The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2005

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2005

Introduction.(a Liberal tradition in Australian foreign policy)
September 1, 2005... Is there a Liberal tradition in Australian foreign policy? Or, if we lower the bar somewhat in relation to consistency and ideology, is there something of a Liberal inclination or style? Four years ago, at a conference in Melbourne sponsored by...

Liberals and Australian foreign policy *.(Liberal foreign policy conference paper, 2001)(Transcript)
September 1, 2005... I have been asked to speak about Liberal Party foreign policy over fifty years. Let me first try and set the scene. In the beginning, Australia was very much a child of Empire. In the First World War, when Britain went to war, we also went...

Empire, region, world: the international context of Australian foreign policy since 1939.
September 1, 2005... In 1891 Rudyard Kipling, the British bard of empire, visited Melbourne. He found the locals very parochial in their outlook. When A.B. "Banjo" Paterson, the Australian poet and war correspondent, met Kipling in England a decade later, the...

Frederic Eggleston on international relations and Australia's role in the world.
September 1, 2005... Frederic Eggleston was one of Australia's few notable public intellectuals. Macmahon Ball, writing at the time of Eggleston's death in 1954, declared that he was "the most independent and important thinker about politics and society that we...

Appeasement and after: towards a re-assessment of the Lyons and Menzies Governments' defence and foreign policies, 1931-41.
September 1, 2005... If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle? 1 Corinthians, 14:8 Appeasement--meeting the demands of aggressors in the hope that they will be satisfied--has always been a legitimate instrument of diplomacy....

Casey: four decades in the making of Australian foreign policy.
September 1, 2005... Richard Casey enjoyed remarkable longevity in the making of Australian foreign policy. From the 1920s to the dawn of the 1960s, Casey was involved, with one or two breaks, and at one level or another, in shaping Australian foreign policy. With...

Brave new Liberal: Percy Spender.
September 1, 2005... The period from the mid-1940s to the December 1949 election, when Labor's reign was ended by the Liberal/Country Party coalition, is still best remembered as the height of the Chifley Government's state interventionism. The pinnacle, quickly...

The price of nostalgia: Menzies, the "Liberal" tradition and Australian foreign policy.(Robert Menzies)
September 1, 2005... Perhaps, if I reach a ripe age, I will be a curio because I once lived a few week-ends in great country houses of England. (1) (Robert Menzies, Diary, 20 April 1941) It is a feature of Menzies' long rule that little of what he does seems...

The limits of discretion: the role of the Liberal Party in the dismantling of the white Australia policy (1).
September 1, 2005... Which political party ended the White Australia policy? According to Gough Whitlam his government abolished it in 1973 when it "removed the last remaining pieces of legislation which could be described as discriminatory on racial grounds". (2)...

The Liberals and Vietnam (1).
September 1, 2005... The election of a Liberal-Country party coalition government in December 1949 brought about a distinct shift in Australian foreign policy. The Labor Governments of the 1940s had stressed the independence of Australian foreign policy from the...

Way behind in following the USA over China: the lack of any Liberal tradition in Australian foreign policy, 1970-72.
September 1, 2005... Introduction: the Liberal Party, China, the USA and Secret Diplomacy If there is one idea that might be supposed to form the core premise of any Liberal tradition in Australian foreign policy, it is surely deference to the most powerful...

The Liberals as managers of the Australian-American alliance.
September 1, 2005... The early years of the twenty-first century have seen major developments in the history of the Australian-American alliance, not least in the relationship between the Liberal Party and the alliance. (1) The fiftieth anniversary of the signing...

Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition.(foreign policy realism )
September 1, 2005... The incoming Howard Government of 1996 was the first post-Cold War Liberal government, but it came to office long after the party was over for "new world order", after almost a decade of post-Cold War international politics. Liberal government...

Australian liberalism, past and present.(The Ethical State?: Social Liberalism in Australia)(What's Wrong with the Liberal Party?)(The Howard Years)(Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class, from Alfred Deakin to John Howard)(Liberal Women, Federation to 1949)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia. By Marian Sawer (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003); 224 pp.; ISBN 0 522 85082 0 (pbk); A$29.95. What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? By Greg Barns (Cambridge: Cambridge...