The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 1997

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 1997

Problems in Australian foreign policy: July-December, 1996.
June 22, 1997... During the last six months of 1996, the new Coalition Government faced some major foreign policy challenges. Australia's delicate relationship with China continued to deteriorate. Despite the announcement in July of closer military...

Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Lansdowne and British foreign policy 1901-1903: from collaboration to confrontation. (political history of Great Britain)
June 22, 1997... In the Cabinet reshuffle of November 1900 occasioned by Salisbury's ill health, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, the fifth Marquis of Lansdowne, was appointed Foreign Secretary. Five years earlier, Joseph Chamberlain, one of the most...

Australia and Vichy: the impact of divided France, 1940-1944. (international politics during World War II)
June 22, 1997... Histories of the Second World War from an Australian perspective have paid little attention to the Vichy regime which, following defeat by Germany and the armistice of June 1940, succeeded France's Third Republic. This lack of interest is...

An alternate course in Australian foreign policy: Korea 1943-1950.
June 22, 1997... Australia's role in Korea between the end of the Second World War and the outbreak of the Korean War has received little historical notice. The Official Historian of Australia's involvement in the Korean War, Robert O'Neill, has offered only...

New Zealand, Britain and the survival of the Ottawa agreement, 1945-77.
June 22, 1997... By successive increases of the preferential margins, New Zealand has completely shut out many imports of foreign goods... It is this action that has resulted in New Zealand having only one market. We have ourselves alone to blame. West...

The Whitlam labor government: Barnard and Whitlam: a significant historical dyad. (Australian political history)
June 22, 1997... Introduction On 8 February 1967 Gough Whitlam was elected Federal Labor leader with Lance Barnard as his deputy. It was the beginning of a remarkable partnership that was most aptly illustrated by the celebrated duumvirate, "the...

Living in an age of packages: 'economic rationalism' and 'the clever country' in Australian political thought.
June 22, 1997... Introduction It has been argued recently that such fundamental changes have occurred within Australian politics, culture and society during the past twenty years that it is possible to describe them as "the end of certainty" or "an age...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: Commonwealth. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... The Origins of One Nations On 22 September Prime Minister Howard told the State Council of the Queensland Liberal Party that the election of his government had released Australians from the grip of political correctness to "speak a...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: Australian Capital Territory. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... Territory Rights Commonwealth interference in ACT affairs became a major political question in the second half of 1996, when a member of Parliament, Kevin Andrews, declared that he would introduce a private member's bill to overturn...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: New South Wales. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... Introduction The last half of 1996 saw a continuing turn around in the fortunes of Premier Bob Carr. The headlines tell it all, from in March: "Labor Mates' warning to the Only Premier Left in the Party: Pull Your Socks Up, Bob" (Sun...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: Queensland. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... The Borbidge Government had limped into office without a majority in the Legislative Assembly and without a clear mandate. Enjoying equal numbers with Labor and relying on the uncertain vote of a conservative Independent, Liz Cunningham, the...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: South Australia. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... South Australia has a new Premier, John Olsen. Dean Brown, who had led the Liberal Party to such a remarkable election victory in December 1993 and who still enjoyed the massive parliamentary majority emanating from that victory, lost the...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: Western Australia. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... The six months under review were dominated by ongoing speculation about the likelihood of an early state election in the wake of the heavy ALP defeats in the federal and Victorian elections. As it eventuated, Premier Richard Court waited until...

Political Chronicle: July-December 1996: Northern Territory. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... Introduction Northern Territory politics received national attention during the period under review because of the final introduction of the world's first euthanasia legislation and arguments over Aboriginal native title. Other important...

Political chronicle: July-December 1996: Tasmania. (Australian politics)
June 22, 1997... The capacity of the Rundle-led minority Liberal Government to produce stable government in its first term was the focus of political interest in the lead-up to its first budget. In reality, it was the past rather than the present that...

Looking at Darwin's Past: Material Evidence of European Settlement in Tropical Australia.
June 22, 1997... The market for which this book is intended is not clear. Written by the Professor of History at the Northern Territory University and published by the Australian National University's North Australia Research Unit, and considering its...

The Europeans in Australia: A History , Volume One, the Beginning.
June 22, 1997... This is the first of three projected volumes on the European (or should it be British?) experience in Australia. Readers who are familiar with Atkinson's earlier work on Camden may recognise some of the ideas and the techniques behind this...

The Great Experiment: Labour Parties and Public Policy Transformation in Australia and New Zealand.
June 22, 1997... It is surprising that so few comparisons of Australian and New Zealand public policy processes have emerged to date. This book takes on an interesting period where in the 1980s Labor governments in both countries took on the challenge of...

Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature and Politics in Postwar Australia.
June 22, 1997... John McLaren has written a study of post-war Australian literature and culture by focusing on the little magazines of that period. In many ways this is an odd way to write cultural, literary and intellectual history as these magazines rarely...

The Mighty Bears: A Social History of North Sydney Rugby League.
June 22, 1997... This is an excellent social history of North Sydney Rugby League. Andrew Moore has set out to correct what he sees as two omissions in other histories written about the North Sydney area and community. These are the local history that ignores...

VOX RE/PUBLICAE: Feminism and the Republic.
June 22, 1997... Vox Reipublicae, a collection of fourteen essays, begins with the frequently-noted point that women support much less than men proposals for Australia to separate itself from the monarchy and establish in its place a republic with an...

Dialogues on Australia's Future: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald Henderson.
June 22, 1997... Dialogues on Australia's Future consists of twenty-five essays on Australia's economic policies and prospects, which were originally a series of seminars conducted in honour of the late Professor Ronald Henderson, whose life and work is...

Apprenticeship in England: 1600-1914.
June 22, 1997... This is not an easy book either to absorb or to analyse because the sheer weight of evidence and the occurrence of very frequent examples in the text incline the reader towards cerebral indigestion. Despite this immediate reaction, for those...

The Prison Diary: 16 May-22 November 1794, of John Horne Tooke.
June 22, 1997... Arguably no set of events in British history combine so conveniently the necessary ingredients of a successful modern-day screenplay adaptation than the vicissitudes of the so-called "English Jacobins" of the 1790s. We have scandal, romance,...

The Republican Crown: Lawyers and the Making of the State in Twentieth Century Britain.
June 22, 1997... This legal history by an LSE academic sets out to prove that the authority of the Crown has diminished and in its place there is a rise of litigation in public law. Protection under the Crown has been replaced by a constitutional framework...

Germany: A New Social and Economic History.
June 22, 1997... Scholars of modern German history have traditionally been well served by handbooks and surveys of economic and social history of the older German school. One thinks, for example, of the handbooks by Hermann Aubin and Wolfgang Zorn, the...

The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Lanscape.
June 22, 1997... This is an interesting and unusual book: interesting because it addresses many contemporary issues which cannot be understood in isolation from their past and unusual in that it addresses historical analysis of the city though streets,...

The Pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands.
June 22, 1997... The nations of the South Pacific are Australia's closest neighbours and yet most Australians know little about them except as tourist venues. It takes coups in Fiji or the threat of mercenaries being sent to Bougainville before our media...

Regional Security in the South Pacific: The Quarter-century 1970-95.
June 22, 1997... The nations of the South Pacific are Australia's closest neighbours and yet most Australians know little about them except as tourist venues. It takes coups in Fiji or the threat of mercenaries being sent to Bougainville before our media...

Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa.
June 22, 1997... The nations of the South Pacific are Australia's closest neighbours and yet most Australians know little about them except as tourist venues. It takes coups in Fiji or the threat of mercenaries being sent to Bougainville before our media...

Power by Design: Constitution-making in Nationalist China.
June 22, 1997... This clear and concise book will be of interest not only to China scholars but to students of comparative politics and those with a particular interest in constitutions. Zhao's work focuses on constitution-building within an authoritarian...

Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power.
June 22, 1997... This massive book, despite its title, does cover more than the pivotal year of 1945. Substantial background is provided on the situation in Indochina throughout the years of the Second World War in chapters on relations between the French and...

Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War.
June 22, 1997... On 7 August 1964, acting on news that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had attacked two American destroyers in international waters, the US Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, granting President Lyndon Johnson extensive powers to conduct...

Budhhist Kingdom, Marxist State: The Making of Modern Laos.
June 22, 1997... There has always been a severe shortage of historical, economic or scientific data relating to developments in the modem state of Laos. A few scholars including Martin Stuart-Fox, have been involved in the difficult task of unearthing and...

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79.
June 22, 1997... The sub-title of this long-anticipated book not only states clearly the major themes, but also the explanatory framework for Ben Kiernan's study of the four years the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. For Kieman "the race question and the struggle...

War and Television.
June 22, 1997... Bruce Cumings is the Professor of East Asian and International History at the University of Chicago. Between 1982 and 1990, Cumings, together with author Jon Halliday, worked on a Thames Television documentary entitled Korea: The Unknown War....

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order.
June 22, 1997... This book is an interesting addition to the series that Cambridge University Press initiated to encourage scholarly work on ideology and its relationship with religion. As stated in the preface, this is a subject surrounded by controversy in...

Cultures of Natural History.
June 22, 1997... This fascinating book stresses that our understanding of nature is time and culture bound; "the cultures of natural history have always been embedded in settings particular to time and place" (p. 457). It follows in meticulous detail changing...