Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda (Australian History) - Tapa blanda

 
9781925495188: Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda (Australian History)
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ISBN 10: 1925495183 ISBN 13: 9781925495188
Editorial: Monash University Publishing, 2017

Sinopsis

The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australia’s history. This book brings to light aspects of Whitlam’s ambitious reform agenda that have been neglected for too long. The Australian Assistance Plan generated networks of regional and community cooperation that remain today. Plans for energy infrastructure and self-sufficiency that would ensure the use of the nation’s resources for the common good, appear more and more visionary. The ground-breaking Royal Commission into Human Relationships is clearly a forerunner of the current royal commissions into institutionalised child abuse and family violence. New research shows the extent to which this reforming agenda continued the post-war reconstruction plans of Curtin and Chifley. The personal dimension of this agenda – how Whitlam’s approach to policy design and implementation was influenced by his childhood in Canberra – is also detailed. Finally this book reassesses the place of the Whitlam government, and its dismissal, in history, in light of new material that continues to emerge from the personal papers of Sir John Kerr, and new analyses that challenge previous assessments.

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Jenny Hocking is the Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. She is the author of the very successful "Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography" (CUP, 1997).

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Monash University Publishing
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
1925495183
ISBN 13 
9781925495188
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Número de páginas
352
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