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Part A
1. Democracy
2. Institutionalism
3. Behaviouralism
4. Critical Theories
5. Discourse Theories and Post-Structuralism
6. International Politics Theories

Part B
7. Political Values and Attitudes
8. Political Socialisation
9. Politics in the Media
10. Politics in Australian Culture

Part C
11. Electoral Rules
12. Political Parties as Electoral Players
13. Campaigns and Campaign Funding
14. Voter Behaviour

Part D
15. Participation and Representation through Political Parties
16. Pressure Groups and Lobbying
17. Consultation and Collaborative Governance
18. New Forms of Participation and Social Movements

Part E
19. Parliament
20. Prime Minister and Ministers
21. Politicisation and the Executive
22. Delivering Public Policy
23. The Courts
24. Federalism

Part F
25. A Bill of Rights
26. Taxing and Spending
27. Education, Training, Work and Life
28. Cities
29. Indigenous Australians
30. Health
31. The Environment
32. Australia and the World


Part A


Chapter 1 Democracy

Michael W. Doyle, Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy, May 23 2001 
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/doyle/

An Interview with David Held, "Exploring the Concepts of Cosmopolitanism and Democracy", Journal of Democractic Theory, January 2011 
http://www.journalofdemocratictheory.com/articles/Vol1Iss1.html

Australian Democracy is broken 
http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/the-talking-point-is-australian-democracy-broken/

Open Democracy Paul Rogers 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/paul-rogers

Akbar Ganji, Islam and Democracy, Conversations with history, 2006 
http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=11934

Isobel Coleman, Democracy in Development, http://blogs.cfr.org/coleman/

Conversations with Amy Chua, The Myths of Globalization Markets, Democracy and Ethnic Hatred, Conversations with History, 
Institute of International Studies, The University of California, Berkeley, January 22, 2004, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUrfo5cyeDA

Lappé, Frances Moore and Du Bois, Paul Martin Living Democracy
http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIPol_LivingDemoc.html

Van Dijk, Jan 1996 Models Of Democracy: Behind The Design and Use of New Media In Politics The Electronic Journal of Communication 6: 2
http://www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/006/2/00629.HTML

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Chapter 2 Institutionalism

Institutionalism 
http://www.yourdictionary.com/institutionalism

Institutionalism as a Methodology 
http://jtp.sagepub.com/content/15/2/123.short?rss=1&ssource=mfr

Bell, Stephen, “Institutionalism: Old and New” 
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:9699&dsID=Institutionalism.pdf

Hall, Peter and Taylor, Rosemary. 1996 “Political science and the three new institutionalisms”, Political Studies 44http://chenry.webhost.utexas.edu/core/Course%20Materials/Hall%26TaylorPolStuds/9705162186.pdf

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Chapter 3 Behaviouralism

Behaviouralism 
http://www.encyclopedia69.com/eng/d/behaviouralism/behaviouralism.htm

Behaviouralism 
http://mcnutt.tm.mbs.ac.uk/finance/behaviouralism-or-economics-tnt-replaces-economics-101/

BEHAVIORALISM
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/tutkimus/julkaisut/verkko/behavior.htm

Heaney, Michael T. and Hansen, John Mark, 2006. “Building the Chicago School”
American Political Science Review November 
http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/APSRNov06Heaney_Hansen.pdf 

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Chapter 4 Critical Theories

Feminism 
http://feministing.com/

Critical Theory 
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

Marxism 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/367344/Marxism

Feminism
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/austra.html#General 
http://radfemspeak.net/the-fury/ 

Marxism
http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/biogs/E000355b.htm 
http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/category/socialism-marxism

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Chapter 5 Discourse Theories and Post-Structuralism

Northern Territory Emergency Response 
http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/indigenous/progserv/ntresponse/Pages/default.aspx

An interview with Ernesto Laclau and Chantalle Mouffe 
http://anselmocarranco.tripod.com/id68.html

Jacques Derrida 
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/

Michel Foucault 
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

Discourse Analysis
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/discourse.htm 

