Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 1998

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 1998

When Pauline Speaks: Parliamentary Speech and Reconciliation.(Pauline Hanson, Australia)
January 1, 1998... Introduction Pauline Hanson's comments in Parliament on the so-called `race issue' have been hurtful and divisive. She has referred to "the privileges that Aboriginals enjoy over other Australians" and has been critical of the so-called...

Aboriginal Reconciliation: transformations in settler nationalism.
January 1, 1998... We have to amend the past wrongs, promote an understanding between all Australians for a better relationship and accept that we are one nation. (The Hon. Helen Sham-Ho, Liberal Party MLC, NSW.) Reconciliation is the building of a united...

The Truth Hurts: Psychoanalytic Speculations on Reconciliation.
January 1, 1998... If the perception of reality entails unpleasure, that perception--that is, the truth--must be sacrificed. (Sigmund Freud(1)) Since the arrival of white settlers in Australia in 1788, official historiography has been hegemonic. It tells a...

Voting Rights and the Image of the Nomad.
January 1, 1998... Introduction It is a feature of the literature surrounding Aboriginal identity that Aboriginal agency is most obvious and most easily detected in the period since 1967. For reasons of opportunism and imported practices and influences, the...

The Jungian Quest for the Aborigine Within: A Close Reading of David Tacey's Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia(1).
January 1, 1998... The opinion is now frequently expressed that the acquisition of Aboriginal cultural property will assist non-Aborigines in overcoming a range of afflictions that they allegedly suffer. To list but some of these, it is posited that Aboriginal...

What Are We Afraid Of?: Intellectualism, Aboriginality, and the Sacred.(respone to article by Mitchell Rolls in this issue, p. 171)
January 1, 1998... I thank the editors of the Melbourne Journal of Politics for the opportunity to offer some brief response to Mitchell Rolls. The differences between my own intellectual position and his reductive or materialist worldview strike me as almost...

Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship
January 1, 1998... John Chesterman and Brian Galligan, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 277pp., ISBN 052159751X, Aus$29.95. Citizenship is a fluid concept which has preoccupied many...

The New Contractualism?(Review)
January 1, 1998... Glyn Davis, Barbara Sullivan and Anna Yeatman (eds), The New Contractualism?, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1997, 272pp., ISBN 0732944422, Aus$34.95. This collection of essays examines from a variety of perspectives new and old forms of...

The Public Sector in Jeopardy: Australian Fiscal Federalism from Whitlam to Keating
January 1, 1998... Russell Matthews and Bhajan Grewel, The Public Sector in Jeopardy: Australian Fiscal Federalism from Whitlam to Keating, Melbourne, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, 1997, 856pp., ISBN 1-875338-96-9, Aus$49.95. ...

Rooting Democracy: Growing the Society We Want
January 1, 1998... Moira Rayner (with assistance from Jenny Lee), Rooting Democracy: Growing the Society We Want, St. Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1997, 296pp., ISBN 1864481323, Aus$17.95. Resistance to the privatisation of society that is occurring in...

Accountability And Corruption: Public Sector Ethics
January 1, 1998... Gordon L Clark, Elizabeth Prior Jonson and Wayne Caldow (eds), Accountability And Corruption: Public Sector Ethics, St Leonards, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1997, 207pp, ISBN 1864484233, Aus$24.95. An initial reading of this text may lead the...

Governance, Administration and Development: Making the State Work
January 1, 1998... Mark Turner and David Hulme, Governance, Administration and Development: Making the State Work, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1997, 272 pp., ISBN 0-333-56753-6, Aus$34.95. There is a long and, only occasionally, honourable...

Australian Politics, 3d ed
January 1, 1998... Owen E. Hughes, Australian Politics (3rd Edition), South Yarra, Victoria, Macmillan Education Australia, 1998, ISBN 0732927889, Aus$42.95. Australian politics has moved into a new era since the defeat of the ALP in the 1996 federal...

Metaphors of Light and Darkness: The Politics of `Black armband' History.
January 1, 1998... We are witnessing a deliberate attack on our values, a deliberate attack on those who wish to promote merit and excellence, a deliberate attack on our heritage and our past. And there are those who gnaw away at our national ...

Foundations for Reconciliation in Social Science: The Political Thought of C.D. Rowley(*).
January 1, 1998... We have inherited quite a grim history, as so many other nations have; and for many reasons we must learn to apply to the facts of our own past and to current attitudes the same sociological principles which is it so much easier...

Overcoming Uncertainty: Wik Peoples v Queensland.
January 1, 1998... Introduction When Prime Minister Howard travelled to Longreach in 1997 to promote his response to the High Court's Wik judgment,(1) he claimed that he was "absolutely amazed at the level of fear and misinformation" about native title...

Alan Missen Memorial Lecture.(Aboriginal affairs, Australia)
January 1, 1998... Parliament House, Canberra Wednesday, 27 August 1997. To deliver a lecture in honour of the memory of the late Senator Alan Missen over lunch, a lunch held just prior to Question Time, is to risk doing much less than justice to his memory....

The Reconciliation `Bargain'.(Australia)
January 1, 1998... We live in times of sharp social, legal, and economic divisions, here and abroad. We approach the next century with the belief (or the hope) that--by the effluxion of time, experience and growth--it should be a much better one. We point to...