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What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the politics of ideas in Australia.

What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the po...

What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the politics of ideas in Australia.

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What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the politics of ideas in Australia.

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What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the politics of ideas in Australia.

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Publisher

Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2010.

Date

2010.

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74VvxgRmMEVA

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991016801639702626

Language

English

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Physical content

1 online resource (396 p.)

Contents

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: The way we live now; 1. A seismic shift?; PART TWO: Democracy by degrees; 2. 'Really respectablesettlers' or 'most furiousdemocrats'?; 3. Defining interests; PART THREE: The 'new liberal' agenda; 4. A true Commonwealth?; 5. Parallel visions: the set...

PART SIX: Reconsiderations: the way we live now, repriseConclusion: political reasoning and political action; Guide to sources; Notes; Index.

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Publisher

Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2010.

Date Published

2010.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Summary

Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by distinctive patterns of political thought from the colonial period to the Rudd government. But how have these patterns arisen? And what have been their effects on shaping what we think is politically possi...

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What were they thinking? [electronic resource] : the politics of ideas in Australia.

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74VvxgRmMEVA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxgRmMEVA

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ISBN

9781742232485

DDC

320.994

MMS ID

991016801639702626