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Mateship
A ‘mate’ is a mate, right? Wrong, argues Nick Dyrenfurth in this provocative new look at one of Australia’s most talked-about beliefs. In the first book-length exploration of our secular creed, one of Australia’s leading young historians and public commentators turns mateship’s history upside down. Did you know that the first Australians to call each other ‘mate’ were business partners? Or that many others thought that mateship would be the basis for creating an entirely new society — namely, a socialist one? For some, the term ‘mate’ is ‘the nicest word in the English language’; for others, it represents the very worst features in our nation’s culture: conformity, ...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)--one of the oldest labor parties in the world and the first to form a government--this short and lively book recounts ALP's history from its origins during the late 19th century through present day. The book details the party's numerous successes in winning government at all levels and its policymaking that has transformed lives, as well as demonstrating how the ALP has attracted an extraordinary range of members, parliamentary representatives, leaders, unionists, activists and, indeed, opponents. The ALP has been a central force in Australia throughout the 20th century, and this concise chronicle tells the story of their triumphs and crises, their colorful characters and famed members, and their evolving aspirations.
Getting the Blues
Getting the Blues takes stock of what many are calling Labor's unlosable election and presents a blueprint for Labor's renewal. It begins by taking stock of the last turbulent decade of Australian politics, traces the nation's embrace of a Messiah complex and consider whether the nation has become ungovernable, before providing a candid personal account of the 2019 federal election. Drawing on the author's writings over the last decade and the influence of Britain's 'Blue Labour' tendency Getting the Blues delves beyond personality politics to provide answers to the big question confronting modern Labor: is it fundamentally broken or does it have the willingness to change its ways and renew itself as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century?
Rental Nation
Australia is rapidly becoming a nation of renters. Home ownership is increasingly out of reach of working class and middle Australia, with intergenerational equity implications. Australians engaged in the private rental market are renting for longer with decreasing prospects of entering the property-owning market. In the context of increasing insecure work and record low wages growth, Australians are experiencing record levels of 'rental stress' - that is, the proportion of wages and salaries which are expended on rent is on the rise. Aside from the economic (and emotional) strain on individuals and families, higher rental stress is a risk to an already weak national economy by virtue of cre...
Private Gain, Private Pain
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a rethink of the role of government and the public sector, and Australia's sovereign capability. It has also led many to reconsider the privatisation of essential services and contracting out government work and the trade-off pertaining to cost and reliability, occupational health and safety, as well as equity in our workplaces. This has been particularly the case given the experience of hotel quarantine security in Victoria and the private aged care sector. Indeed, the pandemic has opened the eyes of the public to government, both state and federal, sometimes including Labor administrations, avoiding responsibility for more than two decades worth ...
The Write Stuff Voice of Unity on Labor's Future
The Australian Labor Party has forgotten how to win national elections. Federal Labor finds itself with only one in three Australians prepared to give it their vote. It has arrived at a historic tipping point that if not fixed potentially spells the end for one of the world's oldest and most successful social democratic parties. Caught between its more conservative working-class base in Australia's suburbs and regions and its inner-city progressive activists, Labor appears unable to bridge a growing chasm, and unable to build winning national coalitions. The 129-year-old ALP only succeeds when its right-wing, known as Labor Unity or Centre Unity, is on top of its game. The Write Stuff: Voice...
Bella's New Digs
The perfect book for your child - (ages 4-9) Follow Bella's adventures with her best mates Bo and Billy in outer space! On the moon, life's a breeze: no parents or teachers telling them 'no, no, no, no'! But all is not as it seems. Pursued by intergalactic thieves, the 'rat pack' embark upon a rollicking and dangerous space adventure!
Trust Me
It’s not news that Australians don’t really trust their politicians and the relationship between politicians and the people who elect them is certainly not warm and cuddly. But as this lively book shows, the ‘crisis of trust’ has a long history. The path from mutton chop-whiskered colonial politicians to ‘Honest Johnnie’ and ‘Juliar’ is a rich and colourful one. From the 1850s to the 2013 election, Jackie Dickenson traces the ways in which this animosity has changed or hasn’t. While we’re always being told that cynicism about politics is on the rise, she argues that having blind trust isn’t a desirable alternative either. And does the rise of personality politics make it all the media’s fault? She asks tough questions, revisits scandals, explores times of trauma and difficulty for the nation, and concludes that Australian voters don’t have it too bad.
Israel and the Diaspora: Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World
This collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Israel. This symposium highlighted contemporary Jewish identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and how Jewish life has been transformed in light of various types of antisemitism. The book considers the diasporic Jewish experiences through examining the intersections between various Jewish communities sociologically, historically, and geographically. The text covers world Jewry in general, and each of the diaspora and Israeli Jewries more specifically in the context of mutual responsibility, but also focuses on areas of tension concerning...
Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s
Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of these rebellions, as well as locating the impact of radical visitors to the nation. It situates Australian protest and reform movements within a properly global – and particularly Asian – context, where Australian protestors sought ans...
