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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

The Redemption of a Forgotten War: Korea in Australian Memory and Commemoration

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Korean War has been remembered in Australia despite its historically marginal place in the nation's military heritage. By detailing Australian memories of the Korean War across official, quasi‐official, and unofficial histories, it shows that Korea occupied only a minor position in Australia's military imaginary ...
David Hundt
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Hope: Strategies of Compromise in the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's intelligence chiefs explicitly link the role and purpose of their agencies today to two royal commissions led by Justice Robert Hope in the 1970s and 1980s. Such appeals to Hope's inquiries as the genesis of Australia's contemporary professional and apolitical intelligence community lean into the legitimising function of royal ...
Melanie Brand, Brian Cuddy
wiley   +1 more source

(Non)belonging and (un)freedom

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Structure and agency in emancipatory reform: A blueprint from a Black union

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and ...
Benjamin T. Lynerd
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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