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IAN DUNCAN Government Publications Librarian, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2OC6

All items are available from Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS) bookshops in Canberra and each state capital city. Mail orders must be sent to: Mail Order Sales, Australian Govern- ment Publishing Service, G.P.O. Box 84, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. Unless a credit account has been established, the total cost including postage must be sent with the order, and remittances made payable to “Collector of Public Monies- AGPS.‘” Orders from overseas clients who are not credit account holders should be accompanied by a bank draft in Australian currency.

435. Antarctic Treaty: Report of the Twelfth Consultative Meeting, Canberra, 13-27 September 19g3. 1984. 134 p. With ill., map. (Cat. no. 83-2242-8) ISBN O-644-03097-6; $A5.10.

Representatives of the Consultative Par- ties to the Antarctic Treaty met in Australia for the purpose of exchanging information, and considering and recommen~ng to their governments measures in furtherance of the principles and objectives of the Treaty. The Contracting Parties are: Argentina, Austra- lia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, the Fed- eral Republic of Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the Republic of South Africa, the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Items discussed at the meeting included: improvement of tele- communications in Antarctica, man’s impact on the Antarctic environment, effects of tourism, uses of Antarctic ice, activities of countries not party to the Treaty, and facili- tation of scientific research.

436. Australian Environmental Education Re source Guide. 1983. 36 p. With bibliog. (Australian Enviroment Council Report, no. 10; Cat. no. 83-0986-l) ISBN ~~02~1-2; SA2.00.

This guide identifies sources of information on the environment. It contains a syn- opsis of environmental education in Aus- tralia, a bibliography of published material,

and a list of names and addresses of Aus- tralian organisations.

437. Australian Financial System: Report of the Review Group, December, 1983. 1984. 35@ pi (Cat. no. 84-0016-9) ISBN O-644-03136-0; SA17.20.

The Review Group was ~tablished by the government to examine various aspects of the financial system with the purpose of providing a basis for government consideration of possible changes to the system. The Group considered the regulation of banking and non-bank financial institutions, the participation in banking by domestic and foreign interests, the impact of recent government policy on the financial system, the need for domestic borrowing by the government, and the need for special arrangments for capital works finance and assistance to business. The Review Group concluded that many government constr~nts on the financial system operate to limit desirable competition and developments in the community’s interests without significantly contributing to the government’s economic and social objectives, and recommended new policies to en- hance competition in banking and new policies relating to entry into banking by domestic and foreign interests.

438. Australian Veterans Health Studies: Pilot Study Report. 1983. 4 v. With bibliog., graphs, tab. (Cat. nos. 83-0582-3,83-0583-5,

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83-0584-7, 83-0585-9) ISBN O-644-01255-2; $A6.40.

A study group called the Australian Vet- erans Herbicide Studies investigated the possible health-related effects of herbicide expo- sure in Vietnam on Australian veterans and their families. A national survey was conducted into morbidity in veterans, repro- ductive difficulties in veterans’ partners, and birth anomalies in veterans’ children. The results of this study were inconclusive because of the very restricted sample and the lack of consistency in answers to questions. More conclusive results are expected from the work of the Royal Commission into the use of chemical agents in Vietnam which began in May, 1983.

439. Cabinet Handbook. 1983. 47 p. (Cat no. 83-1631-7) ISBN O-644-02937-4; $A2.70

This handbook lays down the procedures by which the present Australian Cabinet system operates. It includes information on the organisation of the Cabinet, Cabinet con- ventions and principles, the Cabinet program, Cabinet business, the elements of the consultation process, the preparation of Cabinet documents, Cabinet decisions, and the security and handling of Cabinet documents.

440. Commonwealth Government Directory 1983. Volume 1: Offices and Personnel. 338 p. (Cat. no. 83-0846-o) ISSN 9725-5403 (3 v.), 0810-3615 (v. 1); $A8.50.

The ~ornrnonwe~~i~ government Direc- tory is the official guide to the organisation, executive personnel, and services of the Aus- tralian federal government. Prior to 1983, the Directory was published annually in a single volume. It included the names and addresses of government agencies and their executive personnel, with a brief description of their establishment, role, and functions. The Directory’s format has been changed in order to meet the requirements of Section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 which came into operation on 1 December 1982, and is now published in three volumes. Vol- ume 1 lists government agencies with the names and addresses, telephone, telex, and facsimile numbers of their executive personnel. It is intended that Volume 1 will be published twice a year and that future editions of Volume 1 will include a subject index to all three volumes.

