The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 2008

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 2008

"Cocksparrow diplomacy": Percy Spender, the Colombo Plan and Commonwealth relations.
June 1, 2008... Introduction The Colombo Plan occupies a very prominent place in post-Second World War Australian history and it is not surprising that a substantial part of the literature on the subject is by Australian scholars. Daniel Oakman's book,...

"We have wines of all kinds: red, white, and green": romanian reactions to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 *.
June 1, 2008... According to a prank advertisement in Hungarian allegedly found on a bulletin board at Babe-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Koloszvar), the ancient capital of Transylvania, a certain Mrs. "Farkas" ("wolf" in Hungarian) requested a tutor for...

Australian reporting of the Indonesian killings of 1965-66: the media as the "first rough draft of history".
June 1, 2008... Introduction The history of mass killings and genocide spans many centuries. But the twentieth century was, as Michael Walliman states, "an age of politically sanctioned mass murder, of collective premeditated death intended to serve the...

Individual ministerial responsibility during the Howard years: 1996-2007.
June 1, 2008... Individual Ministerial Responsibility and the Howard Government's Guide When the Australian colonies inherited the Westminster system of responsible government, the principle of ministerial responsibility became part of Australian...

Moving the genocide debate beyond the History Wars *.
June 1, 2008... Introduction The predictable polarisation of the "History Wars" has framed the scholarly and public discussion of genocide in Australian history. On the one hand, conservatives such as the former Prime Minister John Howard and writer Keith...

Issues in Australian foreign policy: July to December 2007.(Company overview)
June 1, 2008... The final six months of 2007 were eventful ones in both Australian domestic politics and foreign policy. Inevitably in an election year foreign policy became intertwined with the contest for political power in Canberra. While some observers...

Commonwealth of Australia: July to December 2007.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2008... The Stage, the Players and their Exits and Entrances [...] All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; [William Shakespeare, As You Like It] In the...

New South Wales.
June 1, 2008... By July 2007, the glow of Labor's March election victory had dimmed. Prior to the election, the New South Wales Premier, Morris Iemma, had tempted fate by stating that if there was another Sydney rail breakdown "we will deserve the condemnation...

Victoria: July to December 2007.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2008... A car accident involving twenty-year-old Nicholas Bracks, the son of the then Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, was to be the catalyst for a major change in Victorian politics. Young Nick Bracks had come back to the family home in Williamstown...

Queensland: July to December 2007.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2008... Overview The second half of 2007 saw many earlier patterns repeated: a squabbling Liberal-National Coalition Opposition directionless and changing leaders yet again in the face of a commanding Labor government; public policy problems in...

Western Australia: July to December 2007.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2008... Western Australians will remember the second half of 2007 as a period characterised by sustained economic growth, the opening of the new southern rail project, and continuing revelations from the ongoing investigation into public officers with...

South Australia: July to December 2007.
June 1, 2008... South Australian Premier Mike Rann described 2007 as a "difficult year" characterised by "tough decisions" and indeed by "unpopular decisions" (Advertiser, 1 January 2008). The period under review, from July when awkward water management...

Tasmania: July to December 2007.
June 1, 2008... Two local issues and one national concern dominated the Tasmanian media for the period from July 2007 through December 2007. The overriding state issue was the Gunns Corporation's proposed kraft pulp mill for construction in the Tamar Valley in...

Northern Territory: July to December 2007.(Political Chronicles)
June 1, 2008... Introduction The second half of 2007 consolidated the effects of the federal intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and by the end of the year would indirectly usher in a new federal Labor government and...

Australian capital territory: July to December 2007.
June 1, 2008... Introduction With ongoing attention to planning, an acute housing crisis, contracting blunders, a failed attempt to save a local timber mill, money to rescue caged chickens, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope's continued animosity towards Prime...