The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5The postwar period has seen radical changes in Australia. Increased dependence on the United States, an influx of European and Asian immigrants, and a series of economic booms and recessions have confronted Australians with the challenge of surviving as an offshoot of European civilization in a largely Asian region and securing a prosperous future with declining support from European markets and investment. This final volume in the Oxford History of Australia details this volatile period, showing that while some Australians have resisted the pressures for change, most have adapted resourcefully and intelligently to the task of creating a new nation able to survive into the 21st century. |
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Their slogan became ' Put the value back into the pound ' , though they did not
explain how this could be achieved at a time of full employment without
government intervention on a scale well beyond anything attempted by Chifley .
Instead ...
Their slogan became ' Put the value back into the pound ' , though they did not
explain how this could be achieved at a time of full employment without
government intervention on a scale well beyond anything attempted by Chifley .
Instead ...
Page 190
3 In a region with Australia ' s highest consumption of alcohol the capacity to
handle liquor became the hallmark of citizenship . All too gradually the legal
barriers came down . In 1959 , after twenty years of discussion , Aborigines
without ...
3 In a region with Australia ' s highest consumption of alcohol the capacity to
handle liquor became the hallmark of citizenship . All too gradually the legal
barriers came down . In 1959 , after twenty years of discussion , Aborigines
without ...
Page 266
Malcolm Fraser , a convinced believer in the multi - racial character of the British
Commonwealth in 1979 he played a crucial role in persuading Margaret
Thatcher to accept the arrangements by which Rhodesia became the African ...
Malcolm Fraser , a convinced believer in the multi - racial character of the British
Commonwealth in 1979 he played a crucial role in persuading Margaret
Thatcher to accept the arrangements by which Rhodesia became the African ...
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Contents
The People at War | 3 |
Pragmatism Ascendant | 59 |
Getting and Spending | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5 The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Editor | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 019554613X, 9780195546132 |
| Length | 334 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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