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Chapter 6 International Politics Theories

Marxism 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/367344/Marxism

Liberalism 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/339173/liberalism

Political Realism 
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-intl-relations/

The IR Theory Knowledge Base 
http://www.irtheory.com/know.htm

Walt, Stephen M., 1998 International relations: One world, many theories Foreign Policy, Spring
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/S6800/courseworks/foreign_pol_walt.pdf
 

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Part B



7 Political Values and Attitudes

Values Australia 
http://valuesaustralia.com/blog/tag/australian-political-values/

Australian Values 
http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/values/

About Australia 
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/sys_gov.html

Beyond Right and Left 
http://beyondrightandleft.com.au/archives/2006/08/rethinking_poli.html

McAllister, Ian & Clark, Juliet 2008 Trends in Australian Political Opinion: Results from the
Australian Election Study, 1987-2007
http://assda.anu.edu.au/aestrends.pdf 

Leigh, Andrew 2004, Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/Leigh.pdf 

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8 Political Socialisation

Youth Electoral Study (YES) - Report 3: 2. Political Socialisation, Political Learning and the Family
http://www.aec.gov.au/about_aec/publications/youth_study/youth_study_3/page02.htm

Political Socialisation as the driving factor for political engagement and political participation (working paper)
http://www.elecdem.eu/media/universityofexeter/elecdem/pdfs/amsterdamwksp/Steve_Schwarzer_Political_socialization.pdf

Ian McAllister Civic Education and Political Knowledge
in Australia
http://wopared.parl.net/senate/pubs/pops/pop38/c05.pdf

Harry C. J. Phillips Political Education in Australia : 'Well-Being' for Youth Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Volume 14 | Issue 2 Article 3 1989
http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=ajte  

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9 Politics in the Media

Australian Communications and Media Authority: http://www.acma.gov.au/ 
ABC http://www.abc.net.au 
The Drum http://www.abc.net.au/news/thedrum/ 
AFR http://www.afr.com 
The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au 
The Age http://www.theage.com.au 
The Herald Sun: http://www.heraldsun.com.au 
The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/ 
The Courier Mail: http://www.couriermail.com.au/ 
Google News: http://news.google.com.au/ 
The Daily Telegraph: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ 
Sky News: http://news.sky.com/ 
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/ 
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/ 
CNET: http://news.cnet.com/ 
Adelaide Now: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/

Young, Sally “Politics and the Media in Australia Today”
http://www.aph.gov.au/SEnate/pubs/occa_lect/transcripts/110708/110708.pdf

Bruns, Axel and Adams, Debra, “Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere
Australian Political Blogosphere” http://snurb.info/files/Mapping%20the%20Australian%20Political%20Blogosphere.pdf

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason and Saunders, Barry “Australia’s Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election”
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15116/1/15116.pdf

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10 Politics in Australian Culture

Mardi Gras
http://www.mardigras.org.au/

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation 
http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/

AFL and the Indigenous Community 
http://www.afl.com.au/indigenous%20community/tabid/14282/default.aspx

Indigenous Health 
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre 
http://www.asrc.org.au/

Go back to where you came from 
http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/goback

Pickering, Jonathan Globalisation: A Threat to Australian Culture? 
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/doc/jape48_3.pdf

Saha, Lawrence J. 2004 “Prosocial Behaviour and Political Culture among Australian Secondary School Students” International Education Journal, 5: 1
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/iej/articles/v5n1/saha/paper.pdf

Warhurst, John “Religion in 21st Century Australian National Politics” Australian Senate Occasional Lecture Series
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/pubs/occa_lect/transcripts/050506.pdf

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Part C


Chapter 11 Electoral Rules

Australian Electoral Commission 
http://www.aec.gov.au/index.htm

Electoral Offences 
http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/australian_electoral_system/electoral_procedures/Electoral_Offences.htm

US Elections and Voting 
http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Voting/Learn.shtml

UK Elections and Voting 
http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/

Internet Resource Guide: Electoral Law - Parliament of Australia
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/electorallaw.htm

