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The Packaging of Australia : Politics & Culture Wars
author
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Melleuish, Gregory.
publisher
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University of New South Wales
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780868405841
ebook isbn13
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9780585348773
language
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English
subject
National characteristics, Australian, Political culture--Australia--History--20th century, Australia--Politics and government--1945- , Australia--Intellectual life--20th century, Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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DU121.M45 1998eb
ddc
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305.8/00994
subject
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National characteristics, Australian, Political culture--Australia--History--20th century, Australia--Politics and government--1945- , Australia--Intellectual life--20th century, Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
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The Packaging of Australia
Politics & Culture Wars
Gregory Melleuish
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Published by UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES PRESS LTD University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 Australia
Gregory Melleuish First published in 1998
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the copyright holder.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
The packaging of Australia : politics and culture wars. Includes index. ISBN 0 86840 584 1. 1. National characteristics. Australia. 2. Culture Political aspects Australia. 3. Australia Politics and government 1990. 4. Australia Economic policy 1990. 5. Australia Social life and customs 1990. I. Melleuish. Gregory. 1954. II. Title. 305.800994
Designer: Di Quick Editor: Roderic Campbell Managing Editor: Nada Madjar
Publisher: Robin Derricourt
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
6
I The Creation of Modern Australia
7
1 Three Phases of Australian History
8
2 A Contradictory Democratic Culture
16
II An Age of Uncertainity
28
3 The End of Empire and a New Individualism
29
4 Cultural Diversity and a Deregulated Australia
46
5 Politics: Pressure Groups, Interest Movements and Political Parties
61
III Living in an Age of Package
74
6 Economic Rationalism and the Clever Country
75
7 Republicanism and Multiculturalism
94
8 Resisting Packages: The New Populism
111
IV Conclusion
124
9 Australia Beyond Uncertainty and Packages
125
Endnotes
133
Index
140
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to thank my wife Diana for all the hard work she did typing the manuscript of this book, making pertinent and useful comments about its contents, and for correcting my stylistic excesses, and my children Alice and Helen for their patience while this book was being completed. I would also like to thank all of those people who kindly read the manuscript for me and commented on it: Andrew Norton, Geoffrey Bolton, Peter Coleman, Peter Day, Geoff Stokes and Wayne Hudson. As usual, final responsibility for the content of the book rests with the author.
Parts of chapters 2 and 3 of this book were published as 'Beyond the Australian Settlement: A Transformed Identity and Culture?' Political Expressions, vol 1, no 1, 1995, pp10114. A version of chapter 1 was originally published in Quadrant, vol 60, no 9, 1996, pp4852.
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PART I THE CREATION OF MODERN AUSTRALIA
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Chapter 1 Three Phases of Australian History
The year 1996 will long be remembered as the year of the two HsHoward and Hanson. Firstly, in March 1996 John Howard won a stunning electoral victory, sweeping the Liberal-National Coalition back into power after thirteen years in the wilderness. Then, in the second half of the year, the so-called Hanson phenomenon seemed to take the country by storm as Pauline Hanson gave voice to views on race, immigration, welfare and national identity that had simmered under the surface of Australian life during the politically correct 1990s. The contrast with the previous twelve months could not have been greater. At that time we had the then prime minister, Paul Keating, in full flight seeking to transform Australia in line with his 'big picture'. Australia was to be multicultural, Asianised, forced to become more international in its outlook, as it moved towards the republic we had to have. In the process Australia was to throw off the shackles of its past, which stood condemned as racist, sexist and in thrall to the British. Keating was to lead the country into a new era, in which the sins of the past would be washed away.
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