News ARCHIVE FROM 2007
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Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management Launched
by MR Dean Yibarbuk
(posted 5 December 2007)
The Director of the CDU's School for Environmental Research, Professor Bruce Campbell hosted a launch of the latest CDU Press publication, Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management, edited by M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett. The volume was launched by Mr Dean Yibarbuk, Senior Fire Ecologist, Gurrugonie man from the Andirridjalaba clan, west Arnhem on Monday, 10 December 2007 from 12.30 to 1.30 at the Mal Nairn Auditorium on CDU's Casuarina Campus. This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia. Indigenous people provide a number of public goods in relation to environmental management for which they are not remunerated.
Two new titles from CDU Press!
(posted 4 December 2007)
The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future, edited by Dennis Shoesmith
ISBN: 9780980384628 RRP $29.95 – available now!
This book offers a collection of papers originating in a symposium, The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future, held at Charles Darwin University on 13 November 2006. Together, the papers in this volume address the historical, social and political causes of unrest in Timor-Leste, explaining the violence and rebellion of 2006 in a larger context. By doing this they identify ways to respond to the causes of unrest, particularly the social and developmental strategies the East Timorese can pursue in order to negotiate the transition to a stable, democratic and viable state.
Contributors: James Cotton, Jennifer Drysdale, Steven Farram, Trevor Le Lievre, Andrew McWilliam, Ron May, David Mearns, Rod Nixon, Kate Reid-Smith, Dennis Shoesmith
Dennis Shoesmith is Associate Professor of Politics at Charles Darwin University. He has worked as a consultant in Timor-Leste with the United Nations and USAID.
Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management, edited by M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett
ISBN 9780980384642 RRP $22.95 - available now!
This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia. Indigenous people provide a number of public goods in relation to environmental management for which they are not remunerated. Their presence on country should be viewed as a national asset. The health of Australia’s Indigenous people remains unacceptably. Individual and collective engagement with ancestrally significant land and sea improves health outcomes, while also supporting individual autonomy and social cohesion through cultural practices. This book brings together a broad suite of authors with an understanding of Indigenous NRM and the economics thereof. Indigenous NRM emerges as a “keystone policy area” that could allow integration of many policy fields commonly considered in isolation.
The editors of this book all have wide experience in the fields covered by this book. Professor Marty Luckert from the University of Alberta has been offering insights into the economics of environmental management around the world for decades, Professor Bruce Campbell from Charles Darwin University (CDU) has an international reputation for his work on livelihoods among the rural poor, Julian Gorman (CDU) has played a key role in fostering wildlife-based industries among Indigenous people in the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory and Professor Stephen Garnett (CDU) has broad experience in management of tropical environments, particularly northern Australia.
All CDU Press publications are available from the CDU Bookshop:
on-line: www.cdu.edu.au/bookshop
email: bookshop@cdu.edu.au
phone: (08) 8946 6497
fax: (08) 8946 6656
post: PO Box U476, Charles Darwin University Post Office NT 0815
Australian History in the Spotlight at the Annual History Colloquium
(posted November 2007)
Australian history and cultural events were explored in the annual History Colloquium in Darwin on the weekend of 17-18 November 2007. The event is jointly organised each year by Charles Darwin University, the Australia National University and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and offers insights into a broad range of historical subjects by experts in their field. The Colloquium is a free weekend event, held at the theatrette in the Museum and Art Gallery.
Topics this year ranged widely, and included historical aspects of housing, destructive weather, bureaucracy, pastoral industry, tourism and sport.
David Carment, the coordinator of the event, said "The overall standard of presentations was particularly high and I was pleased that so many people attended the various sessions".
Speakers came from CDU and ANU, and included Mickey Dewar, Tim Rowse, Jan Whitehead, Daphne Cazalet, Chris O'Brien, Elizabeth Ganter, Julie Mastin, Ted Ling, Robyn Smith, Judy Opitz, Abby Cooper, and Matthew Stephen.