Electoral Council of Australia (ECA) 
http://www.eca.gov.au/research/index.htm

History & Features of the Australian Electoral System
http://australianpolitics.com/elections/features/ 

Louth, Jonathon & Hill, Louise 2005. Compulsory Voting in Australia: Turnout with and without it, Australian Review of Public Affairs 6:1
http://www.australianreview.net/journal/v6/n1/louth_hill.pdf

Bennett, Scott and Lundie, Rob Australian Electoral Systems Australian Parliamentary Library Research Paper 21 August 2007, no. 5, 2007–08
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/2007-08/08rp05.pdf 

Hill, Lisa and Young, Sally 2006 “Cause and Effect? Informal and Compulsory Voting in Australia”, 
Australasian Political Studies Association Conference University of Newcastle 25-27 September
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Schools/Newcastle%20Business%20School/APSA/ANZPOL/Hill-Lisa-and-Young-Sally.pdf

Farrell, David and McAllister, Ian “Preferential Voting in Australia”
http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/staff/mcallister/pubs/austel.pdf

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Chapter 12 Political Parties as Electoral Players

Registered Australian Political Parties: http://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/registered_parties/index.htm

Australian Labor Party 
www.alp.org.au/

Liberal Party of Australia 
www.liberal.org.au/

The Greens 
http://greens.org.au/

The Australian Sex Party 
http://www.sexparty.org.au/

The Nationals 
http://nationals.org.au/

Rodrigues and Brenton The age of independence? Independents in Australian parliaments 
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/2010-11/11rp04.htm

Jaensch, Brent and Bowden
Australian Political Parties in the Spotlight
http://democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/200501_jaensch_parties.pdf

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Chapter 13 Campaigns and Campaign Funding

Campaign finance in Australia
http://democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/20061026mayerfin.pdf

Campaign finance reform
http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2007/election/lawrence.html

Democracy in Australia – Electoral donations and campaign finance 
http://www.australiancollaboration.com.au/democracy/commentaries/Electoral_Donations.pdf

Unions top election campaign fund register 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-25/unions-top-election-campaign-fund-register/1958156

Strengthening democracy 
http://morethanluck.cpd.org.au/more-than-luck/strengthening-democracy/

PETER CHEN Adoption and use of digital media in election campaigns: Australia, Canada and New Zealand
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/pcr/article/viewFile/1249/1524

Jaensch, Brent and Bowden
Australian Political Parties in the Spotlight
http://democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/200501_jaensch_parties.pdf 

O'Cass and Julian A study of voter psychology http://epubs.scu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1384

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Chapter 14 Voter Behaviour

Voting Behaviour in Australia 
http://australianpolitics.com/elections/behaviour/

Demography and Voting 
http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/voter-behaviour/

Voting behaviour comes under scrutiny in new study 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/04/voters-election-research

Youth Electoral Study 
http://www.aec.gov.au/about_aec/publications/youth_study/youth_study_1/page01.htm

 Martin, Aaron and Pietsch, JulietThe Grey Vote: Do Older Australians Contribute To Or Disrupt The Stability Of The Australian Party System?
http://www.pol.mq.edu.au/apsa/papers/Refereed%20papers/Martin%20Pietsch_TheGreyVote.pdf

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Part D


Chapter 15 Participation and Representation through Political Parties

IDEA 
http://www.idea.int/parties/

Representative Government 
http://australianpolitics.com/key-terms/representative-government

Australian Young Liberals 
http://www.youngliberal.org/

New South Wales Young Labor 
http://www.younglabor.com.au/

Jaensch, Brent and Bowden
Australian Political Parties in the Spotlight
http://democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/200501_jaensch_parties.pdf
 

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Chapter 16 Pressure Groups and Lobbying

Australian Government Lobbyists 
http://lobbyists.pmc.gov.au/

Lobbying as a public affair 
http://www.cpe.qut.edu.au/conferences/2009/anzca/proceedings/Ward_ANZCA09.pdf

