Girt - David Hunt (Reviews)
Author/editor:David Hunt
GirtShaun CroweWhen Tony Abbott decided to revive British honours in late March, he did so because it would add a “grace note” to Australian life. He thought it would be “nice touch”, an enriching ornament to our past. Knights and Dames would again lumber over the national landscape, representing…
Greg Gericho - The Rise of the Fifth Estate (Reviews)
Author/editor:Greg Gericho
The Rise of the Fifth Estateby Marija Taflaga In a year that saw the US Republican presidential convention undermined by citizen fact-checkers, that saw Fairfax Media apologise to the Prime Minister after a story claiming that she may have broken the law was swiftly dissected and…
Gregory Melleuish - Australia and the Servile State
Author/editor:Gregory Melleuish
In recent years there has been an enormous amount of work done on Australian literature. Unfortunately this has not been matched by an interest in others areas of Australian intellectual life, including political thought. This raises the suspicion that perhaps there has been no political thought…
Julie Tonkin and Don Fletcher - Kate Grenville: giving voice to women
Author/editor:Julie Tonkin|Don Fletcher
In this essay we indicate some of the ways in which Kate Grenville’s fiction is designed to suggest how women are oppressed by language and violence and how they might escape complicity in that oppression. Grenville’s work is not feminist theory. Indeed, she has said that she writes to explore…
L.J. Hume - Another Look at the Cultural Cringe
Author/editor:L.J. Hume
It has become a very common practice among contemporary historians, writers of letters to newspapers, book reviewers and other commentators on Australian affairs to refer to a cultural (or colonial or cultural colonial) cringe when they are describing the attitudes and behavior of earlier…
Peter Loveday - Australian Political Thought
Author/editor:Peter Loveday
This classic contribution to the study of politics in Australia from the recently deceased Peter Loveday originally appeared in Richard Lucy (ed.) 'The Pieces of Politics'; MacMillan, 1975."Political thought in Australia has never been shaped into coherent and well-established bodies of doctrine…
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism - ed Geoffrey Levey (Reviews)
Author/editor:Geoffrey Levey
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalismby Melissa LovellThe official commitment to multiculturalism as a policy has ‘waxed and waned’ in recent years, but it remains an important part of the Australian political landscape. As Geoffrey Brahm Levey points out in his comprehensive…