Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

introduced. Personnel selection based on the merit principle was exempted from the new framework, and this continues to be conte ...

the monarchy in Australia with a presidency. But the proposed change, when it went to referendum, took the form of advocating a ...

of government, notably in thefields of welfare, higher education, and labour relations. This, together with the growing cross-be ...

15 Australia and New Zealand Parallel and Divergent Paths Keith Rankin The thesis of Australia’s exceptionalism contends that Au ...

15.1 Exceptional Anglo-Western Expansion James Belich (2009) emphasizes a pervasive British connection. While there are other re ...

with its receding land frontier, it was a reality quite familiar to early California. And a reality that would, in all cases, in ...

Party governments of 1912 to 1928—was about fostering grasslands’science and primary produce marketing, to entrench the trade li ...

settlement (1848) carried a utopian vision that reflected the evangelical polit- ical economy of Thomas Chalmers (Hilton 1985), ...

interface between settler and indigenous New Zealand. As the weight of settler numbers and expectations increased, those mediati ...

Empire.^13 Already New Zealand was building what would become quite an exceptional track record of domestic constitutional chang ...

faith, came to New Zealand early and often. In addition, a significant propor- tion of Irish immigrants to New Zealand were from ...

Economy(Rankin 1993). Later, back in the UK as a member of William Morris’s Socialist League, Carruthers would criticize the Lib ...

New Zealanders and Australians continue to be exceptional today in their capacity to absorb debt (Rankin 2014b). On public debt ...

Reform had become a multi-interest party by the 1920s. An explicit‘Coun- try Party’could not achieve prominence in New Zealand a ...

15.6 Post-Second World War Political Economy New Zealand retained its‘Senate’(Legislative Council) until 1950, when it was eutha ...

Airport), and most prolonged in relation to the applefire blight issue (Bertram 2009, p. 544). Fundamentally different natural e ...

protection for secondary industries.^29 The 1984 disjuncture represented an alleged Treasury‑supported‘coup’on the part of the i ...

New Zealand generally complied with British wishes to accept Indians as British subjects. Indeed, in the racial hierarchy of the ...

and Phar Lap—Melbourne Cup winners in 1890 and 1930—remain among the most famous of many Australian horses from New Zealand. Whe ...

security more often preceded those of Australia. From 1938 welfare policy diverged in areas of health care, retirementincome, an ...