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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... social security scheme and 70 per cent supporting government control over monopolies . Such findings influenced Robert Menzies , who soon after the 1943 elections replaced the aged W. M. Hughes as the head of the United Australia Party ...
... social security scheme and 70 per cent supporting government control over monopolies . Such findings influenced Robert Menzies , who soon after the 1943 elections replaced the aged W. M. Hughes as the head of the United Australia Party ...
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... social experiment , was the first state to discontinue the prosecution of adult , consenting homosexual acts , but the move only came in 1972 after a university lecturer had been murdered in an Adelaide park by a group of unidentified ...
... social experiment , was the first state to discontinue the prosecution of adult , consenting homosexual acts , but the move only came in 1972 after a university lecturer had been murdered in an Adelaide park by a group of unidentified ...
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... Social Issues in the 1980s , Occasional Papers No. 4 , Australian Studies Centre , University of Queensland , St Lucia , 1984 , pp . 17-55 ; K. A. W. Crook , ' Towards a Comprehensive Uranium Fuel Management Policy for Australia ...
... Social Issues in the 1980s , Occasional Papers No. 4 , Australian Studies Centre , University of Queensland , St Lucia , 1984 , pp . 17-55 ; K. A. W. Crook , ' Towards a Comprehensive Uranium Fuel Management Policy for Australia ...
Contents
The Brink of SelfDiscovery 19421951 | 1 |
Pragmatism Ascendant | 59 |
Getting and Spending | 89 |
Copyright | |
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