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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian 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
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how mainstream print and online news publications have reported on the role of Commonwealth commissions and parliamentary inquiries in responding to gender‐based violence in Australia. Analysing coverage of the release of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1974–1977) together with three parliamentary inquiries ...
Meghan Hopper
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The Politics of Hope: Strategies of Compromise in the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security
Australian 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
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ‘Westminster system’ is commonly used as a descriptor of Australian political institutions. This article instead traces its emergence as a political language for debating the adequacy of modern Australian government as the relationship between democracy and capitalism changed in the half century after World War II. From the late 1960s, and
Ben Huf
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Recovery Without Reward: How Leadership and Policy Shaped the 2024 Queensland Election
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Queensland's political culture boasts a predilection for ‘strong’ leadership and ‘pragmatic’ policy where voters value decisive leaders while also rewarding governments capable of delivering ‘material’ economic outcomes. In the context of that culture, this article argues the 2024 Queensland election—producing a result very different from that
Paul D. Williams
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Latinos mobilizing beyond threats: The role of fear and hope in issue activism
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Interest groups intent on spurring political participation often highlight potential threats to galvanize audiences into action. However, while loss aversion is typically seen as a strong motivator, it is important not to neglect the motivational effect of hope and reward‐seeking behavior as people navigate their political landscape.
Vanessa Cruz Nichols
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School Election 1995, National Study
"School Election 1995, National Study" is a national poll (telephone interview) conducted by Norsk Gallup Institutt AS on behalf of NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data.
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Why are surveys struggling to estimate vote shares?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Polling in the 2020 US presidential elections significantly underestimated Trump support, calling into question the accuracy of all political surveys. Although many have speculated that this bias is due to Trump supporters refusing to respond to surveys, we have previously lacked the data to directly evaluate this theory.
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