Commonwealth Government Directory 1983. Volume 2: FOI statements. (29 v.)

Section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 requires departments and agencies to publish statements about their organisation, functions, decision-making powers, consultative arrangements, categories of documents maintained, and facilities and procedures to enable members of the public to obtain access to documents under the Act. Section 8 statements are published in Volume 2 which comprises 29 separate subtitles, rep- resenting 28 portfolios:

441. Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio. 33 p. (Cat. no. 83-0181-o) ISSN 0810-3631; $A1.95.

442. Admin~~~ve Services Portfolio. 50 p. (Cat. no. 83-0934-5) ISSN 0810-3~X; SA2.60.

443. Attorney-General’s Portfolio. 168 p. (Cat. no. 83-1019-6) ISSN 0810-3658; $A6.60.

444. Aviation Portfolio. 30 p. (Cat. no. 83- 0184-6) ISSN 0810-3666; $A1.80.

445. Communications Portfolio. 84 p. (Cat. no. 83-1735-7) ISSN 0810-3682; $A3.80.

446. Defence Portfolio. 70 p. (Cat. no. 83- 0933-3) ISSN 0810-3836; $A3.30.

447. Defeuce Support Portfolio. 16 p. (Cat. no. 83-1021-6) ISSN 0810-3704; $Al.40.

448. Education and Youth Affairs Portfolio. 160 p. (Cat. no. 83-1022-8) ISSN 0810-3712; $A6.60.

449. Employment and Industrial Relations Port- folio. 50 p. (Cat. no. 83-0993-o) ISSN 0810-3720: $A2.50.

450. Finance Portfolio. 19 p. (Cat. no. 83-0932-l) ISSN 0810-3739; $A1.70.

451. Foreign Affairs Portfolio. 36 p. (Cat. no. 83-0182-2) ISSN 0180-3747; $A2.10.

452. Health Portfolio. 99 p. (Cat. no. 83-0931-X) ISSN 0810-3755: $A4.20.

453, Home Affairs and Environment Portfolio. 160 p. (Cat. no. 83-1024-I) ISSN 0810-3763; $A6.40.

454. Housing and Construction Portfolio. 23 p. (Cat. no. 83-1025-3) ISSN 0812-3845; $Al.70.

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455. Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Portfolio. 31 p. (Cat. no. 83-0936-9) ISSN 0810-3771; $Al.50.

456. Industry and Commerce Portfolio. 53 p. (Cat. no. 83-1026-5) ISSN 0810-378X; SA2.70.

457. Primary Industry Portfolio. 105 p. (Cat. no. 83-1027-7) ISSN 0810-3801; $A4.40.

458. Prime Minister’s Portfolio. 41 p. (Cat. no. 83-0183-4) ISSN 0810-9478; $A2.30.

459. Resources and Energy Portfolio. 62 p. (Cat. no. 83-0935-7) ISSN 0810-3798; $A3.00.

460. Science and Technology Portfolio. 83 p. (Cat. no. 83-1028-9) ISSN 0810-381X; $A3.80.

461. Social Security Portfolio. 47 p. (Cat. no. 83-1003-o) ISSN 0810-3828; $A2.50.

462. Special Minister of State’s Portfolio. 80 p. (Cat. no. 83-1029-o) ISSN 0810-3879; $A3.60.

463. Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Portfolio. 31 p. (Cat. no. 83-1033-4) ISSN 0812-3853, $A2.00.

464. Territories and Local Government Port- folio. 204 p. (Cat. no. 83-1020-4) ISSN 0810-3674; $A8.10.

465. Trade Portfolio. 13 p. (Cat. no. 83-1030-9) ISSN 0810-3836; $A1.40.

466. Transport Portfolio. 15 p. (Cat. no. 83-1031-o) ISSN 0810-3844; $A1.70.

467. Treasurer’s Portfolio (Part 1). 53 p. (Cat. no. 83-0929-X) ISSN 0810-3852; $A2.60.

468. Treasurer’s Portfolio (Part 2). 36 p. (Cat. no. 83-0930-8) ISSN 0810-3852; $A2.30.

469. Veteran’s Affairs Portfolio. 84 p. (Cat. no. 83-1032-2) ISSN 0810-3860; $A3.80.

470. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937-49. Volume VI: July 1942-December 1943. 1983. 676 p. (Cat. no. 83-0965-o) ISBN O-644-02490-9; $k35.00.

