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{"title":"Australian Capital Territory January to June 2024","authors":"Chris Monnox","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 4","pages":"799-803"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Little History of the Australian Labor Party. By Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2024. pp. 304. $27.99 (pb)","authors":"Sean Scalmer","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 3","pages":"520-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"South Australia January to June 2024","authors":"Andrew Parkin","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first half of 2024 in South Australia marked the midway point in the current State election cycle. The Malinauskas government had been elected in March 2022, defeating the Liberal government headed by Premier Steven Marshall. Under the State's 4-year fixed-term electoral provisions, the next election will be held in March 2026.</p><p>In just two years, Peter Malinauskas has become the longest-serving current Australian Premier. While that is mainly a reflection on an extraordinary turnover in leadership elsewhere, it is also the case that the Malinauskas regime seems firmly entrenched in office. Events during the period under review reinforced an impression of a government enjoying solid electoral support while pursuing an ambitious policy agenda, alongside an Opposition struggling to define itself.</p><p>The March by-election in the inner metropolitan seat of Dunstan, triggered by the resignation of former Premier Marshall from Parliament, epitomised this political situation. For 116 years, no South Australian governing party had won an Opposition seat in a by-election. This was what Labor managed to achieve.</p><p>The seat of Dunstan had emerged from the 2022 election as the State's most marginal seat, with Marshall re-elected as the local member with just an 0.5% margin. The expectation was that the Liberals would retain the seat in the by-election. The demographics of the inner-eastern-suburbs seat seem to favour the Liberals, and they could also highlight the difficulty that the government was experiencing in delivering its most prominent 2022 election undertaking: the reduction of ambulance ramping outside of, and patient congestion within, public hospitals.</p><p>The by-election campaign was quite brutal in some respects. Labor disclosed that the Liberal candidate had, four years earlier, lodged an expression of interest for a position in the office of Labor's then Shadow Attorney-General Kyam Maher. Brushing aside criticism of the disclosure as a lamentable breach of an applicant's privacy, Labor claimed instead that it revealed her disdain for the Liberal government at that time. The major parties traded accusations that their respective candidates carried inappropriate associations arising from past family business matters.</p><p>The result was close but nonetheless swung the seat to Labor, increasing its numbers in the 47-member House of Assembly to 28. The Labor/Liberal two-party-preferred vote split ended up as 50.8/49.2, a swing of 1.4 percentage points from the March 2022 outcome. Both major parties lost ground (each by about 3%) in terms of first-preference votes, with the Greens picking up a 5.5% positive swing.</p><p>Premier Malinauskas was able to claim that the Dunstan result showed voters supported the government's “broad agenda to take the state forward” and were not focused on “one singular issue”—a clear allusion to the hospital ramping issue (<i>Advertiser</i>, 28 March 2024).</p><p>Geoff Brock, an Independent MP w","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 4","pages":"782-787"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142763945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tasmanian Politics January to June 2024","authors":"Dain Bolwell","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13022","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The political highlight of the period was the early state election. There were also three Legislative Council seats up for ballots in May, the continuing charges against a Supreme court judge, the ongoing football stadium controversy, as well as significant concerns for the economy and education, and the demise of an infamous bronze statue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tasmania retained the nation's only Liberal government following the snap state election held a year early on 23 March. Premier Jeremy Rockcliff called the poll following the defection of two former liberals to the cross-bench, which had plunged the government into a minority of eleven in the twenty-five-seat House of Assembly. Pointedly, out of the seven MHAs who had resigned since 2021, six were Liberals. Despite Rockcliff's call for a “strong majority Liberal government,” the election resulted in a continued minority Liberal government, with only fourteen seats in the expanded 35-seat parliament, which returned to its pre-1998 configuration of five 7-member electorates. Key reasons for the restoration of seats were the dearth of potential Cabinet members and high ministerial workloads in the smaller house.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Labor secured two seats in each electorate for a total of ten, leaving a diverse cross-bench of a record eleven that included five Greens, three from the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN), plus three left-leaning independents. The North–South chasm remained evident with most of the Liberals and all of the JLN members elected from the North, while most of the Greens and independents were elected from the South. It was especially notable that two Greens were elected in the Hobart seat of Clark, an unprecedented outcome in a single electorate. Sustainability-focused fisherman Craig Garland, who was the last elected in Braddon, was an exception as an independent standing against the ebbing Liberal tide in the North–West, while Cecily Rosol was atypical as a winning Green in Bass (TEC, 31 March). Ironically, the five Greens was the same number that had led the major parties to collude in reducing parliament to twenty-five seats in 1998 so as to raise quotas and deny opportunities for minor parties.