The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from December 2007

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from December 2007

"De-skilling" the 1891 censuses in New South Wales and Tasmania.(occupation classification)
December 1, 2007... I In the 1891 censuses taken in New South Wales and Tasmania the colonies' fifty-year practice of using skill-based categories to classify workers was abandoned, and working-class occupations were classified regardless of their skill...

Sacred sovereigns and punishable war crimes: the ambivalence of the Wilson Administration towards a trial of Kaiser Wilhelm II *.(Author abstract)
December 1, 2007... At the conclusion of the First World War, German guilt surrounding the origins of the conflict was decided by executive decision between the Allied victors. A neutral inquiry into the origins of the Great War was considered unnecessary, since...

The "middle power" concept in Australian foreign policy.(diplomacy)
December 1, 2007... Introduction As the Cold War structures began to collapse in the early 1990s, the Australian Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, set about positioning Australia as an activist "middle power" on the international stage. (1) Through a series of...

Decades of disillusion: reappraising the ALP-ACTU Accord 1983-1996.(Australian Labor Party-Australian Council of Trade Unions)
December 1, 2007... From 1983 to 1996, the ALP-ACTU Accord provided the overarching policy framework within which the Australian labour movement pursued its industrial and political goals, though this strategic direction was never consummated by the party in...

The Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings: a case study of the Australian "women in agriculture" movement.(rural women's activism)(Case study)
December 1, 2007... Introduction Traditional political history has privileged formal and conventional institutions together with elite actors and those in positional power. It has thus marginalised or obscured the history of women's political activism which...

"In the national interest": Australia's approach to nuclear proliferation in a changing international environment.
December 1, 2007... The "Australia-China Nuclear Material Transfer Agreement and Nuclear Cooperation Agreement" signed on 4 April 2006 raises a number of important questions regarding not only Australia's relationship with the PRC but more broadly Australia's...

Issues in Australian foreign policy January to June 2007.
December 1, 2007... The first half of 2007 ended with a reminder about the reality of global terrorism when two failed car bombs were found outside the Tiger Tiger night club in London on 29 June. The next day, a car loaded with burning gas cylinders was driven...

Commonwealth of Australia: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... Shadow Dancing Towards the 2007 Election The election year began with Prime Minister John Howard facing the new Opposition leader, Kevin Rudd. Two developments were immediately apparent: as a younger fresher face Rudd played up his novelty...

New South Wales: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... It wouldn't be an election year in New South Wales state politics without a bidding war on law and order. And so it was as the New Year dawned and the Premier, Morris Iemma, and Coalition Opposition leader, Peter Debnam, turned their attention...

Victoria: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... Climate matters dominated the Victorian political debate in the first half of 2007 as the recently re-elected Labor government under Premier Steve Bracks responded to a series of issues emanating from the seemingly endless drought. While the...

Queensland: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... Overview Labor began the period with renewed confidence despite looming headaches such as potentially falling short of completing major infrastructure projects (especially water), ministerial scandals resulting in criminal charges, and...

Western Australia: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... The first six months of 2007 were marked by the continuing political fallout from the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) inquiry into the so-called "Canal Rocks affair", which focussed on the surreptitious funding of candidates for the...

South Australia: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... Introduction The first half of 2007 was, with the exception of a change of Opposition leader and the annual budget, relatively uneventful. In part, this chronicle deals with the changing nature of the state's economic circumstances. The...

Tasmania: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... The Labor Government's annus horribilis of the previous year continued unabated in the first six months of 2007 but much of this was self-inflicted, seemingly by an exaggerated fear of the ghost of the 1989 Wesley Vale pulp mill controversy....

Northern Territory: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)
December 1, 2007... Introduction The first half of 2007 saw dramatic and far-reaching events in the Northern Territory. The Commonwealth intervention to take control of Aboriginal communities, which in effect, meant winding back self-government, was the most...

Australian capital Territory: January to June 2007.(Political Chronicles)(Chronology)
December 1, 2007... Introduction Four key issues are examined in the chronicles for the first half of 2007: the no-confidence motion in the Chief Minister, the emerging war over water, the second attempt at introducing same-sex union laws, and the scandal...