Reviewed in this issue are:

Anthropology

Per Hage and Frank Harary:
Island Networks: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania
Reviewed by Paul Rainbird

Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse (ed.):
Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition
Reviewed by Paul Rainbird

Business

Amanda Sinclair:
Doing Leadership Differently: Gender, Power and Sexuality in a Changing Business Culture
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Environment

Meredith and Verity Burgmann:
Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Association
Reviewed by Paul Rainbird

Stephen Dovers:
Environment and sustainability policy: creation, implementation, evaluation

Reviewed by Arthur Lucas

History

Michael Hogan (ed.):
A lifetime in conservative politics: Political memoirs of Sir Joseph Carruthers
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Siobhán McHugh:
Minefields and miniskirts: Australian women and the Vietnam War
Reviewed by Charles W. Arnade

Sybil Nolan (ed.):
The Dismissal: Where were you on November 11, 1975?
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Michael Sexton:
The Great Crash: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the Whitlam Government
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Humour

Brian Dibble and Jim Evans (ed.) with photography by Richard Woldendorp:
Marking the land: A collection of Australian bush wisdom & humour

Reviewed by Glenn Calderwood

International Relations

Natasha Cica (ed.):
Griffith Review: Insecurity in the New World Order
Reviewed by Michael Brennan

John Langmore
Dealing with America: The UN, the US and Australia
Reviewed by Richard Trembath

Jean Moorcroft and Cecil Woolf(ed.):
Authors Take Sides: Iraq and the Gulf War
Reviewed by Richard Trembath

Media Studies

Graeme Turner:
Ending the affair: The decline of television current affairs in Australia
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Migration Studies

Helene Chung Martin:
Lazy Man in China by
Reviewed by Susan Ballyn

Poetry

C.J. Dennnis:
C. J. Dennis: A collection of verse by C. J. Dennis
Reviewed by Arthur Lucas

Tina Giannoukos:
In a Bigger City
Reviewed by Susan Ballyn

Politics

Julia Baird:
Media Tarts: How the Australian press frames female politicians
Reviewed by Charles W. Arnade

Colin A. Hughes (ed.):
A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999
Reviewed by Carl Bridge

Mark Latham:
The Latham diaries
Reviewed by Ged Martin

Reference

Andrew May-Brown and Shurlee Swain (ed.):
The encyclopedia of Melbourne
Reviewed by Arthur Lucas

Sport

Gideon Haigh:
A fair field and no favour: The Ashes 2005
Reviewed by Richard Trembath

Frank ‘Typhoon’ Tyson:
In the Eye of the Typhoon. Recollections of the MCC tour of Australia 1954/5
Reviewed by Carl Bridge

Potential new reviewers are always welcome. Please contact Glenn Calderwood at glenn280763@hotmail.com

The first issue is also online at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/menzies/basa/Reviews%20in%20Australian%20Studies%201,2%20(April%202006).doc