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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... wartime peak , women constituted a little less than 30 per cent of the workforce . This was the same figure as in the Depression year of 1932-33 , when men were not serving in the armed forces but were unemployed . The figure was not to ...
... wartime peak , women constituted a little less than 30 per cent of the workforce . This was the same figure as in the Depression year of 1932-33 , when men were not serving in the armed forces but were unemployed . The figure was not to ...
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... wartime failures he was underrated . In its first two years the Liberal Party made few gains . At the end of 1945 , when John Cain senior formed a Labor government in Victoria , the only state in Australia with a Liberal ministry was ...
... wartime failures he was underrated . In its first two years the Liberal Party made few gains . At the end of 1945 , when John Cain senior formed a Labor government in Victoria , the only state in Australia with a Liberal ministry was ...
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... wartime isolation as an inspiration for local endeavour . The Australia - wide tour of the Ballet Rambert in 1947 was followed a year later by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Richard III and The School for Scandal . Travelling ...
... wartime isolation as an inspiration for local endeavour . The Australia - wide tour of the Ballet Rambert in 1947 was followed a year later by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Richard III and The School for Scandal . Travelling ...
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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