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Setting the Scene --The Creation of Social Order is Irreducibly a Moral Project --The Relationship Between the Economic System and the Social Order --A Brief Account of the Historical Origins of Economic Fundamentalism --A Critique of the Conceptual Foundations of Economic Fundamentalism --The Privileged Status of 'Science' --What, Then, Can We Say of the Status of Economics? --The Critique of Neoclassical Economics and its Influence on Policy Decisions --The Doctrine of Freedom of Contract --Some Normative Reflections.

1.The Road to Russell --External Affairs 1945 --International Security Issues: 1950 and beyond --Defence Management in the 1950s: A view from Canberra --External Affairs and Defence cooperation --The grip of the past in the strategic outlook --America's definition of the ANZUS obligation --Interlude in India --After India: Where to move? --The Defence Department appointment --Defence Minister Fraser: His strategic outlook --The scope of the Defence Group empire --Five Defence Group Ministries: Previous unsuccessful reforms --Managing the Department with limited powers --Fraser's initiatives--and conflicts with Gorton --Gorton the Defence Minister --Fairbairn: Minister for Defence 1971 --The Department's 1972 'Defence Review': New ideas --Final months of McMahon's Coalition Government --2.Labor in Office --Labor's policies --Consultations and plans for merging five Departments --Strategy for making the changes --Abolition of the Service Boards: Reasons --Direct discussion--The Secretary and four Service Chiefs: Conclusions reached --Civilians and Service Officers: Their relative authority --Ministerial acceptance of the Recommendations --Members of Parliament and others: Reactions in Parliament and elsewhere--extent of command power --Some objectives not achieved --Interim arrangements--changes needed in the Department --Managing the Department--The 1973 political environment --Disclosure of the American presence--Conflict with Labor Left --The Joint US-Australian Defence Facilities --Limited disclosure on Pine Gap and Nurrungar --Labor's problem with the North West Cape Naval Communications Station --The Lloyd affair--Barnard's rebuke of Tange --Redefining the threat basis for Defence planning --Barnard's negotiations with Washington --Other decisions for Barnard --New problems for the Defence Department under Labor --Reshaping the force structure under Barnard --The Darwin cyclone --A retrospect on Barnard --Whitlam's Royal Commission: Enquiry into Intelligence Services --Reflections looking back: Whitlam and the Central Intelligence Agency --The 1975 changes: A new Minister, Chiefs of Staff and 'the Dismissal' --3.The Early Fraser Ministry --James Killen, Minister for Defence --Problems to overcome in the new system --Public perceptions in the politics of Defence --Differing views on our strategic interests --President Carter and the Indian Ocean --Inflation: Its consequences for Defence in the 1970s --Differences with the Royal Commission on Intelligence --Experiences serving Malcolm Fraser --A refuge in the mountains --The Defence Science Laboratories: Management --Planning the Defence Force Academy: Obstacles --Using soldiers in support of police --Final months in the Department --The gap between the strategic guidance and Defence preparations --Personnel policies and practices in the Services --Defamatory media fabrications --Post retirement experiences --On serving Ministers --Reflections on a personal journey.

Foreword /Kim C. Beazley --Introduction: Australia and Cyber-warfare --The Australian Defence Force and Network Centric Warfare --Information Warfare--Attack and Defence --Targeting Information Infrastructures --Protecting Information Infrastructures --An Australian Cyber-warfare Centre.

Introduction: Analysing and categorising political parties in the Pacific Islands /Roland Rich --Primordial politics? Political parties and tradition in Melanesia /Steven Ratuva --Political consequences of Pacific Island electoral laws /Jan Fraenkel --Anatomy of political parties in Timor-Leste /Joao M. Saldanha --Political parties in Papua New Guinea /R.J. May --parties, constitutional engineering and governance in the Solomon Islands /Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka --The origins and effects of party fragmentation in Vanuatu /Michael G. Morgan --Parties and the new political logic in New Caledonia /Alaine Canter --Fiji : party politics in the post-independence period /Alumita Duruntalo --The establishment and operation of Samoa's political party system /Asofu So'o.

Nation-building in Australia: a discourse, iconic project or tradition of resonance? /John Wanna --The unfinished business of nation-building /John Butcher --In the wake of economic reform ... new prospects for nation-building? /Michael Pusey --The challenge of teaching Australian history /Anna Clark --A passion for white elephants: some lessons from Australia's experience of nation building /Richard Evans --Populate, parch and panic: two centuries of dreaming about nation-building in inland Australia /Robert Wooding --Australia's fiscal straitjacket /Fred Argy --The 'Building Better Cities' program 1991-96: a nation-building initiative of the Commonwealth Government /Lyndsay Neilson --Stumbling towards nation-building: impediments to progress /Anthony F. Shepherd --Broadbanding the nation: lessons from Canada or shortcomings in Australian federalism? /Michael de Percy --Re-imagining the Australian state: political structures and policy strategies /Ian Marsh.

