Add to ORKGThe closing years of the last century and most of those of the first decade of the twenty-first century will be remembered in the history of Australia as the time when the country lost its image of innocent carefreeness and wellbeing-an image that had seemingly always represented Australianness. This long-held identity was lost when the federal government of the period could have chosen to engage the country in a dialogue about ideas of difference, but decided instead to join the USA and the UK in a brutal war against what it labelled "the forces of darkness"
The modern incarnation of the nation-state is a relatively new socio-political arrangement, frequent...
Australia was colonised and developed by the British, and despite being on the opposite side of the ...
INSIDE STORY Abandoned in the 1960s, “forward defence” makes a disturbing reappearance in the ...
The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous a...
Australia is a nation whose relative isolation has produced conditions where the threat or act of te...
For millions of young Europeans, Australia is a land of dreams, with her vast and varied spaces, the...
Where does Australia fit in the story of the “long 1960s”? The nation entered the decade ruled by a ...
From the 1880s there has been speculation about Australia\u27s Asian futures. The contexts in which ...
Australia, last discovered land of the new worlds, had long been the object of old world desire. At ...
With the exception of sport, Australians don’t mind losing. Losing entire wars of course interrupts ...
The memory of the 102,000 Australians who died in wars over the past century plays a central role in...
Despite the deep horrors of the Aboriginal experience during the past 216 years, we continue to draw...
At the end of the nineteenth century white Australians found themselves in a turbulent and rapidly c...
Governments use fear to promote political objectives. Through the exaggeration of external threats, ...
My theme tonight is the recurrent idea that Australia could be expected to have an Asian future. Fro...
The modern incarnation of the nation-state is a relatively new socio-political arrangement, frequent...
Australia was colonised and developed by the British, and despite being on the opposite side of the ...
INSIDE STORY Abandoned in the 1960s, “forward defence” makes a disturbing reappearance in the ...
The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous a...
Australia is a nation whose relative isolation has produced conditions where the threat or act of te...
For millions of young Europeans, Australia is a land of dreams, with her vast and varied spaces, the...
Where does Australia fit in the story of the “long 1960s”? The nation entered the decade ruled by a ...
From the 1880s there has been speculation about Australia\u27s Asian futures. The contexts in which ...
Australia, last discovered land of the new worlds, had long been the object of old world desire. At ...
With the exception of sport, Australians don’t mind losing. Losing entire wars of course interrupts ...
The memory of the 102,000 Australians who died in wars over the past century plays a central role in...
Despite the deep horrors of the Aboriginal experience during the past 216 years, we continue to draw...
At the end of the nineteenth century white Australians found themselves in a turbulent and rapidly c...
Governments use fear to promote political objectives. Through the exaggeration of external threats, ...
My theme tonight is the recurrent idea that Australia could be expected to have an Asian future. Fro...
The modern incarnation of the nation-state is a relatively new socio-political arrangement, frequent...
Australia was colonised and developed by the British, and despite being on the opposite side of the ...
INSIDE STORY Abandoned in the 1960s, “forward defence” makes a disturbing reappearance in the ...