Ministers, mandarins and diplomats : Australian foreign policy making, 1941-1969

This volume explores key aspects of the development of the Australian Department of External Affairs in the three decades from 1941 to 1969 as it evolved from a small amateur department to a highly professional global operation.

Photographic chemistry /

Includes index.

House decoration : comprising whitewashing, paperhanging, painting, etc. ; with numerous engravings and diagrams /

First edition ... 1894. Reprinted ... 1908.

Colouring matters for dyeing textiles; with numerous engravings and diagrams,

"The matter has been revised and brought up to date by Mr. A. R. Foster."--Pref.

Mounting and framing pictures /

Includes index.

The book of photography, practical, theoretic and applied,

Mode of access: Internet.

Timber: growth and structure : felling, converting and buying; measuring; seasoning; properties and defects; preservation; varieties.

"A comprehensive digest of the knowledge of timber scattered over seventeen volumes of Building World".

Bent iron work : including elementary art metal work ; with numerous engravings and diagrams /

Mode of access: Internet.

Taxidermy : comprising the skinning, stuffing, and mounting of birds, mammals, and fish /

Mode of access: Internet.

Electro-plating /

Mode of access: Internet.

How to write signs, tickets, and posters : with numerous engravings and diagrams /

Includes index.

The mechanic's workshop handybook /

Mode of access: Internet.

The last of Australian imperial dreams for the Southwest Pacific: Paul Hasluck, the Department of Territories and a Greater Melanesia in 1960

This paper is a study of the vision held at the beginning of the 1960s by Paul Hasluck, the minister for external territories, and his department of the path to decolonisation for Melanesia. Faced by the ongoing West New Guinea crisis, Hasluck and his officials proposed to keep the western part of New Guinea out of Indonesian hands by expanding Australia’s empire, step by step, to include most of Melanesia. This greater Melanesian empire would eventually be guided to self-government. The proposal stood in a long line of ideas by Pacific-minded Australians going back for 100 years for an expanded Australian empire in the southwest Pacific. Consequently the Menzies cabinet’s rejection of Hasluck’s proposal was not just an important step towards changing its policy towards WNG; it marked the end to a century of Australian dreams and designs of a greater formal empire in the southwest Pacific.

Members abroad - Australia : Paul Sanders

I have been an academic since joining the University of Natal in 1998 and, following a period as a visiting lecturer in Brisbane in 2001, I joined the staff at QUT on an ongoing basis in 2003. I was appointed as Architecture Co-ordinator in 2006, and this role involves the leadership of the architectur discipline of 17 full time academics. I am currently enrolled in a PhD course in the field of urban morphology. This research proposes a theory on the relevance of mapping the evolutionary aspects of historical urban form to develop a measure for evaluating architecural elements and deriving parameters for new buildings. My participation in a QUT design team contributed to a recent successful invited competition bid for an Urban Transit Centre in Hangzhou, China. The Centre will include retail, business, entertainment, residential and service components at the heart of the Binjiang district on the 11.5ha core area with 32ha surrounding urban design precinct. The project has received the approval to commence and is to be implemented over the next three years!