Political Ephemera Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key print materials available in the Library. Some of these items may be on the shelves in the La Trobe Reading Room. Others may need to be requested through our online catalogue. These items will then be retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection point in this room.

Dargavel, John. Fashioning Australia's forests. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995.

LT 333.750994 D24F
Covers the history and use of Australian forests and the contests between the forest industry and the conservation movement. Includes tables of statistics and an extensive bibliography.

Jaensch, Dean & Teichmann, Max. The MacMillan dictionary of Australian politics. Macmillan,Victoria, 1992.

LTR 320.994 J17M
Introduction to Australian political terminology with concise definitions. Includes Australian election results, political leaders (state and federal) and referendum results. 

Lake, Marilyn. Getting equal: the history of Australian feminism. Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW, 1999.

LT 305.420994 L14G.
Comprehensive documentation of the history of feminism in Australia from its beginnings in the late 19th century to the present.

Langley, Greg. A decade of dissent: Vietnam and the conflict on the Australian homefront. Allen & Unwin, North Sydney NSW, 1992).

LT 959.7043394 L26D.
Chronological history of the anti-Vietnam war movement told in interview format with those involved in the protests. Includes interviews with mothers of draft resisters, draft resisters, students, journalists, politicians, priests and soldiers.

Contested ground: Australian Aborigines under the British crown. Ed. Ann McGrath, Allen & Unwin,  St Leonards NSW, 1995.

LTR 994.0049915 C76M
Overview of Aboriginal-white relations in Australian history. Includes maps and illustrations. Extensively footnoted with a select bibliography.

Oliver, Bobbie. Peacemongers: conscientious objectors to military service in Australia, 1911-1945. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle WA, 1997.

LT 355.2240994 OL4P
Overview of conscientious objection to serving in the Australian army during the World War I and II, and the legal status of conscientious objectors. Includes bibliography.

Saunders, Malcolm and Summy, Ralph. The Australian peace movement: a short history. Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra ACT,  c1986.

LT 327.172 S87A
First general history of the Australian peace movement beginning with resistance to the Sudan campaign in 1885, published to coincide with the International Year of Peace. Extensive footnotes and select bibliography.

Turner, Ian. In union is strength: a history of trade unions in Australia, 1788-1978, West Melbourne, Vic., Thomas Nelson (Australia, West Melbourne Vic, 1978, 2nd edn.

 LT 331.880994 T85I
Brief history of the Australian working class and trade union movement. Includes suggestions for further reading, footnotes and illustrations.