Tasman Relations: New Zealand and Australia, 1788-1988Keith Sinclair " ... At the invitation of the Australia-New Zealand Foundation and as a recognition of two hundred years of European settlement in Australia, the noted historian, Sir Keith Sinclair, has brought together a team of authorities from both sides of the Tasman. Experts in their fields, they present a lucid, perceptive and astonishingly coherent picture of 200 years of contact. Chapters range from a fascinating account of Maori perceptions of Australian settlement in the 1840s to a detailed study of recent trade relations between two countries, including the recent CER (Closer Economic Relations) free trade agreement. Among subjects covered are population, literary relations, defence, and religion. A hard hitting chapter compares the lives of woment in the two colonies, among the first countries in the world to give the vote to women. Intergovernmental relations ... are highlighted at different historical periods and on different matters of common concern.. Two personal impressions -- of a New Zealander in Australia and of an Australian in New Zealand -- show vividly and often amusingly the daily contrasts and contradictons experienced by those who cross the Tasman to live. Rounding off the volume is a penetrating overview by Geoffrey Blainey of relations between the two countries, identifying in some striking and unusual ways the resemblances and differences between them."--Inside front cover. |
Contents
Prefatory Note | 6 |
Tukis Universe Judith Binney | 15 |
the Australian Dimension | 34 |
Copyright | |
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