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Has Politics Become More Professional? Career and Legislative Professionalisation in the Australian Parliament Since 1950

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
“Professional politicians” have been lamented for their perceived negative impact on representative democracy. However, the concept of “political professionalisation” is deployed inconsistently, making these claims difficult to assess. This article develops a framework to measure professionalisation across two dimensions: career professionalisation ...
Peter Ferguson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Women played a key role in the founding of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) in 1944 and in providing its branch structure. The newly established LPA also sought to encourage women to join the party and to seek political office. This led the LPA to achieve most of the “firsts” for women in Australian politics and, for much of the 20th century, the ...
Blair Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
wiley   +1 more source

An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created ...
Murray Goot, Tim Rowse
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

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