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Story of WA man, John Button, who was sentenced in the 1960s for the murder of his girlfriend; the police were under great pressure at the time for a series of unresolved murders, many attributed t

The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II.

We were supposed to be in a"postfeminist" age. But recently we've seen a resurgence of feminist campaigning among women (and some men).

Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally.

An entertaining mixture of fact and fiction about experiences in a small N.S.W. town, prompted by the decision of a family to escape the tensions of life in Canberra.

“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt,

Rarely a week goes by when juvenile delinquency or the Young Offenders Act are not discussed in the dominant media.

As the war on terror dominates world headlines and conflicts of all kinds abound, this No-Nonsense Guide provides a refreshing antidote. Can conflict be prevented?

An epic of courage and love that moves from war-torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness.

Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World.

“Overseas aid” and “international development” are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities – and abuses.

“Nothing is going to go wrong.” -Mike Harris, 2001 Privatization of power soon became

There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over.

A Calder by birth, Ty Calder has been brought up far away from the Montana ranch that is his inheritance. Returning, he finds it difficult to settle in.

Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic.