The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 2002

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 2002

ANZUS--alive and well after fifty years.
June 1, 2002... A half century after its founding, the ANZUS alliance is an integral part of Australia's political landscape and a key component of US global strategy. Constituted by Australia, New Zealand and the United States during the signing of the...

Imagining aboriginal nations: early nineteenth century Evangelicals on the Australian frontier and the "nation" concept (1).
June 1, 2002... Did the Europeans who had early contact with the indigenous people of Australia, and who also had an intimate knowledge of their culture and organisation, view them as nations? Norman Tindale, a distinguished Australian anthropologist whose...

Economic or political development: the evolution of "native" local government policy in the territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1945-1963.
June 1, 2002... Historian Allan Healy has described the evolution of "native" local government policy in post-World War II Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) as the "antithesis of that in the contemporary British colonies". Apotheosising the British system of...

Norfolk Island and its tax haven.
June 1, 2002... The first Pacific Islands offshore financial centre was born in 1966 on Norfolk Island, a unique external territory of Australia with a peculiar form of self-government. (1) Promoters of Norfolk Island's tax haven (2) have seen its potential to...

Issues in Australian foreign policy.
June 1, 2002... The second half of 2001 will be remembered as one of the more eventful and significant periods in recent Australian foreign policy. Two issues--immigration policy and the terrorist attack on the United States--dominated the period under review...

Commonwealth of Australia: July to December 2001. (Political Chronicles).
June 1, 2002... The six-month period from July to December 2001 was an extraordinary phase in Australia's political history. Until 26 August, when 460 asylum seekers were rescued from their sinking vessel off the Western Australian coast, there was nothing to...

New South Wales: July to December 2001. (Political Chronicles).
June 1, 2002... Cabramatta Policing The issues of crime and policing dominated New South Wales politics in the final six months of 2001. The Legislative Council's General Purpose Standing Committee Number Three decided in June 2000 to conduct an inquiry...

Victoria: July to December 2001. (Political Chronicles).
June 1, 2002... Since its election to government in 1999, the Steve Bracks-led Victorian Labor government has enjoyed high levels of public support in the opinion polls. This has been due partly to the fact that the government does not have the parliamentary...

Queensland: July to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... A One Party State? By late 2001 the Beattie Labor government was administering Queensland in cruise-control. With a forty-three seat majority in Parliament, a relatively strong ministry and a weak and ineffective opposition, the government...

Western Australia: July 2001 to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... There was much controversy in Western Australian politics during the period in which the world was shaken by the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States. Major electoral law changes, together with legislation intended to remove...

South Australia: July to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... The period July to December 2001 was anything but "business as usual" in terms of the political landscape of South Australia. It was a period characterised by a high degree of flux, fluidity, and surprises. Regular observers of the South...

Tasmania: July to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... The building tensions over the certainty of a State election in 2002 provided both the backdrop and catalyst for most of the events chronicled in the political life of Tasmania during the second half of 2001 although, in fact, events elsewhere...

Northern Territory: July to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... Introduction The period under review was dominated by what many observers saw as the Northern Territory's most important election since the attainment of self-government in 1974. Held on 18 August, it was the first to be won by the...

Australian Capital Territory: July to December 2001.
June 1, 2002... Legislative Assembly Election 20 October 2001 Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly are elected for a fixed term. Elections are held every three years, with the election for the Fifth Assembly held in October 2001. For Legislative...