The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 2005

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 2005

1902 and the origins of preferential electoral systems in Australia *.
June 1, 2005... Australia is the birthplace of the two main forms of preferential electoral systems, the Alternative Vote (AV) and the Single Transferable Vote (STV). Versions of these systems had already been used in two of the Australian colonies in the late...

White Australia, settler nationalism and aboriginal assimilation *.
June 1, 2005... In the present context of debate about Aboriginal policy, including the mounting conservative critique of the whole direction of that policy since the early 1970s, (1) it is worthwhile reflecting upon the intentions behind, and the meaning of,...

Paul D. Cravath, the First World War, and the Anglophile internationalist tradition.
June 1, 2005... In most respects the First World War had far less profound an impact on the United States than upon the nations of Europe. The experience of war was, however, central to the emergence of an internationalist American foreign policy elite,...

Fair weather friend? Ethics and Australia's approach to global climate change.
June 1, 2005... In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force. This development, some thirteen years after the UNFCCC was established and seventeen years after states began to meet...

The exoteric politics of bank mergers in Australia.(analysis)
June 1, 2005... Introduction Governmental financial system inquiries in Australia are significant because of past reforms which resulted from their recommendations. (1) One of the first acts of the Treasurer of the Howard Coalition government, Peter...

Issues in Australian foreign policy: July to December 2004.
June 1, 2005... Introduction The issue of bipartisanship in Australian foreign policy is an enduring element of foreign policy analysis in Australia. Ungerer begins the previous review with the question: "Is Australian foreign policy still bipartisan?"...

Commonwealth of Australia: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... A Gnawing Start to the Federal Election After months of speculation, the Prime Minister John Howard on 29 August advised the Governor-General to call the election--setting 9 October as the date for the poll and commencing a long six-week...

New South Wales: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... The second half of 2004 was a period that the Carr Government would probably prefer to forget. While the crises of the previous six months may have been hard to manage, they were nothing compared to the scandals that rocked the government in...

Victoria: July to December 2004.(politics in highways construction)
June 1, 2005... Victoria is in the middle of its electoral cycle, and the state's politics during the second half of 2004 had all the classic characteristics of mid-term inertia: few real scandals (save for a bit of drunk driving by, quixotically enough,...

Queensland: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... Overview The latter half of 2004 saw Premier Peter Beattie's most taxing months in office to date. Amid other troubles, two spectres from year's beginning returned to haunt the government. The first saw earlier dilemmas over electricity...

Western Australia: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... As the thirty-sixth parliament completed its sittings in December 2004, the publication of two opinion polls indicated that the Australian Labor Party (ALP) would face an uphill battle to be re-elected on the 2003 re-distributed boundaries....

South Australia: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... South Australia's Strange Coalition Government The oddness of South Australia's Rann Coalition government is not widely appreciated. It is now a coalition between the Labor Party (which has twenty-two members in a House of Assembly of...

Tasmania: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)(Richard Butler; elections news)
June 1, 2005... Two events dominated the media and public discussion in Tasmania during the second half of 2004. The resignation of the Governor, Richard Butler, in August and his subsequent compensation payout provided a political soap opera that enthralled...

Northern Territory: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... Introduction The period under review was in some respects a difficult one for both Clare Martin's Labor government and the opposition Country Liberal Party (CLP). Issues that emerged included the problems of senior Labor figure Bob...

Australian Capital Territory: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2005... Overview During the second half of 2004 Canberrans went to the polls and delivered the first majority government in the history of self-government in the Australian Capital Territory. The Stanhope Labor government was returned with a...