The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 1997

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 1997

Problems in Australian foreign policy: January-July 1997.
September 22, 1997... Introduction During the first six months of 1997, Australian foreign policy-makers faced three major challenges -- overcoming a crisis in Papua New Guinea which briefly threatened the survival of civilian government; building a durable...

Being practical in early and contemporary labor politics: a labourist critique. (Australia)
September 22, 1997... The thesis that the Labor Party's essential nature is "labourist" continues to dominate discussion of Labor politics. Put simply, it consists of two linked propositions: (1) That there is a continuity in the policy of Labor Governments, and that...

Social security, the "Money Power" and the Great Depression: the international dimension to Australian and New Zealand Labour in office.
September 22, 1997... It needs no gift of prophecy to say that the Act now being written in the statute-book of this Dominion is not only to be a Social Security Act, but is also to be the first Social Security Act, on any proper definition of that term, ever written...

Hysteria in the bush: Wagga Wagga and the "Anti-Communist Frenzy," 1945-60. (an Australia city in a rural area)
September 22, 1997... Like many Western nations, Australia was in the grip of an internal war against the "communist bogey" during the fifteen years from 1945. Countless Australians steadfastly believed that everything they held dear was threatened by the activities...

Ideology and union purpose: the Federated Clerks' Union in New South Wales, 1946-58. (Australia)
September 22, 1997... One of the defining characteristics of politics in Australia for about a decade after the end of World War II was the bitter conflict within the labour movement. This culminated in a series of public disputes in the Australian Labor Party (ALP)...

Ernest Constans and the struggle for power in the French Republic, 1892-93.
September 22, 1997... The career of French politician Ernest Constans during the early 1890s is well worth studying. Constans was at, or near, the peak of his power in these years. Moreover, these were significant years in the history of the French Third Republic. The...

Commonwealth: January-June 1997. (Australia)(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... A Lighted Wik In January National Party and deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher nominated native title as the single most important domestic issue on the coalition Government's agenda. This issue was to create considerable tension between...

Australian capital territory. (voluntary euthanasia legislation, Northern Territory)(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Commonwealth Influence Decisions of the Commonwealth Parliament and Government continued to dominate local politics in the first half of 1997. The euthanasia question was brought to a head. In September 1996, Kevin Andrews had tabled...

New South Wales: January-June 1997. (Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Mid-Term NSW now has a fixed four-year term, the next state election being due in March 1999. Mid-term thus assumes much more of the status of a finite turning point, a time when government and opposition reassess their record and strategy...

Victoria: July 1996-June 1997.(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Introduction In November 1996 the Premier, Jeff Kennett, introduced into Parliament one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting federal/state relations since the Second World War. The Commonwealth Powers (Industrial...

Queensland: January-June 1997.(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... At the start of the new year the Coalition Government and Labor Opposition in Queensland were determined to repair their political fortunes and return from the political dead. The previous tumultuous twelve months had taken their toll on both...

South Australia: January-June 1997. (Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... The period under review has seen the development of an increasingly volatile political climate in South Australia. The Liberal Party holds government comfortably with a 36-11 majority in the House of Assembly. The Opposition Labor Party requires...

Western Australia: January-June 1997.(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Although the Coalition Government was elected on 14 December 1996 with three extra Legislative Assembly seats it had lost its historic majority in the Legislative Council, effective from 22 May 1997, the day after the four-year fixed term of the...

Northern Territory: January-June 1997.(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Introduction The period under review included a variety of interesting political developments. Among them were a changing role for the Administrator of the Northern Territory, the continuing debate on euthanasia, arguments over Aboriginal...

Tasmania: January-June 1997.(Political Chronicles)
September 22, 1997... Approaches to regional development dominated the political scene during this period. A sense that Tasmania was losing touch with the mainland states, in terms of improved economic outlook, drove this debate. Tasmania has a very high level of...

Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation.
September 22, 1997... In his book, Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation,(1) the historian Omer Bartov has collected eight essays, some previously published, and has ordered them in three sections: "Images of War and the Emergence...

A History of the Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation.
September 22, 1997... By A. G. L. Shaw. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press at Miegunyah Press, 1996, pp. xvi + 334. Illustrated. One map. $49.95. The purpose of this study is to provide a much needed general history of pre-separation Victoria based on modern...

Northern Territory: Dictionary of Biography, volume 3.
September 22, 1997... Edited by David Carment and Helen J. Wilson. Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 1996, pp. xxi + 369. RRP $30.00. This third volume of Northern Territory biographies brings the series up to the last decade of the twentieth century....

