Australian Financial Review
Is a financial newspaper published by the Fairfax press in Sydney since 1951. It was established as a weekly but converted to a bi-weekly in 1961 and a daily in ...
Australian Financial Review Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
... Financial Review is a financial newspaper published by the Fairfax press in Sydney since 1951 . It was established as a weekly but converted to a bi-weekly in 1961 and a daily in 1963 . The Australian Financial Times , published by Packer 's Consolidated Press, was a brief competitor, running for less than 12 months in 1961–62 . Although it was a specialist business paper, the Financial Review developed a wider readership as a result of its substantial neutral coverage of politics and informed criticism of government economic policy in the...
Australian Financial Review
12 The Economics of Print Reference library
Alexis Weedon
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...trade and financial services. In the publishing industry, trade to the empire was strongest during periods of colonial expansion. Customs figures for the declared value of book exports indicate that there was a strong early market in India from the 1820s to the 1840s ( see 39 ). In the early 1850s , however, Australia became a significant consumer of British books: by 1868 the weight of books being shipped to Australia was five times greater than the weight to India ( see 44 ). The export trade suffered reversals in the Australian financial crises of...
Davis Review
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virtue Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (4 ed.)
... 1374 by Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde . 2002 Australian Financial Review Making in the best manner a virtue out of a necessity he went native with great of easy virtue : see easy . ...
Defence Coordination, Department of Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
...it was to coordinate. Its responsibilities included defence policy; administrative, financial and works coordination and review; administration of the National Security Act and Regulations and maintenance of the Commonwealth War Book ; and civil defence issues. With the Prime Minister holding the portfolio, the department was the central component of the machinery for the higher direction of the war, providing the secretariat for the War Cabinet ( see Australian War Cabinet ), the Defence Committee and the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Its...
Month Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...of Australian philistinism and the creation of a national literature based on the highest standards of European excellence. Among his own contributions to the Month was a series of nine travel essays titled ‘Sydney and Its Suburbs’. Much of the magazine's material was not particularly Australian in character, although it did offer reviews of Australian books and occasional serials on bush life; its highlight was the series ‘The World of Books’. Under Moore's editorship, the Month became less substantial as a literary journal and perished through financial...
Summers, Anne (1945– ) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...liberation movement. Political correspondent of the Australian Financial Review , she became the first woman president of the national press gallery in 1982 and won the Walkley Award for journalism in 1976 for her report on conditions in prisons in NSW. Her polemical book Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia ( 1975 , updated 1993 with a reassessment of the achievements of the women's movement), is an attempt to begin the process of reanalysing Australian society and history and to suggest a new framework ‘in the...
CBCA Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...Books, and the Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration. The CBCA Awards Foundation raises funding to give winners a financial reward, as well as the prestige of a win, shortlisting, or inclusion in the Notable Books list for that year. Each state of Australia has its own Branch and Sub-branches, and responsibility for the organization, under the direction of the National Board, is rotated through the states. The Australian Capital Territory Branch financially supports the Lu Rees Archives, and the New South Wales Branch awards the Lady Cutler Award...
Scratchley, Major-General Sir Peter Henry (24 August 1835–2 December 1885) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
...for the Manufacturing Department at the War Office, a position he held for 12 years. In 1874 , newly promoted lieutenant-colonel, he was appointed to assist Sir William Jervois in reviewing the defences of the Australian colonies. Jervois became Governor of South Australia in 1878 , and the following year Scratchley was appointed Commissioner of Defences of all the Australian colonies and New Zealand. Scratchley believed in the protection that British seapower could afford the colonies, and he rejected costly schemes to raise large local forces, preferring...
Turner, Henry Gyles (1831–1920) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
...of the Commercial Bank of Australia from 1870 he achieved wealth and prestige. The bank took full advantage of the borrowing and lending opportunities in the boom of the 1880s, and was hit hard in the subsequent crash, when Turner was president of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce; it suspended trade in 1893 and was slowly reconstructed until his retirement in 1901 . Turner was a leading member of the Unitarian Church (his sister Martha was minister of the Melbourne congregation), a founder of the Melbourne Review , and with Alexander...
Financial Turbulence and Crisis Reference library
Caner Bakir, Sinan Akgunay, and Mehmet Kerem Coban
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
...recessions (pp. 3–20). Australian National University Press. Thiemann, M. (2014). In the shadow of Basel: How competitive politics bred the crisis. Review of International Political Economy , 21 (6), 1203–1239. Tooze, A. (2018). Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world . Viking. Tooze, A. (2020, April 14). How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system . Guardian . Notes 1. Implied volatility is a forward-looking approach for modeling the estimated volatility of a financial asset within a specified...
Banking Reference library
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
...Malcolm (2001), ‘Banking regulation and market forces in Australia’, International Review of Financial Analysis 10...
Australia Council Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...political considerations; and ‘peer review’, in which policy decisions and grants selections are made by fellow artists and community representatives of those being assessed. The ‘peer review’ principle has been both supported and criticised; those who object to it point to the possibility of ‘cronyism’. Broadly the Council's functions are to promote excellence in the arts in Australia, to promote the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of the arts among Australians, to foster the expression of a national Australian identity by means of the arts and to...
OECD Reference library
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
...of the world economy. Unlike the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, however, the OECD does not dispense money. Its primary contribution to these aims is through individual country surveys, reviews of member states' domestic growth, and developing reliable sources of comparable statistical, economic and social data. Lacking any executive or financial mechanisms of enforcement, the organisation relies on persuasion and consensus among member‐states in achieving these aims. The OECD's decision making body, the Council, is made up of permanent...
