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{"title":"Tasmania January to June 2023","authors":"Michael Lester, Dain Bolwell","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12956","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajph.12956","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The foundations of Tasmanian politics were shaken in the first half of 2023 by the slide of the Rockliff Liberal government into minority. Two Liberal backbenchers defected to the crossbench in May. This was ostensibly due to the row over the proposal to build a $715 million AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront but was underpinned by wider concern at the government's lack of transparency on a range of issues. With the Tasmanian Liberals having won three elections in a row since 2014 on a platform of ‘stable majority government’, their collapse into minority raised questions about the stability of new arrangements negotiated with the two rebel Liberals. The government lost control of the lower house on several occasions during the budget debate and on key policy issues, especially including the ongoing controversy over the proposed Marinus electricity and data link with the mainland. The unexpected defection also focused attention on the preparedness of Labor and the Greens to contest an early election should one eventuate.</p><p>The Rockliff government was thrown into minority in mid-May by the shock resignation from the party of two of its northern-based MPs – member for Bass Lara Alexander and member for Lyons John Tucker – to sit as Independents. The defection left the Liberal government with 11 members in the twenty-five-member House of Assembly while the Labor opposition had eight seats and there were six crossbench members, including two Greens, one Labor Independent, and an increased number of other Independents to three.</p><p>In announcing their defection, both MPs cited concerns about future debt surrounding Hobart's $715 million Macquarie Point stadium, with Alexander also taking issue with the lack of transparency of government decision making – an issue pursued in parliament for several months by Labor and the Greens. Both Alexander and Tucker said they had individually raised concerns about the AFL stadium with the Premier last year, but nothing had been done. Additionally, Tucker aired grievances against the Marinus link and said that he had been overlooked for a ministry in the last cabinet reshuffle. Meanwhile, political commentators noted the broader schism within the Tasmanian Liberal party between moderates and conservatives over the direction of the party, noting Alexander's concerns with the government's support for laws to ban gay conversion and Premier Jeremy Rockliff's support for the proposed Aboriginal Voice to Parliament (<i>Mercury</i>, 13 May 2023).</p><p>The two rebel Liberals both said they did not plan to destabilise the government, with Tucker saying he hoped Rockliff would remain as Premier. When interviewed, Alexander said, “I don't want to disrupt the government. We need to make sure that the right decisions are being taken, and the last thing the community needs is a big upheaval” (<i>ABC News</i>, 12 May 2023). Since the May 2021 election the government had lost six MPs, including former Premier Peter Gutwe","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 4","pages":"719-725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.12956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616530","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":"Northern Territory January to June 2023","authors":"Robyn Smith","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12953","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajph.12953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 4","pages":"737-743"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138626449","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":"Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction","authors":"Alexander E. Davis,&nbsp;James Blackwell","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12947","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australia's international relations (IR) discipline has a deep colonial history, but has never been through a conscious process of decolonisation. Although discussions of decolonising IR have taken place elsewhere, the discussion in Australia is in its infancy. This collection examines the possibilities for decolonising Australia's IR in the present moment, looking at its teaching practice, its research, its styles of analysis, and its relationship with Australian foreign policy. We consider what is particular to Australia's settler colonial context, what is achievable, and what is not. The collection also seeks to develop a new style of anti-colonial foreign policy analysis in Australia, looking at the relationship between colonisation, settlement, and foreign policy. In this introduction, we first look over debates on decolonisation elsewhere in the field. We then examine the historical background of Australia's IR discipline, and look at Australian Indigenous diplomacy, to consider what is specific to Australia's context. We conclude by looking over the contributions of the papers in this collection, and consider what a decolonised Australian IR might look like. Ultimately, we argue that any process of decolonisation will be extremely difficult, and that decolonisation in Australian IR should be perceived as an ongoing struggle, rather than an endpoint in itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"405-421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50121033","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":"Review Essay: Recent Histories of Water in Australia","authors":"Kylie Carman-Brown","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"562-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155406","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 Australian History Industry. Edited by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021. pp.viii + 361. $49.95. ISBN: 9781922669605.","authors":"Lyndon Megarrity","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"567-568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147111","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":"Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By Frank Bongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781760640095.","authors":"Jon Piccini","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"569-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137474","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 Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline. By Ian Kemish. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2022. AU$32.99 pb. ISBN: 9780702263491.","authors":"William Maley","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"570-571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137492","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":"Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan. By Mark Willacy. Simon & Schuster, 2021. AU$35.00 (pb).","authors":"Mia Martin Hobbs","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"561-562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50136418","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":"Robert Philp and the Politics of Development. By Lyndon Megarrity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd, 2022. pp. xv + 335, AU $49.95 (pb).","authors":"W. Ross Johnston","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"568-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50136417","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":"O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. By Kate Auty. La Trobe University Press, 2023. AU$34.99(pb).","authors":"Ray Kerkhove","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12935","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"69 3","pages":"572-573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50150891","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}