Australia under construction : nation-building : past, present and future /

"From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation', the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. The very idea of nation-building has both excited the popular imagination about what we might achieve as a society a...

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Corporate Authors: Australia and New Zealand School of Government, ANU E Press
Other authors / contributors: Butcher, John
Imprint: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2008.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:ANZSOG (Series)
Table of Contents:
  • Nation-building in Australia: a discourse, iconic project or tradition of resonance? / John Wanna
  • The unfinished business of nation-building / John Butcher
  • In the wake of economic reform ... new prospects for nation-building? / Michael Pusey
  • The challenge of teaching Australian history / Anna Clark
  • A passion for white elephants: some lessons from Australia's experience of nation building / Richard Evans
  • Populate, parch and panic: two centuries of dreaming about nation-building in inland Australia / Robert Wooding
  • Australia's fiscal straitjacket / Fred Argy
  • The 'Building Better Cities' program 1991-96: a nation-building initiative of the Commonwealth Government / Lyndsay Neilson
  • Stumbling towards nation-building: impediments to progress / Anthony F. Shepherd
  • Broadbanding the nation: lessons from Canada or shortcomings in Australian federalism? / Michael de Percy
  • Re-imagining the Australian state: political structures and policy strategies / Ian Marsh.