{"title":"Victoria July to December 2024","authors":"Zareh Ghazarian","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"360-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582439","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}
Tim Soutphommasane, Liyana Kayali, David T. Smith, Jane Chi Hyun Park, Gilbert Caluya
{"title":"Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians: The Rhetoric of Reaction and Racial Discrimination in Australia, 1975–1995","authors":"Tim Soutphommasane, Liyana Kayali, David T. Smith, Jane Chi Hyun Park, Gilbert Caluya","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around racism and anti-racism. This article seeks to retrieve some of the history of this contestation by examining parliamentary debates associated with the first two legislative contests relating to the RDA: in 1975 surrounding the enactment of the Act, and in 1994–1995 around the proposed inclusion in the Act of provisions relating to the prohibition of racial hatred. While each set of parliamentary debates was concerned with specific questions of legislative development, our analysis reveals significant continuities. Debates about racial discrimination in Australia have served as sites of contest over multiculturalism and national identity and reveal the shifting parameters of acceptable debate about racism. They also illustrate how political conflicts in Australia, rather than merely exhibiting national tendencies, replicate rhetorical patterns that broadly characterise ideological contests between progress and reaction. This article, in particular, draws upon Albert O. Hirschman's work on the “rhetoric of reaction,” and analyses how Australian political argumentation about race has frequently centred on certain ideas of “perversity,” “futility” and “jeopardy.”</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 4","pages":"669-700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145646804","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":"Fiscal Equalisation in Australian Federalism: Share and Share Alike?","authors":"Alan Fenna, John Phillimore","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The sharing of revenue between the states to achieve fiscal equality has long been an important and internationally notable feature of Australian federalism. While horizontal fiscal equalisation is always prone to dispute, unprecedented conflict erupted in the Australian system in the second decade of this century and resulted in changes that brought the long-standing principles of the system into question. Central to both the origins and the crisis of the equalisation system was the State of Western Australia, a long-time beneficiary transformed into a much-aggrieved donor. This article outlines the history and nature of the system before analysing the causes, character, and consequences of the 2018 changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 4","pages":"701-717"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.13063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145646786","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 June to December 2024","authors":"Robert Hortle, Lachlan Johnson","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"312-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582163","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":"History and Memory Between Europe and Australia: New Perspectives","authors":"Ben Mercer, Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article surveys the state of European history in Australia as measured by the 2023 conference of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH). It places the current study of European history in the context of the crises of the contemporary world and asks how the eye of the European historian can be usefully mobilised to inform the present moment. Despite challenges history and humanities generally face at Australian universities today, the AAEH conference and the articles stemming from it demonstrated the scope and depth of research on European history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its relevance to understanding the current socio-political turbulences around the world. The special issue features seven articles which bring historical insight and sensibility to contemporary reflections in the fields of international relations, migration and diaspora, and gender studies, as well as new approaches to understanding and remembering the past today.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"183-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582102","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":"Australia: The Politics of Degraded Democracy. By William Maley, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. pp. v + 268. $49.95","authors":"Lisa Hill","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 3","pages":"546-548"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196957","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":"Australian Capital Territory July to December 2024","authors":"Chris Monnox","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"341-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582099","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":"Queensland July to December 2024","authors":"Paul D. Williams","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"353-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582100","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":"Commonwealth of Australia July to December 2024","authors":"John Wanna","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 2","pages":"366-371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582336","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":"Battle of the Banks. How Ad Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan. By Bob Crawshaw (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025), pp. xi +220. $49.95","authors":"Greg Patmore","doi":"10.1111/ajph.13056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"71 3","pages":"544-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196560","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}