- 188 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future. From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation',
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Table of contents
- Australia Under Construction
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Nation-building in Australia: a discourse, iconic project or tradition of resonance?
- 2. The unfinished business of nation-building
- 3. In the wake of economic reform … new prospects for nation-building?
- 4. The challenge of teaching Australian history
- 5. A passion for white elephants: some lessons from Australia’s experience of nation building
- 6. Populate, parch and panic: two centuries of dreaming about nation-building in inland Australia
- 7. Australia’s fiscal straitjacket
- 8. The ‘Building Better Cities’ program 1991-96: a nation-building initiative of the Commonwealth Government
- 9. Stumbling towards nation-building: impediments to progress
- 10. Broadbanding the nation: lessons from Canada or shortcomings in Australian federalism?
- 11. Re-imagining the Australian state: political structures and policy strategies