This volume covers Australia’s diplomatic activity and foreign policy from July 1942 to December 1943. During these 18 months, Australia’s strategic predicament see-sawed

as earlier Allied naval victories were offset by Japanese land offences in Papua and the Solomon Islands, only to be followed by Allied victories at Kokoda, Buna, and Gua- dalcanal. It was a period in which Australia’s preoccupations were intensely regional and concerned with problems remote from the centres of North Atlantic power. Australia’s residual reciprocal obligations within the British Commonwealth were balanced against her new position as the base for any Allied counter-offensive against the southern perimeter of Japan’s conquests. The sixth volume in the series Documents on Austru- lian Foreign Policy 1937-49, it contains 356 previously unpublished documents.

471. Equality in Diversity. Fifty Years of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. 1983. 180 p. (Cat. no. 83-2387-8) ISBN O-644- 03042-9; $A15.60.

The Commonwealth Grants Commission is a statutory authority which was established in 1933 as an independent arbiter between the federal and state governments in the area of inter-governmental financial relations. The Commission inquires into appli- cations from the states for special federal government grants under Section 96 of the Constitution: “The Parliament may grant financial assistance to any State on such terms and conditions as the Parliament thinks fit.”

472. Guidelines for the Operation of National Research Facilities: A Report to the Prime Minister by the Australian Science and Tecb- nology Council (ASTEC). 1984. 25 p. (Cat. no. 84-0075-4) ISBN O-644-03146-8; $A1.90.

As well as providing a brief review of cur- rent policies and of existing shared research facilities, this report is concerned with the management of national research facilities, with levying charges on their users, and with mechanisms for providing the finance re- quired.

473. Health of Atomic Test Personnel. 1983. 128 p. (Cat. no. 83-2258-3) ISBN O-644-03065-8; $A4.90.

This report analyses the information ob- tained from completed questionnaires re- ceived from Australian personnel who took part in the British atomic test programmes in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. The main aim was to identify any association between

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atomic test programme involvement and subsequent illness.

Labour Force Participation in Australia: The Proceedings of a Conference. 1984. 178 p. With graphs, tab. (Bureau of Labour Market Research Monograph Series, no. 1; Cat. no. 82-0920-X) ISBN o-644-02543-4; $A9.50. The conference was organised by the Bureau of Labour Market Research to stimulate and co-ordinate research in the area of labour force participation.

Living in Australia: A Guide for New Settlers. 1984. 162 p. With ill. (Cat. no. 83-1438-4) ISBN o-644-02837-8; $A2.50.

This book provides basic information to help newly arrived immigrants settle in Aus- tralia. It includes advice on the following subjects: work, education, health, money, police, law, civil rights, driving a car, family, and recreation.

Lobbyists and the Australian Government and Parliament: A Discussion Paper. 1983. 22 p. (Cat. no. 83-1574-8) ISBN O-644 02860-2; $A3.60.

This Discussion Paper recommends the establishment of a public register of profes- sional lobbyists and their clients. As a result of this report, the government established a scheme for the registration of lobbyists and their clients in March, 1984. Lobbyists not on the general register are not allowed access to government ministers or officials. A special register for lobbyists with clients who are agencies of foreign governments has also been established.

A Maintenance Agency for Australia: The Report of the National Maintenance Inquiry. 1984. 381 p. With app., tab. (Cat. no. 84-0059-2) ISBN O-644-03143-3; $A13.00.

The Family Law Branch of the Attorney- General’s Department inquired into maintenance systems and recommended in this report the establishment of a national maintenance and enforcement and collection agency. The inquiry found that only 40% of Australian maintenance orders were fully complied with and advised that the establishment of a federal government agency could improve the situation.

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Participation and Equity in Australian Schools: The Goal of Full Secondary Educa- tion. Canberra, Commonwealth Schools Commission, 1984. 33 p. ISBN O-642-8741- 3; $A3.60. [Available from A.G.P.S.].

This report contains an analysis of the Schools Commission objectives of reducing the number of students leaving full-time education prematurely and of fostering more equal educational outcomes.

Royal Commission on Australia’s Security and intelligence Agencies. Report on Terms of Reference (c). 1983. 312 p. (Cat. no. 83-1977-4) ISBN o-644-02988-9; $A10.30.