Lobbying founder Bruce Hawker branches out on his own
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/lobbying-founder-bruce-hawker-branches-out-on-his-own/story-fn59niix-1225963000687

US Congressional Lobbying 
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/

Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison
http://regulatelobbying.com/ 

Government of South Australia - Lobbyist Code of Conduct 
http://www.accountabilityrt.org/content/government-south-australia-lobbyist-code-conduct

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Chapter 17 Consultation and Collaborative Governance

Principles of ICT-enabled Citizen Engagement 
http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/better-practice-and-collaboration/principles-for-ict-enabled-citizen-engagement.html

Citizen Engagement Blog 
http://citizenengagement.wordpress.com/

Auscensus 
http://ausensus.com/

Framework for Citizen Engagement in e-Governance 
http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/focus-on-countries/asia/india/trends-and-issues-india/

Senator Online
http://senatoronline.org.au/

The AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office) 2.0 Primer
http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2010/12/02/the-agimo-government-2-0-primer/

Gov 2.0 Australia Connecting the Australian Gov 2.0 Community
http://gov20australia.ning.com/

The Purpose of Government 2.0
http://www.wipro.com/Documents/resource-center/library/ThePurposeofGovernment2020.pdf

Future Melbourne Wiki – The City Plan That Anyone Can Edit
http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/wiki/view/FMPlan

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Chapter 18 New Forms of Participation and Social Movements

Australian Council of Trade Unions
http://www.actu.org.au/

A Timeline History of Multicultural Australia 
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/history/timeline/period/White-Australia/screen/9.Emerging-social-movements-

Australia's anti-nuclear movement: a short history
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/16973

Women’s liberation and other social movements 
http://www.dsp.org.au/node/22

Share The World's Resources
http://www.stwr.org/ 

Jakubowicz, Andrew MIT Communications “Discourses of the Social Making Multicultural Australia - A Multimedia Documentary”
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/jakubowicz.html

Munroe, Lyle. 1997. “Framing Cruelty: The Construction of Duck Shooting as a Social Problem”
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/334_s524.pdf

Maiba, Hermann. 2005. “Grassroots Transnational Social Movement Activism: The Case of Peoples' Global Action.” Sociological Focus 38 (1) February: 41-63
http://www.geser.net/gesleh/Maiba.pdf 

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Part E

Chapter 19 Parliament

Parliament of Australia: Who’s Who in Parliament 
http://www.aph.gov.au/whoswho/index.htm

Parliamentary Education Office
http://www.peo.gov.au/students/fss/fss29.html

Functions of Parliament 
http://australianpolitics.com/parliament/functions/

Australian Government 
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-government

Evans, Harry (former Clerk of the Senate), “The Australian Parliament: Time For Reformation” (April 24, 2002)
http://australianpolitics.com/news/2002/04/02-04-24.shtml 

australianpolitics.com, “Parliamentary Reform”
http://australianpolitics.com/parliament/reform/ 

Accountability Round Table
http://www.accountabilityrt.org/

Agora (Portal for Parliamentary Development)
http://www.agora-parl.org/node/2705

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Chapter 20 Prime Minister and Ministers

Claims of prime ministerial pre-eminence are not new in the Australian media, but debate about the supplanting of cabinet government by prime ministerial 
government has made comparatively little headway within Australian scholarship. After situating discussions of the Australian prime minister in a comparative 
context, the chapter rejects the notion that Australian politics has been characterized by increasing presidentialisation of prime ministers.  While the institutions 
within which the prime minister works have not fundamentally changed, prime ministers have exercised increasing power in recent decades.  
The chapter provides evidence for these arguments from the prime ministerships of Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

Australia’s Prime Ministers 
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/

National Museum of Australia—Prime Ministers of Australia 
http://www.nma.gov.au/education/school_resources/websites_and_interactives/primeministers/

Prime Minister of Australia 
http://www.pm.gov.au/

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 
http://www.dpmc.gov.au/

Executive/Cabinet Government
http://australianpolitics.com/executive/ministry/

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Chapter 21 Politicisation and the Executive

