Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 2000

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 2000

The politics of federation. (Centenary of Federation Special).
January 1, 2000... Although federation was essentially a political act, putting in place a new sphere of governance, little attention has been paid to the achievement of federation as a political process. This paper addresses the politics of federation. Its...

Federation and national identity in Canada and Australia: a comparative perspective. (Centenary of Federation Special).
January 1, 2000... Can representative democratic government work where there exist significant and enduring differences of group identity? It is sometimes suggested that one of the answers to the tensions between identity politics and democracy might be the...

Can't wait for the sequel: Australian federation as unfinished business. (Centenary of Federation Special).
January 1, 2000... Geography is a central organising principle behind federalism in Australia, providing indispensable material for historical analysis and future constitutional development. However, while federation was vital to the evolution of institutions for...

Active citizenship: a role for women municipal councillors? (I) (Articles).
January 1, 2000... Citizenship is a central concept in western political thinking and one that has attracted considerable attention in academic and political debates of recent years. (II) Nevertheless, citizenship is an ambiguous term, encompassing a range of...

Mark Latham, the Third Way and the Australian welfare state. (Articles).
January 1, 2000... This article explores the political philosophy known as the Third Way, and its approach to the welfare state. Third Way ideas are seen as a response by social democrats to the global social and economic changes impacting on traditional welfare...

Republicanising the head of state. (Critical Comment).
January 1, 2000... The seminar, "Republicanising the Australian Head of State: The Way Forward", chaired within the Political Science Department by Professor Brian Galligan on 11 October 2000, focused on my book, Democracy: choosing Australia's republic (MUP,...

Frank Hardy: gambling on justice.
January 1, 2000... Pauline Armstrong Frank Harding and the Making of Power Without Glory Melbourne University Press. Melbourne 2000 $43.95 Frank Hardy's first and most famous novel, Power Without Glory, was researched and written in secret, hidden from the...

Democracy: Choosing Australia's Republic.
January 1, 2000... Richard E. McGarvie Melbourne University Press Melbourne, 1999 ISBN 0 522 84808 7 Richard McGarvie, former Supreme Court Judge and Victorian Governor (1992-97), played a prominent role in the 1998 Constitutional Convention, and in the...

The Australian Federal Judicial System.
January 1, 2000... Brian Opeskin and Fiona Wheeler (eds) Melbourne University Press Melbourne 2000 xvii 537 pp ISBN 0 522 84889 3 Of the three branches of the Australian federal state, the judiciary is certainly the least familiar, perhaps the least...

The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation.
January 1, 2000... Helen Irving (ed) Cambridge University Press Oakleigh 1999 474 pp ISBN 0 521 57314 9 It may not quite be capturing the public's imagination, but 2001 is the centenary year of Australian federation. No doubt timed to coincide with this...

S. Rufus Davis Theory and Reality: Federal Ideas in Australia, England and Europe.
January 1, 2000... University of Queensland Press St. Lucia, 1995, xiii 240pp ISBN 070222605X In Theory & Reality S. Rufus Davis offers a selection of essays, articles and lectures from a career spent in the study of federalism. Davis is probably best known...

Patricia Crawford and Philippa Maddern (eds.) Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories.
January 1, 2000... Melbourne University Press Melbourne 2001 284 pp $32.95 (pbk) ISBN 0 522 84908 3 Federation is the starting point for this collection of papers that look at the position of women as Australian citizens. Although the book claims to be...