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1 online resource |
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Anthem studies in Australian politics, economics and society |
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Anthem studies in Australian politics, economics and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-24; Part I; Chapter 1 Prisons in the Pacific, 1788-1850; Chapter 2 The British Inheritance; Chapter 3 White Australia and the Golden Age; Chapter 4 Peace, Order and Good Government; Chapter 5 Indigenous Australia and the South Pacific; Chapter 6 Rural Settlers, the Irish and the Chinese; Chapter 7 Radicals and Rebels; Chapter 8 Communists and Their Allies; Chapter 9 The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation |
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Chapter 10 Refugees Before the un Convention and Enemy AliensChapter 11 Crime, Corruption and Terrorism; Chapter 12 The Multicultural Era; Chapter 13 Islam as the New Threat; Part II; Chapter 14 The Post-War Promise Ends; Chapter 15 Refugees and War; Chapter 16 The United Nations and Refugees; Chapter 17 Mandatory Detention; Chapter 18 'Stop the Boats'; Chapter 19 Finding a Decent Dumping Ground; Chapter 20 History as Tragedy And Farce; Chapter 21 Facing the 'Real World'; Chapter 22 Cohesion and Humanity; Chapter 23 From Nation-Building to Border Protection; Chapter 24 An Unstable World |
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End MatterChronology; References; Index |
| Summary |
"Australia is a unique society, created from immigration planned by the state and, for almost a century, organised and recruited through the governments of the British Empire. In the formative days it depended on convict labour from England and Ireland, whereas the United States depended on slave labour from Africa. In subsequent years most Australians were British subjects whereas this ceased to be so for Americans upon their independence. However in recent years this British character has progressively been abandoned with the admission of a wide from other societies. This has created a multicultural society, although one in which the English language remains dominant and British "values' remain praised at least by the conservative side of politics Australia is remote from Britain despite many transport links and investments. Its neighbours are Asians or Pacific Islanders, with only New Zealand as a much smaller British neighbour many miles away."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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| Subject |
Australia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783087679 |
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1783087676 |
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9781783087686 |
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1783087684 |
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