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Ralph P Neale

Letters

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February 2008, no. 298

Calling for a revolution in higher education

Dear Editor,

In his victory speech on 24 November 2007, Kevin Rudd reaffirmed education as a key priority for the future of this country. We believe that a true education revolution must include a new wave of higher education reform - reform that will redress the imbalances that have characterised the sector of the last decade or more. Such reform should redirect resources back into the core university activities of teaching and research. We urge immediate attention and commitment to the following:

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Racers of the Deep: The Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852 - 1869 by Ralph P. Neale

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December 2007–January 2008, no. 297
Gillian Dooley reviews 'Racers of the Deep' by Ralph P. Neale

In the years before steamships gained supremacy of the oceans, sailing ships became faster and were able, for two decades, to outrun the primitive new technology. This book concentrates on the clippers built in North America and used on the run from Liverpool to Melbourne during this period.

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