JAS review of books

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Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp 296, pb $32.95. Bill Pritchard and Phil McManus (eds), Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2000, pb $32.95. Robert Paddle, The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 273, hb $49.95 Elaine Brown, Cooloola Coast Noosa to Fraser Island: The Aboriginal and Settler Histories of a Unique Environment, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, pb $40.00. Kate Deverall, Rebecca Huntley, Penny Sharpe and Jo Tilly (eds), Party Girls: Labor Women Now, Sydney, Pluto Press, 2000, pp xix + 293, pb $32.95. John Ritchie, The Wenhvorths: Father and Son, Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press), Melbourne, 1997, pp xvi + 311, hb $39.95. Garrie Hutchinson (ed), Australian Football League's Hall of Fame, HarperSports, 2000, 160pp, hb $32.95. Ian Tyrrell, Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 1999, pp 271, pb $32.95. Carmel Bird (ed), The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories, Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood, 2000, pp 848, pb $25.00/hb $49.27 Clinton Walker, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp350, pb $30.00 Sian Rees, The Floating Brothel, Hodder Headline, London, 2001, pp 264, pb $27.95 Brian Matthews, A Fine and Private Place, Pan Macmillian, 2000, pb $28.00. Eric Rolls, Australia: a Biography The Beginnings from the Cosmos to the Genesis of Gondwana, and its Rivers, Forests, Flora, Fauna and Fecundity, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, pp 320, pb $35.00. Robert A Hall, Combat Battalion: The Eighth Battalion in Vietnam, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 2000, pp 308, pb $29.95. Peter A Jackson and Gerard Sullivan (eds), Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives, Haworth Press, New York, 1999, pp 233, pb $36.00 Christopher Cunneen: William John McKell, Boilermaker, Premier, Governor General, University of New South Wales Press, 2000; 272 pp, pb $39.95 Margaret Harris (ed) The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead, University of Queensland Press, 2000, pb $32.95 Henri Gilbert, A Frenchman's Walk Across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897‐1899. Translated and edited by Colin Dyer. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 208, hb $29.95. Simon Ville: The Rural Entrepreneurs: a History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp xii + 259, hb $49.95 Jane Lydon, Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks 1890 — 1930, Monash Publications in History, Clayton, 1999, pp 276, pb $22.00. Helen Gilbert, Tseen Khoo & Jacqueline Lo (eds), Diaspora: Negotiating Asian‐Australia, University of Queensland Press, 2000, pp 245, pb $24.95. Tara Brabazon, Tracking the Jack: a Retracing of the Antipodes, University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp vii + 214 pb $34.95. Ouyang Yu (ed), Otherland Literary Journal/Yuanxiang, vol 6, no 1, June 2000. Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas (eds), Alter/Asians: Asian‐Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp 323, $32.95. Helen Topliss (ed), Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Dangar's Letters to Grace Crowley 1930‐1951, Allen & Unwin, pp 366, hb $55.00. Julian Watkinson, The Architect, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 2000, pb $28 The making and unmaking of white feminist privilege Aileen Moreton‐Robinson, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, University of Queensland Press, 2000. pp.xxv +234, $22.00 Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1999. pp.iv +435, John Docker and Gerhard Fischer (eds), Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand. University of New South Wales Press, 2000. pp. xiii+288, $35.00