Australian Public Service Commission 
http://www.apsc.gov.au/

Accountability of Ministerial Staff?
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/2001-02/02rp19.htm

Politicising the Australian Public Service?
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp03.htm

Robinson, Marc, 1996 “Job insecurity in the new model of public employment” Economic and Labour Relations Review, 7:2,
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Economic-Labour-Relations-Review/237940790.html

Halligan, John 2007 “Accountability in Australia: control, paradox, and complexity” Public Administration Quarterly, Winter.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1ZMV/is_4_31/ai_n27911489/ 

Chau, Ching, Cooper, Kathie and Irvine, Helen 2007
Beware the reformers: A Machiavellian view of the accounting profession and public sector reform in Australia
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1343&context=commpapers

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Chapter 22 Delivering Public Policy

Australian Policy Online
http://www.apo.org.au/

Policy Magazine 
http://www.apo.org.au/

Centre for Policy Development 
http://cpd.org.au/

Lowy Institute for International Policy
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/

Australian Public Service Reform Blueprint
http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/australian-public-service-reform-blueprint

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Chapter 23 The Courts

Australian Government, Attorney-General’s Department: The Courts
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Legalsystemandjustice_TheCourts

High Court of Australia 
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/

Queensland Courts 
http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/

New South Wales Courts 
http://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/corporate/ll_corporate.nsf/pages/LL_courts_tribunals_index

South Australia Courts 
www.courts.sa.gov.au/

Northern Territory Courts 
www.courts.nt.gov.au/

Victoria Courts
www.courts.vic.gov.au/

Western Australia Courts 
www.justice.wa.gov.au/

Indigenous Courts 
http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/0/8/3/%7B08326CEA-3B11-4759-A25B-02C1764BCB8A%7Dtandi277.pdf

Australian Capital Territory Courts 
www.courts.act.gov.au/

 Tina Hunter-Schulz. "Rule of law, separation of powers and judicial decision making in Australia: Part 1" The National Legal Eagle 11.1 (2005).
http://works.bepress.com/tina_hunter/2

Tina Hunter. "Rule of law, separation of powers and judicial decision making in Australia - Part 2" Law papers (2005).
http://works.bepress.com/tina_hunter/1

Foley, Kathleen E.  Australian Judicial Review” Washington University Global Studies Law Review 6
http://law.wustl.edu/wugslr/issues/volume6_2/foley.pdf 

Williams, John “Constitutional Adjudication and Democracy” 
http://www.ialsnet.org/meetings/constit/papers/WilliamsJohn%28Australia%29.pdf
 

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Chapter 24 Federalism

Federalism
http://australianpolitics.com/federalism

Australia’s Federal Future 
http://www.caf.gov.au/Documents/AustraliasFederalFuture.pdf

The Evolution of Constitutional Federalism in Australia
http://www.cfses.com/documents/wp22.pdf

Federalism and the role of the senate 
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/griffith.htm

Dollery, Brian 2002 A century of vertical fiscal imbalance in Australian federalism” History of Economics Review / Summer
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6787/is_36/ai_n28133099/

Grewal, Bhajan and Sheehan, Peter 2003 “The Evolution of Constitutional Federalism in Australia: An Incomplete Contracts Approach” CSES Working Paper No. 22 November 2003
http://www.cfses.com/documents/wp22.pdf

Studies in Comparative Federalism: Australia, Canada, the United States and Germany
http://www.library.unt.edu/gpo/acir/Reports/information/M-129.pdf

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Part F


Chapter 25 A Bill of Rights

The Australian Constitution
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/general/constitution/index.htm

United States Bill of Rights
http://www.constitution.org/billofr_.htm

Australian Human Rights Commission
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/

Islamic Women’s Welfare
http://www.islamicwomenswelfare.org.au/

Greens and Constitutional Reform
http://greens.org.au/policies/human-rights-democracy/constitutional-reform-and-democracy

Australian Politics
http://australianpolitics.com/constitution-aus

Harris, Bede 2009  ‘The Bill of Rights Debate in Australia – A Study in Constitutional
Disengagement’ Journal of Politics and Law 2:3
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jpl/article/view/2741/3261