2007 History Colloquium Program >>
History titles from CDU Press >>
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CDU Press publication Empty North wins Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award
(posted October 2007)
Pam Oliver’s book Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s to 1942 was announced the winner of this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award at the awards ceremony in Parliament House, Darwin on Friday 5th October 2007. Chair of the CDU Press Editorial Board, Dr David Mearns, accepted the prize on behalf of Pam Oliver, who was unable to attend the ceremony.
Empty North considers the positive nature of Japanese immigration to the north of Australia alongside the fear many Australians developed of Japanese resident in White Australia after 1901. The book examines key questions. What part did Japanese people play in the positive development of Australia's Northern Territory? Were Australians' fears of Japanese residents justified? Were Japanese immigrants an official part of Japan's program of southern expansion before World War 2? Did they prepare for Japan's bombing of Australia? These questions and more are examined in Pam Oliver's book within the context of Australia's relations with Japan and Japan's expansion into South East Asia and the Pacific regions.
Dr Pam Oliver is an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. She has published widely on the Australia-Japan relationship and Japanese immigration to and networks within Australia.
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CONGRATULATIONS, Pam!
The other titles on the shortlist for the award were: Liam Campbell's Darby - One Hundred Years of Life in a Changing Culture and Glenice Yee's Through Chinese Eyes. Further information about the prize is available at: www.ntl.nt.gov.au/news/events/history
Empty North and other CDU Press publications are available from the CDU Bookshop: order on-line at www.cdu.edu.au/bookshop, or email: bookshop@cdu.edu.au.
Further information on CDU Press and its publications can be found at: www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress.
To join the mailing list to receive information on CDU Press titles, email cdupress@cdu.edu.au.
See also:
Northern Territory Government media release: newsroom.nt.gov.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewRelease&id=3081&d=5
Charles 'Moth' Eaton launched by Professor Alan Powell
(posted August 2007)
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Steven Farram's new volume Charles 'Moth' Eaton: Pioneer Aviator of the Northern Territory, was launched by CDU's Emeritus Professor in History, Alan Powell, on Wednesday 29 August 2007, at 5.00pm at the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre, 557 Stuart Highway, Darwin. Download a copy of the launch invitation >> |
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| Steven Farram and Charles Eaton Jr mark the launch of Steven's new book 'Charles 'Moth' Eaton' | ||
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| Author, Steven Farram, with his wife, Marion, and members of the Eaton family (Charles Eaton Jr, his wife, Vani, and two of his children, Phillip and Karoline) at the book launch |
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Empty North shortlisted for Chief Minister's History Book Prize
(posted August 2007)
The CDU Press publication Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s to 1942, by Pam Oliver has been shortlisted for the 2007 Chief Minister's NT History Book Award.
The other titles on the shortlist are: Liam Campbell's Darby - One Hundred Years of Life in a Changing Culture and Glenice Yee's Through Chinese Eyes.
See: www.ntl.nt.gov.au/news/events/history
Congratulations, Pam!
The overall winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in the Main Hall, Parliament House, Darwin on Friday 5th October 2007 from 5.30pm.
On the Discourse of Social Science launched by Professor Brian Gray
(posted August 2007)
Professor Brian Gray launched the recent CDU Press publication On the Discourse of Social Science, by Peter Wignell. The launch took place at the Student Square (behind CDU Bookshop, Casuarina Campus, CDU) at 4.00 pm on Friday, 17 August 2007.
Download a copy of the launch invitation.
Launch of Living Heart held at Supreme Court, Darwin
(posted July 2007)
Living Heart, by Chris Howse, was launched by CDU's Adjunct Associate Professor Isaac Brown. Professor Wendy Brady spoke on behalf of CDU Press Editorial Board. The launch took place at 5.15 pm on Friday, 20 July 2007 in foyer and Court One of the Supreme Court, State Square, Darwin.
