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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... favoured independents or mushroom minor parties . Communist candidates received 2 per cent of the vote ; they would ... favour . The government would have to make do with the means at its disposal . In December 1942 the Department of ...
... favoured independents or mushroom minor parties . Communist candidates received 2 per cent of the vote ; they would ... favour . The government would have to make do with the means at its disposal . In December 1942 the Department of ...
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... favoured the redistribution of land from Japanese absentee owners to the peasantry , the Australians went considerably ... favour with the free - enterprise Americans . Frustrated by MacArthur , Ball resigned in September 1947. He felt ...
... favoured the redistribution of land from Japanese absentee owners to the peasantry , the Australians went considerably ... favour with the free - enterprise Americans . Frustrated by MacArthur , Ball resigned in September 1947. He felt ...
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... favour of incongruous replicas of the brick - and - tiled smartness of modern suburbia . Rural Australia was yielding to suburban Australia . Few Australian intellectuals of that generation gave suburbia a good name . Patrick White ...
... favour of incongruous replicas of the brick - and - tiled smartness of modern suburbia . Rural Australia was yielding to suburban Australia . Few Australian intellectuals of that generation gave suburbia a good name . Patrick White ...
Contents
The Brink of SelfDiscovery 19421951 | 1 |
The High Summer of Robert Menzies 19511965 | 87 |
The Search for New Directions 19661975 | 163 |
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