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Making modern Australia : the Whitlam government's 21st century agenda /

'The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough Whitlam. The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hocking, Jenny (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2017.
Edition:[International version].
Series:Australian history
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter; Title page; Imprint page and copyright information; Epigram; Contents; About the contributors; Part I: Governing for the 21st century; 1. An inquiry into the whole human condition?; 2. Buying back the farm; 3. The regional and the local; 4. Reach of the imagination; 5. Gough Whitlam's 1974 re-election; Part II: From inspiration to implementation; 6. Gough Whitlam and the re-imagined citizen-subject of Australian social democracy; 7. Labor reconstructs; 8. Furnishing the prime ministerial mind.
  • 9. Whitlam's transformation of the prime ministerial office, its precursors and all that followed10. It's time; 11. E G Whitlam.