Semantic Coherence: The Federation Press – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

The Federation Press is an independent, Australian-owned and run publishing company specialising in legal, social science and academic books.

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[H2] Wilson & Coleman’s Equity in Family Law
Josh Wilson KC, Ian Coleman SC
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[H2] Administrative Law
Context and Critique
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Michael Head
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[H2] Australian Perspectives on Executive Power
Samuel White, Matthew Stubbs
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[H2] Social Work in the Shadow of the Law
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Simon Rice, Andrew Day, Linda Briskman, Sacha Kendall Jamieson
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[H2] International Law of Human Rights
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Adam McBeth, Justine Nolan, Simon Rice, Fiona McGaughey
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[H2] Constitutionally Protective Statutory Interpretation
Julian R Murphy
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[H2] Public Law and Statutory Interpretation
Principles and Practice
3rd edition
Janina Boughey, Lisa Burton Crawford, Maria O’Sullivan, Melissa Castan
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[H2] Law, Justice and Other Challenges
Selected Speeches and Papers of Michael Kirby
Dr Paul Vout KC
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[H2] The Making of the Australian Constitution
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[H2] Land Contracts in Queensland
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Stephen Lumb, S A Christensen, Stephen E Jones, W D Duncan
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Stephen Lumb, S A Christensen, Stephen E Jones, W D Duncan
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Josh Wilson KC, Ian Coleman SC
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[H2] The Making of the Australian Constitution + The Constitution and Government of Australia, 1788 to 1919 – Bundle
J.A. La Nauze, William Pitt Cobbett
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[H2] Administrative Law eBook
Context and Critique
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Michael Head
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[H2] Wilson & Coleman’s Equity in Family Law
Josh Wilson KC, Ian Coleman SC
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[H2] The Making of the Australian Constitution
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[H2] Australian Perspectives on Executive Power eBook
Samuel White, Matthew Stubbs
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[H2] Constitutionally Protective Statutory Interpretation eBook
Julian R Murphy
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[H2] Social Work in the Shadow of the Law eBook
6th edition
Simon Rice, Andrew Day, Linda Briskman, Sacha Kendall Jamieson
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[H2] International Law of Human Rights eBook
3rd edition
Adam McBeth, Justine Nolan, Simon Rice, Fiona McGaughey
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[H2] Australian Perspectives on Executive Power
Samuel White, Matthew Stubbs
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[H2] Public Law and Statutory Interpretation eBook
Principles and Practice
3rd edition
Janina Boughey, Lisa Burton Crawford, Maria O’Sullivan, Melissa Castan
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[H2] Law, Justice and Other Challenges eBook
Selected Speeches and Papers of Michael Kirby
Dr Paul Vout KC
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[H2] Strategic Human Rights Litigation in Australia eBook
Ebony Birchall
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[H2] Forum Choices in Transnational Intellectual Property Litigation eBook
Vannessa Ho
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[H2] International Law of Human Rights
3rd edition
Adam McBeth, Justine Nolan, Simon Rice, Fiona McGaughey
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[H2] Social Work in the Shadow of the Law
6th edition
Simon Rice, Andrew Day, Linda Briskman, Sacha Kendall Jamieson
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[H2] Constitutionally Protective Statutory Interpretation
Julian R Murphy
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[H4] ONIX Catalogue
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[H2] The Federation Press
Christopher Holt, Diane Young and Kathryn Fitzhenry founded The Federation Press in 1987. It is a proudly independent, Australian-owned publisher which publishes books for legal practitioners and students.
Now with over 400 books in print and publishing up to 25 new books and new editions annually the press is run by two publishers with experience at some of Australia’s largest publishing companies, combining big company depth and expertise with small company flexibility, quality and commitment. They are part of a small and incredibly productive team of experienced editors, and sales, administration and warehouse staff.
We place authors at the heart of what we do and have kept our editorial team in-house, allowing our authors the comfort and security of communicating directly and easily with their editor. Production is high-quality and local and we market our books with effort and enthusiasm. We also nurture academic talent providing publishing opportunities for new academics, including through The Holt Prize.
Additionally, The Federation Press sponsors a number of tertiary awards including The Federation Press prize for Public Law at the University of Sydney, the Administrative Law prize at the University of Western Sydney and the Francis Forbes Society of Australian Legal History Essay prize for tertiary, secondary and junior school students.
The Federation Press is based in Sydney, and wish to acknowledge and thank the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, for the opportunity to live and work on this wonderful country. We acknowledge and respect their role as First Law makers and their continuing connection to culture and country in this city.
‘Federation Press is Australian and has a great backlist. Its publications have an edge which excited me and I wanted the scope to publish a new style of text book – scholarship for a reflective student audience.’
– Jill Hunter, Professor, UNSW Sydney
‘[It’s] imperative for practitioners to build professional libraries of well written texts so as to be able to draw upon the clear and up to date distillation of principle and authority. Federation Press has been at the forefront of publishing such texts  ….’
– Andrew Bell, President, New South Wales Court of Appeal
The Desert Pea
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[H4] Permissions
All permission requests must be directed to the Publisher. Please refer to our guidelines in the attached PDF for more information: Permissions
[H4] International sales
The Federation Press works with a number of distributors and agents to make our books available around the world. However, if you live in New Zealand, the UK or Europe, you can order our titles directly via info@federationpress.com.au Please contact the following distributors or agents outside these areas:
USA
Gaunt Inc
www. gaunt.com
Email: info@gaunt.com
China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
China Publishers Services Ltd
www.cps-hk.com
Email: benbai@cps-hk.com
Japan
Yushodo Co. Ltd
www.yushodo.maruzen.co.jp
www.yushodo.maruzen.co.jp/corp/en/ (English site)
Email: Intl_bns_dpt@maruzen.co.jp
Malaysia
Publisher Marketing Services Pte Ltd
Website: www.pms.com.sg
Email: pmsmal@streamyx.com
Singapore
Publisher Marketing Services Pte Ltd
www.pms.com.sg
Email: info@pms.com.sg

