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I completed a PhD thesis, A Generous, Open-Hearted People: Political Constructions of National Identity in Australian Federal Election Campaign Language, 19012007, in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne in 2009. This book is based on that research but is an extensively rewritten and updated piece of work.
The original research for this book was undertaken with the financial support of an Australian government Australian Postgraduate Award. I would also like to gratefully acknowledge additional financial support for research fieldwork and travel through the Research and Graduate Studies Grant received from the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and through the Australian Research Councils Discovery Project Scheme (DP0663208).
The development of this book project was supported in its early stages by a Manuscript Sponsorship Grant from the Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers at the University of Melbourne (now the Melbourne Engagement Lab). The advice and support provided by Sybil Nolan during this process was invaluable, and I thank her for her detailed feedback and faith in this project. Thanks also to Simon Clews and the staff at the centre for their support. The final publication of this book was supported by the Publication Support and New Appointees grants from Monash University School of Media, Film and Journalism .
The findings from my original research were presented in a number of forums and publications in the journey from PhD thesis to book. While not directly reproduced here, this book revises and updates insight and analysis from earlier articles written while this research was in development: in conference papers presented over a number of years to the Australian Political Science Association Conference and to the Politics and the Media Conference at the University of Melbourne in 2008; and in the following published articles:
2012. Secure in our Identity: Regional Threat and Opportunity in Australian Election Discourse, 1993 and 1996. Australian Journal of Politics and History 58(4): 54256.
2008. Working Families and the Opportunity Society: Political Rhetoric in the 2007 Australian Federal Election Campaign. Communication, Politics and Culture 41(2): 6283.
I would like to gratefully acknowledge the following people and organizations for their assistance with archival access and research fieldwork: Siobhan Dee at Screensound Australia; Jenny Jeremy at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library; Lesley Wallace at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library; Dr Caitlin Stone at the Malcolm Fraser Collection; Jonathon Tunn at the National Press Club; Andrew Griffin at the National Archives in Melbourne, and William Edwards at the National Archives in Canberra; Marie Dudgeon in the Oral History and Folklore Department at the National Library of Australia; the staff at the Whitlam Institute, Sydney; Lisa Savage in Copyright at Channel Seven; Jenny Guion in Copyright at Channel Nine; Wai Wai Lun and Kim Mussche at the University of Queensland Library.
