Elise Howard

. Mar. 2026. 264p. ISBN 9781523525911. pbk. $22.99. GARDENING COPY ISBN Literary agent Howard has spent her career in publishing but is also a lifelong gardener since childhood. In this book, she helps fellow gardeners focus on native plant choices to support pollinators and the environment while also creating ease and beauty. Howard begins with an introduction explaining why native plants are essential and provides guiding principles for designing a garden that relies on them as its foundation.

By offering more effective training opportunities through its Seasonal Worker Programme, the Australian Government can contribute to the lives of workers and their home communities and better realise its development goals, Rochelle Lee-Bailey and Elise Howard write. Seasonal workers from Pacific Island countries and Timor-Leste are an integral part of the agricultural labour force in Australia and New Zealand.

ABSTRACT Dominant narratives of women’s suffrage have been shaped in ways that marginalize Pacific women’s experiences. Such narratives have emphasized the struggles of Global North women to achieve individualized political empowerment, primarily through the right to vote, from the late 19th century. By measures of struggle, individual empowerment and temporality, Pacific women have been characterized as passive recipients of the vote in the late 20th century.