Search Results - "Australian Journal of Politics & History"

“Symbolism, Separatism, and Perpetual Guilt”: Politicians Debating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1987–1990 by Holland, Alison

“…In the last quarter of the twentieth century, Aboriginal Affairs was a volatile portfolio. Gough Whitlam signalled a reorientation of policy with…”
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Australian Foreign Policy Stability and Instability: Imperial Friendships and Crises from the Great Depression to the Fall of Singapore by Widmaier, Wesley W.

“…Over the past century, crises have enabled the construction of Australian foreign policy orders, or sets of ideas that reduce uncertainty and stabilise…”
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The Kerguelen Archipelago and Australian Security Anxieties by Lee, Alexander Mitchell

“…The Kerguelen archipelago in the Southern Indian Ocean was never militarised and never posed a realistic naval threat to Australia or the British Empire during…”
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Can Law Manufacture a Party System? The Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Experience with Party‐Strengthening Legislation by Fraenkel, Jon

“…Two western Pacific states — the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG) — experimented with unusual and ambitious reforms aimed at strengthening political…”
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The Coup Capital of the Democratic World? Voters and Prime Ministerial Change in Australia by Cameron, Sarah, McAllister, Ian

“…Between 2010 and 2018, Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties, giving the country the title “the coup capital of the…”
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All Containment and No Engagement: Australia's Contemporary Policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by Butcher, Jack D.

“…Australia's interactions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), henceforth known as North Korea, have ebbed and flowed throughout their…”
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Cutting the Gordian Knot: Reassessing Australia's Lend‐Lease Settlement1 by Clayton, Mark

“…During the Second World War, Australia received almost $2 billion worth of Lend‐Lease aid from the United States — the largest foreign debt ever incurred by…”
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Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years by Markus, Andrew, Rutland, Suzanne D.

“…Recent studies of immigration have questioned assumptions about the effectiveness of government controls. In her work on illegal Jewish immigration to the…”
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Vladimir Petrov: A Reappraisal by Deery, Phillip

“…During the Cold War, defectors from the Russian Intelligence Services to the West were of critical importance. They exposed and neutralised hundreds of Soviet…”
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The Debate Over the Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians: National Unity and Memories of the 1967 Referendum by Goot, Murray, Rowse, Tim

“…In the debate over constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians since 2010, the high “Yes” vote in 1967 has been recalled as a benchmark of national…”
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Seachange Migration, Outer Metropolitan Suburbanisation, and Marginality: The Electoral Politics of the Central Coast of New South Wales, 1949–2001 by Beer, Chris

“…Seachanging and the expansion of suburbia led to important changes in Australia's human geography during the second half of the twentieth century. However, the…”
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Australia in the International Sphere 1901–1914: An Emerging Foreign Policy Capacity? by Cotton, James

“…Although the early Federation has been characterised as a “dependency,” some items in the existing literature suggest the exertion by the Commonwealth of a…”
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Victoria July to December 2023 by Ghazarian, Zareh

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Double Disillusion: Legal and Political Aspects of the 1974 Double Dissolution by Harvey, Matt

“…One of the great unanswered questions of the Commonwealth Constitution is whether the House of Representatives and Senate are equal or whether one ultimately…”
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Men and Women of Australia: Administering Whitlam's Re‐Imagined Subject by Rundle, Kristen

“…This contribution examines and reflects on a less‐studied area of life during the Whitlam era: the machinery through which the government's expansion of…”
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Aboriginal Self‐determination, Land Rights, and Recognition in the Whitlam Era: Laying Groundwork for Power Sharing and Representation by Perche, Diana

“…The Whitlam Labor government (1972–75) is remembered for ushering in a new era in Indigenous affairs, with the move to “self‐determination”, abandoning the…”
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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government by Hocking, Jenny

“…Gough Whitlam was deeply committed to the preservation of history, and keenly attuned to the importance of the documentary record in the writing of it. For…”
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Tasmania July to December 2023 by Bolwell, Dain

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South Australia July to December 2023 by Sunman, Josh

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Whitlam's Economic (Inter)Nationalism by Huf, Ben

“…By his own admission, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was not much of an economist, a disclosure that has fuelled criticisms of his government's…”
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