[H4] ONIX Catalogue
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The Holt Prize
Entries for 2026 Holt Prize will open on 1 April 2026. The deadline for submissions is 1 July 2026. To lodge your entry please complete the entry form and submit an anonymised PDF version of your manuscript.
The judges for this year’s prize are The Honourable John Basten, Professor Lisa Burton Crawford and Jessica Hudson.
The Holt Prize is a biennial publishing award which recognises excellence in unpublished legal works of an academic or practical nature. The competition is open to first-time authors and the winner is awarded a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with The Federation Press.
The prize is named after the late Christopher Holt, co-founder of The Federation Press, who gave many academics their first publishing opportunity. It was awarded for the first time in 2015.
List of previous winners and judges
2024: The joint winners were Vannessa Ho, Forum Choices in Transnational Intellectual Property Litigation and Julian R. Murphy, Constitutionally Protective Statutory Interpretation.
The judges for 2024 were The Hon James Allsop AC, Elizabeth Collins SC and Emeritus Professor Barbara McDonald
2021: William Isdale, Compensation for Native Title
The judges for 2021 were The Hon Susan Crennan AC QC, Emeritus Professor Mark Aronson and Perry Herzfeld SC.
2019: Shipra Chordia, Proportionality in Australian Constitutional Law
The judges for 2019 were The Hon Professor William Gummow AC, The Hon Justice Alan Robertson and Ruth Higgins SC.
2017: Dylan Lino, Constitutional Recognition: First Peoples and the Australian Settler State
The judges for 2017 were The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC, The Hon Keith Mason AC QC and Professor George Williams AO.
2015: The joint winners were Dr Giovanni Di Lieto, Migrant Labour Law: Unfolding Justice at Work in Free Markets and Dr Scott Stephenson, From Dialog to Disagreement in Comparative Rights Constitutionalism.
In 2015, The Federation Press also published the outstanding works of these finalists: Dr Yee-Fui Ng, Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context and Dr James Watson, The Origins of the Duty to Account.
The judges for 2015 were Justice Stephen Gageler, Neil Williams SC and Professor Andrew Lynch.