New and forthcoming releases from CDU Press
(posted June 2007)
This is a busy time for CDU Press. Over the next few weeks, a number of new titles will be released and a series of launches is anticipated.
The six new titles include:
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The Shadow’s Edge: Australia’s Northern War by Alan Powell (a new edition) |
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On the Discourse of Social Science by Peter Wignell |
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Communicating at University: Skills for Success by Nicola Rolls and Peter Wignell |
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Accelerating the Literacy Development of Indigenous Students: The National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP) |
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Living Heart |
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Charles ‘Moth’ Eaton: Pioneer Aviator of the Northern Territory |
Launches will be held for many of these publications and details will be posted to the CDU Press website: www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress as they become available.
For further information, or to be added to the mailing list, please email cdupress@cdu.edu.au.
Launch of The Long Road to Territory Health held at Royal Darwin Hospital
(posted June 2007)
The Long Road to Territory Health, by Dr David Lo, was launched at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) by the Minister for Health, Chris Burns.
The launch took place commencing at 10.30 am on Monday 18 June 2007 in the Auditorium, RDH.
Empty North launched in Canberra and Melbourne
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| Graeme Davison, Pam Oliver and Ross Latham, Director of the National Archives of Australia in Victoria, at the Melbourne launch of Pam’s book, Empty North: The Japanese presence and Australian reactions, 1860s - 1942, Charles Darwin University Press |
(posted May 2007)
Pam Oliver's recent publication, Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s to 1942, has been launched in both Canberra and Melbourne. About the book >>
Melbourne
The Melbourne launch of Empty North was held at 4.30 pm on Saturday 9 June 2007, at the Monash Arts in Action Festival at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University. Professor Graeme Davison launched the book.
Ross Latham, Director of the National Archives of Australia in Victoria, spoke on behalf of the National Archives and the Editorial Board of Charles Darwin University Press. Download the launch invitation (.pdf).
Canberra
Professor Jenny Corbett, Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, ANU's Crawford School of Economics and Government, launched Empty North during the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference, ANU, Canberra. The launch was held commencing at 3.30 pm for a formal start at 3.45 pm on Tuesday 3 July 2007 in the Menzies Library, ANU. The fifteenth biennial JSAA conference was held at the ANU campus in Canberra from 1-4 July 2007. The theme of the conference was Japan 2007: Adjusting to Change; Respecting the Past.
Mr Vic Elliott, University Librarian, spoke on behalf of the Editorial Board of Charles Darwin University Press. Download the launch invitation (.pdf).
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| Author, Pam Oliver, says a few words at the Canberra launch of 'Empty North' | Author, Pam Oliver, with Mrs Bronwen Sissons (left) and her daughter, Meredith (right), the family of the late DSC Sissons, the scholar to whom the book is dedicated |
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The Chair of CDU Press (David Mearns) went along to the launch of the exhibition |
Kylie Smith, President of the |
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Japan Comes to the Top End
(posted March 2007)
CDU Press would like to congratulate the Australian-Japanese Association of the Northern Territory Inc and the Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney on their hosting of the significant and well-travelled Australia-Japan Historical Photo Exhibition, Partners In A New Vision “Australia and Japan Across Time”, which was on display at Parliament House in Darwin and open to the public from 4 to 17 March 2007.
The exhibition shows the history of relations between Australia and Japan in the past century and present and has travelled widely around Australia during 2006. More information about the exhibition is available at www.austjapanfed.org.au/NT/ajsnt_event.htm.
CDU Press would also like to acknowledge the support and assistance of the Australian-Japanese Association of the Northern Territory Inc for allowing our recent publication Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s to 1942, by Pam Oliver, to be displayed at the Australia-Japan Historical Photo Exhibition. Empty North considers the positive nature of Japanese immigration to the north of Australia alongside the fear many Australians developed of Japanese resident in White Australia after 1901.