WEEK 11 TUTORIAL: The Economy is Everything

(24 May – )

Tutorial question

Does John Howard represent a new constituency or does he appeal to traditional Australian values?

Account for the ‘swing to the right’ towards the end of the twentieth century. How much did ‘economic rationalism’ affect Australian institutions? In what ways, if any, were older social and economic assumptions (about government intervention, egalitarianism, collective bargaining…) unsustainable? What did (does?) Pauline Hanson represent? What is the relationship between the ‘neo-cons’ social and economic agendas? Did Australia become a more conservative society? If so, when do you date the change? How and why? Who were the winners and the losers in social change in the 1980s and 90s? Is Australia more socially divided today than it has been in the past? Along what lines? Have Australians abandoned a belief in equality and ‘a fair go’? What has been the impact of globalisation? of economic rationalism? of multiculturalism? of postmodernism? of Keating’s ‘Big Picture’? of Howard’s ‘relaxed and comfortable’ policies? How did debates over the Bicentenary, the Republic, Reconciliation, ‘One Nation’ and refugees affected Australians’ understandings of themselves? What has been the role of the media in this? What social values have Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard expressed in their terms as prime minister?

Essential reading

Brett, Judith Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (Cambridge, 2003) ch. 9 and conclusion.
Pusey, Michael The Experience of Middle Australia: the Dark Side of Economic Reform (Cambridge, 2003) p.1 — 12, 21 — 25, 46 — 55.

Additional reading

Brett, Judith Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class CUP Melbourne 2003 ch 8
Peel, Mark Good Times, Hard Time Melbourne 1995 ch 8 and epilogue
Bolton Geoff The Middle Way Melbourne 1990 Ch 11
Manne, Robert ‘The Howard Years: a political interpretation’ in Robert Manne (ed)The Howard Years Melbourne 2004

Other

Bell, Stephen Ungoverning the Economy: The Political Economy of Australian Economic Policy Melbourne 1997
Blewett N A Cabinet Diary: A Personal Record of the First Keating Government Adel 1999
Bolton G The Middle Way Melbourne 1990 Ch 11
Castles S et al 'The Bicentenary & the failure of Australian nationalism' Race & Class 29/3 1988
Cope, Bill & Mary Kalantzis A place in the sun : re-creating the Australian way of life Sydney 2000
Curthoys, A & S Muecke 'Australia, for Example' in Hudson W and D. Carter (eds) The Republicanism Debate Kensington 1993.
Dixson M The Imaginary Australian: Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the present Syd 1999
Emy, Hugh Remaking Australia : the state, the market and Australia's future Sydney 1993
Finch, Lynette & Chris McConville (eds) Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban Sydney 1999
Headon, David, Joy Hooton and Donald Horne (eds) The Abundant Culture: Meaning and Significance in Everyday Australia Sydney 1994
Hudson, W and G Bolton (eds) Creating Australia: Changing Australian History Sydney 1997
Kelly, Paul Paradise divided : the changes, the challenges, the choices for Australia Sydney 2000
Lattas A 'Primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture' in B Attwood and J Arnold (eds) Power, Knowledge and Aborigines Melbourne 1992
Macintyre, Stuart & Anna Clark The history wars MUP Melbourne 2003
Mackay, H Reinventing Australia: The Mind and Mood of Australia in the 90s Sydney 1993
McQueen H Gone Tomorrow: Australia in the 1980s Sydney 1982
Melleuish, Greg The Packaging of Australia: Politics and Culture Wars Sydney 1998
Melleuish, Gregory The packaging of Australia : politics & culture wars Sydney 1998
Pusey, Michael Economic rationalism in Canberra : a nation-building state changes its mind Cambridge, 1991
Saulwick, I & Associates Saulwick Poll Reports 1990-91 Melbourne 1992
Saunders, Peter The ends and means of welfare : coping with economic and social change in Australia CUP, Melbourne 2002
Sheehan, Paul Among the barbarians : the dividing of Australia Sydney 1998.
Thompson, Elaine Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in Australia Sydney 1994
Turner, G Making it national : nationalism and Australian popular culture Sydney, 1994.
Turner, Graeme et al Fame games : the production of celebrity in Australia Cambridge, 2000
Wark, McKenzie The Virtual Republic: Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s Sydney 1997
Watson, Don ‘A Toast to the Postmodern Republic’ Island 55, Winter 1993
Wiseman, John Global Nation: Australia and the Politics of Globablisation Cambridge 1998

On politics since 1975:

Ayres, Philip Malcolm Fraser Melbourne 1987
Barnett, David with Pru Goward John Howard : Prime Minister Melbourne 1997.
Bean, Clive et al (eds) The Politics of Retribution: the 1996 federal election Sydney 1997
Beilharz, Peter Transforming Labor: Labour traditions and the Labor decade CUP Cambridge 1994
d'Alpuget B Robert J. Hawke Melbourne 1983
Edwards J Life Wasn't Meant to be Easy Sydney 1977
Ellis, Bob Goodbye Babylon : further journeys in time and politics Melbourne 2002
Hawke, Bob The Hawke Memoirs Melbourne 1994
Hinkson J 'Hawke and the new politics' Arena 64 1983
Hogan, Michael & Kathy Dempsey Equity and citizenship under Keating Sydney 1995
Horne, Donald Looking for leadership : Australia in the Howard years Penguin 2001
Johnson, Carol Governing change : from Keating to Howard UQP Brisbane 2000
Kelly, Paul The Age of Uncertainty Sydney 1994
Leach, Michael, Geoffrey Stokes & Ian Ward (eds) The rise and fall of One Nation UQP, Brisbane 2000
Little G 'Fraser and Fraserism' Meanjin 41 1982
Little G 'Hawke in place: evaluating narcissism' Meanjin 42 1983
Murphy, John ‘The Labors of Keating’ Arena 6, Aug-Sept 1993
Sawer M (ed) Australia and the New Right Sydney 1982
Scott, Andrew Running on Empty: the modern British and Australian Labor Parties Sydney 2000
Simms M A Liberal Nation: The Liberal Party and Australian Politics Sydney 1982
Vintila, Peter et al (eds) Markets, morals & manifestos : Fightback! & the politics of economic rationalism in the 1990s Perth 1992.
Watson, Don Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: a portrait of Paul Keating PM. Sydney 2002

On refugees and race:

Australian Historical Studies vol 33, no. 120, October 2002. Forum, ‘Going Overboard: Migration, Human Rights and Australian History’ articles by David Walker, Greg Watters, Alison Bashford and Klaus Neumann.
Bashford, A and Strange C. ‘Asylum-Seekers and National Histories of Detention’ Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 48, no. 2, 2002 pp 509 - 527
Burke, A. In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety Sydney 2001
Burke, Anthony In fear of security : Australia's invasion anxiety Sydney, 2001 ch 5, epilogue
Crock, M and Saul B. Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia Sydney 2002
Grant, Bligh (ed) Pauline Hanson : One Nation and Australian politics Armidale 1997
Gray, Geoffrey & Christine Winter (eds)The Resurgence of Racism: Howard, Hanson and the Race Debate Melbourne 1997
Hage, Ghassan White nation : fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society Sydney 1998
Kingston, Margo Off the rails : the Pauline Hanson trip Sydney 2001
Mares, Peter, Borderline: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, UNSW Press, Sydney
Markus, Andrew Race : John Howard and the remaking of Australia. Sydney 2001
Marr, D and M. Wilkinson Dark Victory Sydney 2003
McMaster, D. Asylum Seekers: Australia’s response to refugees Melbourne 2001 ch.6
McMaster, Don, ‘Asylum-seekers and the insecurity of a nation’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, v.56, no.2, July 2002 pp279-290
Saunders, Kay & Katie McConnel ‘"The Question of the Day": the maintenance of racial rhetoric in Queensland, Australia: William Lane and Pauline Hanson as racial ideologues’ Immigrants & Minorities [Great Britain] 2000 19(3): 45-66.
Scalmer, Sean ‘From Contestation to Autonomy: the staging and framing of anti-Hanson contention’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 2001 47(2): 209-224
Stratton, John Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis Sydney 1998
Walker, David Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850 — 1939 UQP Brisbane 1999

On nationalism and republicanism:

Alomes S A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian NationalismSydney 1988
Hirst JB 'The Importance of our British Heritage' Quadrant 36(7-8) July/ August 1992
James P 'The politics of the winged keel' Arena 65 1983
Lohrey A 'Components of the new patriotism' Island 7 1981
Manne R (ed) The New Conservatism in Australia Melbourne 1982
McKenna, Mark & Wayne Hudson (eds) Australian republicanism : a reader MUP, Melbourne 2003
McKenna, Mark The captive republic : a history of republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 CUP, Melbourne 1996
Turner, G Making it national : nationalism and Australian popular culture Sydney, 1994.