In the latest offerings in Cambridge University Press's 'Contemporary Japanese Society' series, Vera Mackie outlines 130 years of Japanese feminism, while Roger Goodman's collection explores a decade of policy interventions ...

Amanda Lohrey is a political scientist and novelist with a real interest in the Greens. If you want a comprehensive short history of the Greens movement, an account of the significant events that have formed it, a study ...

Penelope Hetherington has found that in nineteenth-century Western Australian colonial society childhood is not easily delineated. Her solution to this problem of definition is to look at how childhood was defined in ...

David Rowbotham is a Queensland poet whose first book was published nearly fifty years ago. His career has a shape that is often found in the arts: a quiet figure whose work is politely rather than rhapsodically received, ...

With these two books and Peter Mares’s admirable "Borderline" now in the public domain, it is impossible to say we haven't been told the truth. Or that we don't understand the long-term consequences of the Howard government's ...

"The Lamplighter" certainly has the look and feel of a nineteenth-century novel, but could it really be read as one? In preparing this review, I reread "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886). What strikes the reader almost immediately ...

Poems are like mangroves. They lodge and grow in the mind, becoming part of us, just as these plants take root in estuarine silt. Even on the page, there is sometimes a resemblance. As its title suggests, Laurie Duggan’s ...