The War Diaries of Eddie Allan Stanton.
September 22, 1997... By Hank Nelson. St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1996, pp. xviii + 374. Illustrated. Three maps. $29.95. Eddie Stanton had been a vaudeville magician and a ship's assistant purser before working for the Burns Philp shipping line at Port...

Hartnett: Portrait of a Technocratic Brigand.
September 22, 1997... By Joe Rich. Sydney: Turton & Armstrong, 1996, pp. vi + 184. Illustrated. $39-95. To the man-in-the-street "Hartnett" means (if anything at all) an unsuccessful Australian motor car. To the industrially-informed, Sir Laurence Hartnett may be...

Suspect History: Manning Clark and the Future of Australia's Past.
September 22, 1997... By Humphrey McQueen. Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, 1997, pp. 238, $16.95. This is a passionate and troubling book. McQueen has set himself the unenviable task of making sense of that incomprehensible outburst in the Brisbane Courier-Mail in...

The Mighty Wave: the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Daire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996, pp. 187, index, illustrations and maps, pb no local price given. The six-year period between 1995 and the year 2000 is a significant time for...

England and Scotland in the Age of Revolution: Planting the Green Bough.
September 22, 1997... By E. W. McFarland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994, pp. xii + 272. No price given. Dr McFarland, whose first book dealt with Orangeism in nineteenth century Scotland, extends this interchange with a new volume studying the impact...

Political Writings of the 1790s.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Gregory Claeys. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995, 8 vols: pp. lxiv + 386; 410, 446; 442; 413; 409, 412; 452, 495.00 [pounds sterling]. Historians have for a long time recognised and analysed the important influence which the French...

The Thunderbolt of Reason.
September 22, 1997... By Graham Bain. Elgin, Scotland: Graham Bain, 1996, pp. iii + 116. 7.00 [pounds sterling] This book, with its tantalising title, looks at the life and career of Robert Watson, a Scotsman born in unexceptional circumstances in 1746 and dying...

The Works of John Ruskin on CD-ROM.
September 22, 1997... Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. The library edition re-issued with an introduction by Michael Wheeler and a history of the library edition by James S. Dearden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, RRP $1,200. Many works...

France Abroad.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Robert Aldrich and Isabelle Merle. University Printing Service, University of Sydney, 1996, pp. vi + 168. No price given. Over the past twenty years the George Rude seminars have biennially brought together specialists in French...

Europe: Retrospects and Prospects.
September 22, 1997... Edited by John Perkins and Jurgen Tampke. Manly East: Southern Highlands Publishers, 1996, pp. 352. No price given. This important collection presents the proceedings of the 1995 Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European...

Propaganda and Censorship During Canada's Great War.
September 22, 1997... By Jeffrey A. Keshen. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1996, pp. 333 + xviii. No price given. This book is a revised PhD dissertation from York University, and although it displays much of the stylistic awkwardness often characteristic...

The People's Representatives: Electoral Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997, pp. vi + 265. $39.95. Democracy has increased greatly in the Asia-Pacific region in the last decade and more, and although there remain gaps and weaknesses in electoral...

Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy.
September 22, 1997... By Alan R. Kluver, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996, pp. viii + 172, notes, works cited index. No price given. This book reveals how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1978 has brought China close to the type of economic...

Ideology and Economic Reform Under Deng Xiaoping: 1978-1993.
September 22, 1997... By Wei-Wei Zhang. London and New York: Kegan Paid International, 1996, pp. xi + 251, bibliography, index. 55.00 [pounds sterling]/$93.50. In his introduction Dr Zhang makes a convincing case for the ongoing importance of ideology in post-Mao...

Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Tom Griffiths & Libby Robin. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997, pp. 248. No price given. This book represents a random collection of articles, looking "back at European expansion from the so-called colonized `peripheries', the...

Globalisation and Regional Communities: Geoeconomic, Sociocultural and Security Implications for Australia.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Donald H. McMillen. Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1997, pp. ii + 498. $35.00. Some of the contributors to this multi-disciplinary volume left me thinking that, despite the title, "globalisation" and "regional communities" are virtually...

Many Are Chosen: Divine Election and Western Nationalism.
September 22, 1997... Edited by William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994, pp. 306. No price given. This collection represents the proceedings of a conference held at the Harvard Divinity School in June 1991 on "Chosen People Themes...

Equity and Development Across Nations: Political and Fiscal Realities.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Christine Fletcher. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996, xii + 233 pp. $35.00. In both developed and developing nations today, reform of the public domain which encompasses social, political and economic sectors has assumed crucial...

Rulers and Ruled: An Introduction to Classical Political Theory from Plato to the Federalists.
September 22, 1997... By Irving M. Zeitlin. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1997. US$50/37.00 [pounds sterling]. Rulers and Ruled is a handy introduction to select political theorists, containing chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes,...