Alison Mackinnon

About The Author

Alison Mackinnon is Professor Emerita of the University of South Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She was the Foundation Director of the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia and has written widely on educational and women's history.

Books by Alison Mackinnon

New Kid on the Block

The University of South Australia in the Unified National System

By Alison Mackinnon
The reconstruction of higher education in Australia at the end of the 1980s radically reshaped many existing universities. However, in South Australia, Dawkins's educational changes brought into existence an entirely new university, the University of South Australia, formed by the merging of two ...
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Fresh Water

New Perspectives on Water in Australia

Editor Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay
Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought...
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