The Royal Commission was constituted as a judicial review of the Australian Intelli- gence Organisation (ASIO), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the De- fence Signals Directorate, the Joint Intelli- gence Organisation (JIO), and the Office of National Assessments (ONA). This is the report on the Royal Commission’s Term of Reference (c): to inquire into “the circumstances, including the actions of the Govern- ment, surrounding the expulsion from Australia of Mr. Valeriy Nikolayevich Ivanov, First Secretary, Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the involvement of Mr. Harvey David Mathew Combe in those circumstances.”

Mr. Combe was National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party from 1973-1981. In 1982 he set up business in Canberra as a con- sultant and lobbyist. AS10 opened a file on him in 1976 which recorded his contact with various officials of the Soviet Embassy. The circumstances examined by the Royal Com- mission arose from ASIO’s advice to the Government that Mr. Ivanov, a suspected KGB officer, was cultivating Mr. Combe with the aim of recruiting him as an agent.

Royal Commission on Australia’s Security and Intelligence Agencies. Report on the Sheraton Hotel Incident. 1984. 81 p. (Cat. no. 84-0373-g) ISBN 0-644-03198-O; $A4.60.

On the night of 30 November 1983, there was an incident at the Sheraton Hotel, Mel- bourne, arising from a training exercise by members of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). The exercise was intended to be conducted secretly, however it was re- vealed that the trainees had been carrying weapons, had threatened members of the public, and had caused damage to the hotel

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by forcing entry into a room. The government asked Mr. Justice Hope to undertake an inquiry into this incident as part of his more general inquiry into Australia’s security and intelligence agencies. This report presents the results of Justice Hope’s inquiry, and discusses the circumstances of the exercise itself, ASIS’s covert action capability, re- sponsibility of ASIS’s officers for what went wrong, and possible offences by those in- volved. Despite recommendations within the report that this report be classified ‘top secret’ the government decided to declassify it in the interest of promoting a better understanding of the incident. The acting head of ASIS, a distinguished career diplomat, subsequently resigned from the public service.

481. Special Prosecuter’s Office: Report to the Attorney-General, by R.V. Giles, Q.C. 1983. 15 p. (Cat. no. 83-0578-X) ISBN 0-644-0125- 8; $Al.70.

The Special Prosecutor was appointed in 1982, for a two-year term, to assume respon- sibility for prosecuting companies which engage in taxation frauds involving profit- stripping activities whereby they dispose of assets to evade tax.

482. Teaching, Learning and Computers: Report of the National Advisory Committee on Computers in Schools. 1983. 88 p. (Cat. no. 83-7048-o) ISBN 0-642-87520-O; $A6.20.

In March, 1983, the Commonwealth Schools Commission appointed the National Advisory Committee on Computers in Schools. The Committee was requested to provide a report on a viable computer education program related directly to computer education in secondary schools. The Com- mittee undertook consultations with a range of national organisations. In this report, the Committee outlines a rationale for a national program and indicates the objectives which it believes the program should have and the principles which it considers should support its development.

483. Work Experience in Australian Secondary Schools, by Ralph G. Straton and Maxine

Murray. 1984. 47 p. (Cat. no. 84-0124-2); $A2.90.

This report is based upon the work carried out within the project “Critical Review of Work Experience Programs in Schools” un- dertaken by the then-Department of Educa- tion through the Institute for Social Program Evaluation at Murdoch University. The report provides an integration and consolida- tion of all major aspects of the project including interviews conducted with persons responsible for work experience at the state and local level in many parts of Australia and case studies of work experience programs at four Australian high schools.

484. Youth Policies, Programs and Issues: An Australian Background Paper, by the De- partment of Education and Youth Affairs for the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development. 1983. 290 p. (Cat. no. 83-2237-2) ISBN o-644-03026-7; $A15.50.

Of the Australian population, 2.6 million or 17.4% are aged 15-25. Of the total population, 21% were born overseas and a fur- ther 21% were born in Australia of immigrant parents. This background paper outlines the government programs currently available to young people in Australia.

485. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 1: Amphibia and Reptilia. 1983. 313 p. With ind. (Cat. no. 83-1536-3) A$20.00.

The Zoological Catalogue of Australia, when fully compiled, will list every named animal species known to occur in Australia. Information for each species will include synonymy, a brief summary of geographical distribution and ecological attributes, and introductory references to available literature on ecology, physiology, and genetics. The series is planned to comprise approximately 50 volumes, to be published over a IO-year period. It is being coordinated and edited by the Bureau of Flora and Fauna, Department of Home Affairs and Environment, as part of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS).