The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 1999

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 1999

White Agitation For An Aboriginal State In Australia (1925-1929).
June 1, 1999... This article evaluates proposals in the late 1920s for the creation of an Aboriginal State in either a part of the Northern Territory or South Australia. In the proposals for an Aboriginal State, Aborigines were to own their own land, live...

Australia's Battle against the Common Agricultural Policy: The Fraser Government's Trade Diplomacy and the European Community.(Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser)
June 1, 1999... The aim of this article is to offer a different interpretation of Fraser Government's diplomacy towards the European Community. In particular, it will be argued that, although Fraser's European policy was unsuccessful, this was not principally...

Drawing the Line: Sex Education and Homosexuality in South Australia, 1985.
June 1, 1999... This paper examines a specific controversy over the control and content of sex education in South Australia in 1985 that was triggered by concerns about homosexuality. Drawing on Foucault's idea of the "deployment of sexuality", the paper...

Public Opinion, Privatisation and the Electoral Politics of Telstra(*).
June 1, 1999... During the 1996 election campaign, the Liberal-National Party Coalition pledged that if elected it would partly privatise Telstra. The pledge was a central part of its campaign pitch. This paper argues that the proposal came at a time when the...

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 1998.
June 1, 1999... The period under review began with a bang--and a more protracted whimper that largely failed the domestic test of political audibility. Echoes from May's nuclear tests by India and Pakistan continued to reverberate through the halls of nuclear...

Commonwealth of Australia.(domestic politics in 1998)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 Against a backdrop of the Asian economic crisis and distractions from politics such as the Commonwealth games, football finals and the US Tennis Open, this period was dominated by the federal election. Speculation...

New South Wales.(1998 political developments)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 Redistribution The final boundaries for the new 93 seat Legislative Assembly were released on 10 July. There had been much speculation that the Government's reduction of the size of the Assembly was an attempt to...

Victoria.(1998 political developments in Australian state)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 The capacity for Victorian politics to confound was in full view during the second half of 1998. This period began with indications of a significant decline in public support for the Liberal-National coalition...

Queensland.(1998 political developments)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 The immediate outcome of the state election held on 13 June remained unclear for two weeks. Voters had rebuffed the Coalition government but not endorsed a Labor alternative. After a period of intense waiting and...

Western Australia.(1998 political developments)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 During the second half of 1998 the full implications became apparent of the historic 1996 State election when the Court-Cowan Coalition Government became the first ever non-Labor administration in Western Australia to...

South Australia.(1998 political developments)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 South Australian politics in the second half of 1998 seemed to be trapped on a treadmill. Despite much strenuous effort, the scenery changed little. More than a year after the October 1997 election which had seen a...

Tasmania.(1998 political developments)
June 1, 1999... June-December 1998 Introduction On 13 July 1998, the prospects for cooperative politics within a minority government framework being the "new politics" of the next millennium took a nose-dive in Tasmania when Premier Rundle called a...

Northern Territory.(1998 political developments in Australia)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 Two electoral contests dominated the period under review: the referendum on whether the Northern Territory ought to be a state and the fight for the Northern Territory's seats in the Commonwealth parliament. The...

Australian Capital Territory.(1998 political and economic developments)
June 1, 1999... July to December 1998 Considerable paradoxes and not a few "conflicts of interest" mark this period of ACT governance. From an economic point of view, the Capital Territory enjoyed a relatively positive outlook, after several quarters of...

Erratum.
June 1, 1999... Apology Tables published in the South Australian Political Chronicle July to December 1997 (Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 44, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 292-3) became garbled during the publication process. The correct tables...