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HEAD OF STATE
The Governor-General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal
by David Smith
On the thirtieth anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, the man who read the proclamation dissolving parliament, Sir David Smith, makes a powerful case about the Australian Constitution. Our founding fathers made the Governor-General, not the Queen, our head of state.
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The (strange, recent but understandable) triumph of liberalism in Australia
by Bob Catley
The Australian nation began as one of the world's first social democracies. Today its political axis has shifted to make it one of the world's leading liberal countries, enjoying unparalleled prosperity. This book tells how, when and why this happened.
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The White Australia Policy
Race and shame in the Australian history wars
by Keith Windschuttle
Many historians today argue that its immigration policy was once so shamefully racist that Australia was in danger of becoming an international pariah, like South Africa under apartheid.
This book shows these claims are so exaggerated they lack all credibility. Australia is not, and never has been, the racist country its academic historians have condemned.
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The Multicultural Experiment
edited by Leonie Kramer Does Australia need more immigrants or have we reached the limits of social, political and environmental tolerance?
Should immigrants and refugees adopt the customs and traditions of the host country or create cultural enclaves within it?
Does multiculturalism threaten national identity and is this desirable or not?
Has our experiment with multiculturalism been a success and should it continue?
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Exasperating Calculators
The rage over economic rationalism and the campaign against Australian economists
by William Coleman and Alf Hagger
In the past decade, Australian politics has been haunted by two words: Economic Rationalism. They were burnt into the Australian mind in a fire that is still well alight. Exasperating Calculators is a withering new critique of this conflagration.
The authors argue that the alarm over Economic Rationalism was a case of a ‘moral panic': a group of persons were identified as a threat to society, and the ‘moral barricades' were then manned by editors, bishops, politicians and right thinking people in an attempt to denounce and root out those purportedly engaged in undermining society as we know it.
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