities
and the social sciences.
He
is the author of Ideas for Australian
Cities (1970,
reprinted numerous times); Capitalism,
Socialism and the
Environment (1976); Political
Essays (1987); Public
Goods, Public Enterprise,
Public Choice (with Lionel
Orchard, 1994) and Economics: A New
Introduction (2000).
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