Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> World - Australian & Oceanian

KU I KA MANA.

This is the title of the Kingdom of Hawai'i's chant, and means, "the Mana is Rising." The chant describes exactly what is happening in Hawai'i now. The Kingdom of Hawai'i is being restored and returned to its pre -1893 government by King Edmund Keli'i Silva, Jr.

This is a book based on facts, and it exposes what really happened in 1893 to Queen Lili'uokalani and the nation of Hawaii at the treacherous hands of the United States. The events that led to her overthrow are summarized in the book's subtitle - conspiracy, invasion, overthrow & illegal occupation. But...

The Australian Greens played a pivotal role after the 2010 federal election. It ensured the Gillard minority government went full term and won its first House of Representatives seat.

But what do we really know about the Greens in Australia? Is the party really just an extension of the environment movement or a professional party, capable of influencing the major parties? This book examines the people who make the party tick. Uncovers the members and activists of the party.

The Australian Greens: From Activism to Australia's Third Party asks whether the Greens has made...

Why should Indigenous people have a direct say in the decisions that affect their lives? Australia is one of the only liberal democracies still grappling with such a fundamental question.

The idea of constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has become a highly political and contentious issue. It is entangled in institutional processes that rarely allow the diversity of Indigenous opinion to be expressed.

With a referendum on the agenda, it is now urgent that Indigenous people have a direct say in the form of recognition that constitutional change might...

Constitutional systems frequently depend upon conventions - unwritten rules based on principle and precedent - to guide their operation, including regarding the role of the head of state. The Queen is Australia's head of state, with her Australian federal representative, the Governor-General, serving in day-to-day practice as a de facto head of state. Papers in this volume discuss conventions and other practice relating to the Crown in Australia's Westminster-style system of government responsible to Parliament. Papers consider the -Australianisation- of the Crown since federation in 1901,...

What you will find is a variety of treatments on some of the most important issues facing this country. True, the overall tone is not one of bubbling optimism. How could it be with the current state of the Liberal Party in this country? But it does constitute, with the variety of views and approaches of the authors, a sort of handbook for how the right side of politics might get back on track in this country - at least for those of us who do not think that acting as the pale imitation of Labor is the way to go.

The line-up for this book is as follows. Judith Sloan considers the...