A failure of public administration? --The regime of contestability --Individual performance management and assessment and 'assumption cultures' --Devolution --Aligning the service: the impact of workplace relations --To market, to market: outsourcing the public service --Reforming the reforms?

Introduction.Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems /Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand --Lapita Origins.The Origins of Early Lapita Culture: The testimony of historical linguistics /Andrew Pawley --Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago /Jim Specht --Lapita Dispersal and Archaeological Signatures.Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea /Jim Specht and Robin Torrence --Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the Austronesian Colonisation of the Papuan South Coast /Glenn Summerhayes and Jim Allen --Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent evidence from the Lapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands /Matthew Felgate --Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz Lapita Sequence /Peter Sheppard and Roger C. Green --Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu): A new Lapita site in the ambit of New Britain obsidian distribution /Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Mary Clare Swete Kelly --Echoes from a distance: Research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji /Patrick Nunn --Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'Uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga /William R. Dickinson --In Search of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware Settlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga /David V. Burley --Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga: A first look from Falevai /Sean P. Connaughton --Lapita Ceramics.The implements of Lapita ceramic stamped ornamentation /Wallace Ambrose --The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu /Stuart Bedford [and others] --Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs: Case studies from the Reef/Santa Cruz sites and New Caledonia Lapita Site 13A /Scarlett Chiu --Looking at the big motifs: A typology of the central band decorations of the Lapita ceramic tradition of New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia) and preliminary regional comparisons /Christophe Sand --Specialisation, standardisation and Lapita ceramics /Geoffrey Clark.

Producing powerful numbers --Preparing for the 2006 enumeration at the Darwin Census Management Unit --A vast improvement: the 2006 enumeration in the Alice Springs town camps --Mobility and its consequences: the 2006 enumeration in the north-east Arnhem Land region --Whose census? Institutional constraints on the Indigenous Enumeration Strategy at Wadeye --What sort of town is Fitzroy Crossing? Logistical and boundary problems of the 2006 enumeration in the southern Kimberley --After the count and after the fact: at the Darwin Census Management Unit --The transformation of input into output: at the Melbourne Data Processing Centre --Accommodating agency and contingency: towards an extended strategy for engagement --Appendix A.The 2006 Interviewer Household Form --Appendix B.Commentary on the 2006 Interviewer Household Form.

Self-Reliant Defence: The First Cut.The Self-Reliant Defence of Australia: The History of an Idea /Paul Dibb --Global Issues.Global Change and Strategic Priorities /Coral Bell --Restoring Utility to Armed Force in the 21st Century /Robert O'Neill --The Rise of China: History as Policy /Wang Gungwu --Whither the United States and Unipolarity? /Ron Huisken --Regional Issues.The 'Arc of Instability': The History of an Idea /Graeme Dobell --Jihadism and 'The Battle of Ideas' in Indonesia: Critiquing Australian Counterterrorism /Greg Fealy --Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region /Brendan Taylor --Australian Strategic and Defence Issues.The Challenge of Coherence: Strategic Guidance, Capability, and Budgets /Mark Thomson --The Higher Command Structure for Joint ADF Operations /David Horner --Four Decades of the Defence of Australia: Reflections on Australian Defence Policy over the Past 40 Years /Hugh White.

Introduction: Roots of conflict in the Southern Highlands /Nicole Haley and Ronald J. May --The national government and the Southern Highlands since the 2002 general elections /Joseph Dorpar and Jim Macpherson --The setting: Land, economics and development in the Southern Highlands /Bryant Allen --The Southern Highlands: A hasty transition from unknown to riches and chaos /Joe R. Kanekane --Cosmology, Morality and Resource Development: SHP election outcomes and moves to establish a separate Hela Province /Nicole Haley --'Hoo-Ha in Huli': Considerations on commotion and community in the Southern Highlands /Laurence Goldman --Issues of stability in the Southern Highlands Province /Laurie Bragge --The future of resource development in the Southern Highlands /Chris Warrilow --Community-based development in Tari -- present and prospects /John Vail --A brief overview of government, law and order, and social matters in the Tari District /Noel H. Walters --Porgera Joint Venture's presence in the Southern Highlands Province /Kai Lavu --What if they don't want your kind of development? Reflections on the Southern Highlands /Maev O'Collins --Conflict vulnerable assessment of the Southern Highlands Province /Neryl Lewis --An Inside Post-mortem on the Southern Highlands: A perspective from Tari /Philip Moya.