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Title: History as policy : framing the debate on the future of
Australia’s defence policy / editors, Ron Huisken, Meredith Thatcher.
Publisher: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2007.
ISBN: 9781921313554 (pbk.)
9781921313561 (online)
Series: Canberra papers on strategy and defence ; no. 167
Subjects: Australia–Military policy. Australia–Military policy–History.
Australia–National security. Australia–Foreign relations.
Australia–Defenses. Australia–Strategic aspects.
Other Authors: Huisken, R. H. (Ronald Herman), 1946-
Thatcher, Meredith Christine, 1966-
Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Dewey Number: 355.03350994
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Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Publications Program Advisory Review Panel: Emeritus
Professor Paul Dibb; Professor Desmond Ball; Professor David Horner; Professor Hugh White;
Professor William Tow; Professor Anthony Milner; Professor Virginia Hooker; Dr Coral Bell; Dr
Pauline Kerr
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Publications Program Editorial Board: Professor Hugh
White; Dr Brendan Taylor; Dr Christian Enemark; Miss Meredith Thatcher (series editor)
Cover design by Teresa Prowse
Cover photo (1): An F-111 of RAAF 6 Squadron at Air Show Practice (2005).
Photographer: Leading Aircraftman David Gibbs. Air Force Imagery Register (AFIR) No.
000178785_3_0008 6 Squadron Air Show Practice A8-277. Image 000178785_3_0008.jpg,
available from Defence Image gallery (<http://www.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/>), courtesy
of the Australian Government, Department of Defence.
Cover photo (2): Morning sunrise in the southern desert of Iraq, as Australian soldiers
begin to prepare their Bushmaster Infantry Mobility vehicle for the day ahead (2006).
Photographer: Corporal Rob Nyffenegger. Image 20061109adf8243116_025.JPG, available
from Defence Image gallery (<http://www.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/>), courtesy of the
Australian Government, Department of Defence.
Cover photo (3): Artist’s impression of the Buque de Proyección Estratégica design, on
which the RAN’s two new Canberra class large amphibious ships will be based. To be
designed by Spanish company Navantia SA, and constructed by Tenix Defence Pty Ltd in
Australia, the ships are due to enter service from 2013, available at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_class_large_amphibious_ship>. For further
details about the Navantia-Tenix LHD project, see <http://www.lhd.tenix.com/index.asp> .
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