This is the third volume in the annual McPherson Lecture Series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law. Inspired by the famous Hamlyn Lecture Series in England, the McPherson Lecture Series hosts a celebrated international scholar or legal expert to deliver a series of three lectures. In this volume, The Honourable James Jacob Spigelman considers the theme of statutory interpretation and human rights.

The first of these topical and considered essays, 'The Common Law Bill of (READ MORE...)

The Bibliography of Australian Literature is an essential reference for the reading, study and collecting of Australian literature.

The Bibliography of Australian Literature P-Z is the fourth and final volume of a major collaborative national bibliographical project recording details of all separately published creative literature by Australian writers from European arrival in Australia to the end of the 20th century.

Genres covered are poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing. One of the strengths of this unique multi-volume work (READ MORE...)

There is no need for memory
moving between grace and love
like the wounded magpie

that cannot fly and keeps
close to the house, wary
of wild cats come out

of the stressed bush, wilder
than its own wildness - inherent
and made from experience.

Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, John Kinsella's 'distractions' create a world in which heaven, hell and purgatory co-exist. Set in the wheatbelt zone of Western Australia, Kinsella's Divine Comedy takes the reader on (READ MORE...)

'Love's not a cake', I say. 'You don't carve it into pieces 'til there's none left; it's more like the Magic Pudding - the more you use of it, the more it grows.'

Anna and Jamie are inseparable, the brother and sister team who face the world, their family and school together. Their love for each other is bigger than anything else they know and stronger than any ordinary bond. It is Jamie who challenges Anna throughout her life; Jamie (READ MORE...)

In the Vernacular brings together important works, written over a twenty-year period, from one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture and policy.

Tracking across Australia's still-neglected film heritage, and reflecting on the achievements of Australian television in the 1980s and 1990s, the book exemplifies the strengths of close attention to both history and industry context and the attractions of popular aesthetics. It engages with the global debate on multi-ethnic societies by focusing on extraordinary, yet barely visible, creativity 'at (READ MORE...)