Australian Politics
The dismissal of the Whitlam government by the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975 was one of the most tumultuous and controversial episodes in Australian political history. The government had been elected on 2 December 1972 and returned at the May 1974 double dissolution, with Whitlam becoming the first Labor leader to achieve successive electoral victories.
... (read more)The Manner of Their Going: Prime ministerial exits in Australia by Norman Abjorensen
The Surprise Party: How the Coalition went from chaos to comeback by Aaron Patrick
Inside the Greens: The origins and future of the party, the people and the politics by Paddy Manning
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
‘Things that never were: Contradictions in the 2019 federal election' by Dennis Altman
In retrospect, the Morrison government’s win in May 2019 is not surprising. After the shift to the right in a number of liberal democracies since the election of Donald Trump, why did we assume that Australia would be immune? The assumption that Labor was certain to win resembled the attitude of most commentators towards Hillary Clinton ...
... (read more)Australia remains alone among the settler colonies for its lack of treaties with First Nations. This is despite the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have been calling for a treaty for decades – since at least the 1970s and then more forcefully during the Treaty ’88 Campaign ...
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