The creation of the Secretariat in 1965 was the most important landmark in the evolution of the present Commonwealth. After half-a-century of desultory attempts to detach the instruments of consultation from the routines of Whitehall, the matter was clinched quite sudde...

The possible explanations for her conduct vary according to her perceived status as either a willing participant or a victim. If she is a willing participant in her capitulation and seduction, there are three reasons why the knight is successful, according to antecedent...

Using interviews with Australian men who became fathers in the last quarter of the twentieth century, this chapter investigates the circumstances that encouraged or required some young fathers to take seriously a family role that transcended that of the breadwinner and ...

Before colonisation, Australia was a linguistically diverse continent, with an estimated 250 Indigenous languages and about 500 spoken varieties of these languages. By 1980, a quarter of these languages had disappeared, a decline which continued over the years, with two...

The bulk of official development assistance (ODA) from Australia is provided to Asia and Oceania. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea together account for nearly a quarter of the total. Physical proximity to Canberra and large receipts of bilateral aid from the United States...

These new principles of the New Direction gave us the oppor- tunity to move forward, to develop a more truthful picture of the pre-history of the October Revolution and, in general, to move towards a more profound, rounded understanding of the history of the development...

Approximately 60% of adjacent fiscal quarters contain a different number of calendar days. Our preliminary results indicate it is important for analysts to adjust for changes in quarter length when making forecasts. However, we find the quarterly change in days is posit...

The future of distributed ledger technology such as blockchain is dependent on its ability to interact and integrate with other systems. Therefore, interoperability has become a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed. The emerging category of crypto-assets are man...