Hilary Charlesworth Does Australia need a Bill of Rights? Public Lecture April 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5lNBnHeFik

Williams, George 2010 The Future of the Australian Bill of Rights Debate, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2010-39
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1689355##

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Chapter 26 Taxing and Spending

Australian Taxation Office: 
http://www.ato.gov.au/

Reserve Bank of Australia: 
http://www.rba.gov.au/

Chronology of superannuation and retirement income in Australia
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/2007-08/Chron_Superannuation.htm

Tax Burdens around the world
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/07/tax-burdens-around-the-world.html

A brief history of Australia’s tax system 
http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1156/PDF/01_Brief_History.pdf

Wilson, Shaun and Breusch, Trevor 2004 After the tax revolt: why Medicare matters more to middle Australia than lower taxes Australian Journal of Social Issues May, 2004
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3359/is_2_39/ai_n29099088/

Whiteford, Peter 2006 The welfare expenditure debate: 'economic myths of the left and the right' revisited. Economic and Labour Relations Review 17: 1
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Economic-Labour-Relations-Review/240859027.html

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Chapter 27 Education, Training, Work and Life

Australian Education Union
http://www.aeufederal.org.au/

Campus Review
http://www.campusreview.com.au/

History of Education in Australia
http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/education/other/history.html

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
http://www.deewr.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

HECS-HELP System
http://www.goingtouni.gov.au/

Terry Carney & Gaby Ramia, Emerging Patterns of Social Protection in Australia
http://alla.law.unimelb.edu.au/files/Emerging_Patterns_of_Social_Protection_in_Australia.pdf

Paul Smyth 2007 Social investment in human capital: Revisioning Australian social policySocial Policy Working Paper No. 8
http://www.bsl.org.au/pdfs/Smyth_social_investment_1.pdf

Enhancing Social Protection and Reducing Vulnerability in a Globalizing World
http://www.icsw.org/un-news/pdfs/csdsocprotect.PDF

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Chapter 28 Cities

Urban Development Institute of Australia
http://www.udia.com.au/html/

Melbourne
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/

Sydney
www.sydney.com.au/

Brisbane
www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/

Canberra
www.visitcanberra.com.au/

Darwin
www.tourismtopend.com.au/pages/darwin/

Perth
www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/

Adelaide
www.southaustralia.com/regions/adelaide-city.aspx

Ernest Healy and Bob Birrell, 2004 . Housing and community in the compact city February AHURI Positioning Paper No. 66
www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/50224_pp

Ian Woodcock, Kim Dovey, Simon Wollan and Ian Robertson Speculation Or Resistance? The limits to compact city policy
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/cf/staff/peter.rickwood/soac2009/PDF/Woodcock%20Ian%203.pdf

Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council, A Call To Action
http://www.gbca.org.au/uploads/25/13593/ASBEC%20-%20A%20CALL%20TO%20ACTION.pdf

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Chapter 29 Indigenous Australians

Australian Indigenous Cultural Heritage
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-indigenous-cultural-heritage

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Indigenous Australians
http://www.aihw.gov.au/indigenous-australians/

Indigenous Australia 
http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/

Closing the Gap 
http://www.indigenous.gov.au/

Lateline transcript of interview with Noel Pearson 
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1962844.htm

Angela Pratt and Scott Bennett, “The end of ATSIC and the future administration of Indigenous affairs” Australian Parliament Library Current Issues Brief no. 4 2004–05
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/cib/2004-05/05cib04.htm

Australian Policy Online, “Indigenous”
http://apo.org.au/indigenous

Health Issues Centre, “Indigenous Health”
http://www.healthissuescentre.org.au/subjects/list-library-subject.chtml?subject=13 

Australian Council for Education Research, “Indigenous Education: Government Policies and Reports”
http://www.acer.edu.au/indigenous/general/government-policies-and-reports/ 

