The End of Certainty: Power, Politics, and Business in AustraliaWritten by one of Australia's leading political commentators, this text covers Australian politics since the 1980s. This updated edition features a comprehensive section on the 1990 election and its aftermath. |
Contents
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The Liberal revolution | 95 |
The attack on Justice Higgins | 111 |
Beyond White Australiaa new identity | 124 |
A competitive economy | 386 |
The Elliott emergence | 399 |
Howardthe social agenda | 418 |
The Kirribilli pact | 434 |
Elliott denied | 457 |
The Peacock coup | 467 |
Towards the recession | 487 |
1990WHY LABOR | 507 |
The Tax Summit | 155 |
The Peacock surrender | 178 |
The banana republic | 196 |
The Howard leadership | 228 |
The New Right | 252 |
Consensus business and unions | 271 |
the false prophet | 291 |
The conservative crisis | 315 |
Hawke strikes | 329 |
HawkeLabors greatest winner | 342 |
BOOM AND BUST | 359 |
The 1980s boom | 361 |
The Liberals falter | 509 |
Green power | 524 |
The Labor revival | 544 |
The 1990 campaign | 565 |
Why Labor won | 585 |
EPILOGUE INTO THE 1990s | 595 |
Hewsonthe freemarket purist | 597 |
The Keating coup | 615 |
The end of certainty | 660 |
Endnotes | 687 |
Index | 707 |
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Popular passages
Page 10 - Australian democracy has come to look upon the State as a vast public utility, whose duty it is to provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Page 8 - ... light, clothes, boots, furniture, utensils, rates, life insurance, savings, accident or benefit societies, loss of employment, union pay, books and newspapers, tram or train fares, sewing machine, mangle, school requisites, amusements and holidays, liquors, tobacco, sickness or death, religion or charity, I could not certify that any wages less than 42s.
Page 245 - ... masses. It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.
Page 196 - Government can't get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third-rate economy.
Page 203 - I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Page 3 - The unity of Australia is nothing, if that does not imply a united race. A united race means not only that its members can intermix, intermarry and associate without degradation on either side, but implies one inspired by the same ideas, and an aspiration towards the same ideals, of a people possessing the same general cast of character, tone of thought — the same constitutional training and traditions...
Page 10 - To the Australian, the State means collective power at the service of individualistic 'rights.' Therefore he sees no opposition between his individualism and his reliance upon Government.
Page xix - Aborigines illustrates the first stages of the conflagration of oppression and conflict which was, over the following century, to spread across the continent to dispossess, degrade and devastate the Aboriginal peoples and leave a national legacy of unutterable shame.
Page 9 - I face the possibilities of this mine remaining closed, with all its grave consequences; but the fate of Australia is not dependent on the fate of any one mine, or of any one company ; if it is a calamity that this historic mine should close down, it would be a still greater calamity that men should be underfed or degraded.