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29 March 2012 - Sydney, the making of a public university

As one of the first significant public institutions in New South Wales, the University of Sydney helped to shape a new relationship between the colonial government and the public, with private benefaction continuing as a crucial element. The act of "giving" to such institutions was a civic duty, not so much bound by a personal relationship with God, as in charitable giving, but an act of faith in public institutions as important building blocks for the advancement of society. Private benefactors and governments were partners in funding such endeavours, and benefactors, by lending their names, could be seen to believe in their worth and usefulness.

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General practice activity in Australia 2010-11	A decade of Australian general practice activity 2001-02 to 2010-11. General practice series no. 30	Clinical data mining in an allied health organisation: a real world experience
Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before getting tested for prostate cancer	Staying power: tips and tools for keeping you on your feet	The Heart of Medicine: Portraits commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine

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• Expanding peace journalism edited by Ibrahim Shaw, Jake Lynch and Robert Hackett
• Transit of Venus 1874 [facsimile] by Charles Potter
• Official Guide to the National Park of New South Wales [facsimile] Trustees of the National Park 1904
• Carrots and sticks: principles of animal training by Paul McGreevy and Robert Boakes
• General practice activity in Australia 2010-11. General practice series no.29 by Britt H, Miller GC, Charles J, Henderson J, Bayram C, Pan Y, Valenti L, Harrison C, O'Halloran J, Zhang C & Fahridin S
• A decade of Australian general practice activity 2001-02 to 2010-11. General practice series no. 30 by Britt H, Miller GC, Charles J, Henderson J, Bayram C, Valenti L, Harrison C, Pan Y, O'Halloran J, Zhang C, Chambers T & Fahridin S
• Camouflage Australia: art nature science and war by Ann Elias
• Clinical data-mining in an allied health organisation: a real world experience edited by Ros Giles and Anne Vertigan
• Australian Urban Land Use Planning, second edition by Nicole Gurran
• The Dendroglyphs, or 'Carved Trees' of New South Wales, reprint edition by R. Etheridge, Jnr
• Social work field education and supervision across the Asian Pacific region edited by Carolyn Noble and Mark Henrickson
• To reason why: from religion to philosophy and beyond by John Burnheim
• Australian Made: a multicultural reader edited by Sonia Mycak and Amit Sarwal
• Charles Dickens' Australia: selected essays from Household Words, 1850-1859, a 5 book series, researched and presented by Margaret Mendelawitz
• Copyright future copyright freedom: marking the 40 year anniversary of the commencement of Australia's Copyright Act 1968 edited by Brian Fitzgerald and Benedict Atkinson
• Violence in France and Australia: disorder in the postcolonial welfare state edited by Craig Browne and Justine McGill
• Youth sport in Australia edited by Steve Georgakis and Kate Russell
• Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories edited by Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns
• Patrick White within the western literary tradition by John Beston
• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus W. Hume, with an introduction by Robert Dixon
• Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages edited by John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh
• Thirty years in the South Seas: land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands by Richard Parkinson
• Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before getting tested for prostate cancer by Simon Chapman, Alex Barratt and Martin Stockler

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Forthcoming publications

• The Broad Arrow by Oline Keese, with an introduction by Jenna Mead
• For the sake of a song: Wangga songmen and their repertories by Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford. From the National Indigenous Music Project

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