Australian Council for Education Research, “Indigenous Education: ACER Research”
http://www.acer.edu.au/indigenous/general/acer-research/ 

Australian Local Government Association, “Indigenous Issues”
http://www.alga.asn.au/policy/indigenous/

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Chapter 30 Health

Department of Health and Ageing
http://www.health.gov.au/

National Health and Hospitals Network 
http://www.yourhealth.gov.au/internet/yourhealth/publishing.nsf/Content/nhhn-report-toc/$FILE/NHHN%20-%20Full%20report.pdf

Healthcare in Australia
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/healthcare.html

Nursing in Australia
http://www.nurseinaustralia.com/

Medicare – Background Brief
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/medicare.htm 

Menzies Centre for Health Policy
http://www.menzieshealthpolicy.edu.au/

Gwen Gray “Health policy in Australia” Australian Policy Online
http://apo.org.au/commentary/health-policy-australia

Health Informatics Society of Australia Limited, Australian Health Policy News
http://www.hisa.org.au/healthpolicy2

Health Issues Centre
http://www.healthissuescentre.org.au/

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Chapter 31 The Environment

Australian Department of Climate Change: 
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au


Environment Australia: 
http://www.ea.gov.au


Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/


An Inconvenient Truth: 
http://www.aninconvenienttruth.com.au/truth/ 

Australian Conservation Foundation: 
http://www.acfonline.org.au
 

Friends of the Earth Australia: 
http://www.foe.org.au
 

Greenpeace: 
http://www.greenpeace.org
 

The Wilderness Society: 
http://www.wilderness.org.au

Miriam Lyons, “Environment policy in Australia: beyond ‘business as usual’”Centre for Policy Development
http://cpd.org.au/2006/10/environment-policy-in-australia-beyond-business-as-usual/

Stuart Whitten, Martin van Bueren and Drew Collins, “An Overview of Market-Based Instruments and Environmental Policy in Australia”
http://www.ecosystemservicesproject.org/html/publications/docs/MBIs_overview.pdf

Andrew Ross and Steve Dovers, “Policy Integration for Sustainable NRM:
Joint Research and Policy Learning” November 2006
http://lwa.gov.au/files/products/innovation/er071390/er071390.pdf

Michelle Reiner, Environmental Citizenship and the Neoliberal State: Good Policy or Greenwash? Australian Policy & History (APH) Network
http://www.aph.org.au/files/articles/environmentalCitizenship.htm

Drew Collins, “Threats to effective environmental policy in Australia”
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/86740/04-chapter3.pdf

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Chapter 32 Australia and the World

Australian Institute of International Affairs 
http://www.aiia.asn.au/
 

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 
http://www.dfat.gov.au/ 

AusAID 
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/
 

The Bali Bombing: Looking for Explanations 
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/FAD/bali.htm 

Australia China Connections 
http://www.chinaconnections.com.au/

The Lowy Institute for International Policy
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/

Peter Warr, No Clear Objective: The Simons Report on Foreign Aid”, Agenda, Volume 5, Number 3, 1998, pages 362-366
http://epress.anu.edu.au/agenda/005/03/5-3-NT-2.pdf

AIDWATCH, Australian government aid
http://www.aidwatch.org.au/book/export/html/16

Geoffrey Garrett, “Strategic choices: Australia, China and the US in Asia” 
The Asialink Essays 2010 Vol 2(5)
http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/publications/1008AsiaLinkGarrett.pdf

Timothy Kendall “Within China's Orbit? China through the eyes of the Australian Parliament” Australian Parliament Library
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/monographs/Kendall/index.htm

Daniel Baldino, “Good Instincts or Poor Judgment? Australia’s counter-terrorism
response after 9-11” 2007 APSA Conference, Monash University, September 24 – 26
http://arts.monash.edu.au/psi/news-and-events/apsa/refereed-papers/au-nz-politics/baldino.pdf

Derek Woolner, The 2003 Defence Statement: The failure to marry politics and policy” Symposium: Advancing the National Interest? 28 April 2003 Australian Review of Public Affairs
http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2003/04/woolner.html

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