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Issues prominent during the campaign included health, especially access to bulk-billing general practitioners and ambulance ramping at hospitals, as well as housing, and significantly, the Australian Football League (AFL) stadium planned for Hobart's Macquarie Point. The Liberals proposed to solve the ambulance ramping dilemma by simply forbidding it, which did have some subsequent success. The stadium was conspicuously less supported in the North and was opposed by Labor and the Greens, a disadvantage to the government according to Liberal strategist, Brad Stansfield (Mercury, 23 March). However, the idea of a Tasmanian AFL team did find broad support. Interestingly, the JLN representatives had run on a platform of “no policies” instead relying on a promise to closely scrutinise government proposals.","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 4","pages":"776-782"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By Marian Sawer and Maria Maley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).","authors":"Janine Hayward","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 3","pages":"523-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New South Wales January to June 2024","authors":"David Clune","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 4","pages":"787-792"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation. By Ross McMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023, pp. 626. $49.99 (paperback)","authors":"Carolyn Holbrook","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 1","pages":"176-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Art of Opposition. Edited by Scott Prasser and David Clune. Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, 2024, pp. 487. $69.95 (HB)","authors":"Richard Reid","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 1","pages":"174-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Women of the Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War Newsreels","authors":"Lisa J. Hackett","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A small, but revealing, set of Second World War newsreels exist that feature the pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). Newsreels are an important source of knowledge about the ideology of authorities in wartime Britain. The immense popularity of the cinema meant that newsreels became an important way for the government to communicate with the general public about the progress of the war and also to recruit them into war service. The war was labour intensive, and the government followed a number of initiatives to maximise combat personnel, most notably the widespread employment of women in supporting military roles. The ATA was established to provide a pool of pilots to undertake essential, but not combat, flying during the war. It was made up of pilots who were deemed unfit to serve in the Royal Air Force, a determination that allowed women, by dint of not being male, to join its ranks. The British government was keen to utilise women yet at the same time retain social norms that position employment outside the home as “man's work”. An examination of extant Second World War newsreels reveals that women pilots were initially positioned as a novelty, undertaking lighter, less serious duties than their male counterparts whilst dressed in feminine attire. As the war progressed this shifted rapidly to a recognition that the women were undertaking serious work on par with their male colleagues.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"209-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia","authors":"Matt McDonald,&nbsp;Susan Park,&nbsp;Kirsty Anantharajah,&nbsp;Anthony Burke,&nbsp;Danielle Celermajer,&nbsp;Megan C. Evans,&nbsp;Robyn Eckersley,&nbsp;Robyn Gulliver,&nbsp;Rebecca McNaught,&nbsp;Wesley Morgan,&nbsp;Melodie Ruwet,&nbsp;Jonathan Symons,&nbsp;David Schlosberg,&nbsp;Anselm Vogler","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is difficult to exaggerate the scale of contemporary ecological crises. These challenges, particularly climate change, necessitate new modes of politics and policy, even potentially new institutions, that seem anathema to the emphases of traditional accounts of environmental political science. In this paper, we explore contemporary ecopolitics research in Australia that is attempting to come to terms with the reality of ecological crises and the geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Showcasing a range of scholarship in this area, we argue that contemporary Australian ecopolitics research identifies and engages with a wide range of <i>sites</i> of politics and a significant number of (consequential) political <i>actors</i>. It recognises the need to engage directly with key institutions while also extending our gaze to the environment movement, community groups, financial institutions, local governments, and consumers. It acknowledges that sites of politics extend from the way ecological crises are framed in public debate to policy management, practices of private corporations and even to individual patterns of consumption. And it argues for an expansive conception of <i>ethics</i> beyond currently living human communities, a vision which arguably better meets the reality of ecological crises and the Anthropocene epoch.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 1","pages":"147-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}