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

an American way, just as much as an Australian way. This objection—that all difference is a difference in kind—is tenable. But d ...

international swings, yet barely rode their roundabouts. Thus, the Progressiv- ist outlook managed to endure successfully into i ...

relations that the appearanceof change is most illusory.’Enterprise bargaining’ is in several ways simply the old‘consent awards ...

has made Australia richer, or poorer; fairer or unfairer; wiser or stupider....The ultimate concern of this volume is withwhyAus ...

counterfactual.^14 The counterfactual serves the sense that‘other histories’are possible; that events need not of necessity turn ...

The constrained focus of the work entails that it is not hunting for some national spirit that would holistically explain all. A ...

The expansion in higher education is surely a symbol of the new Australia. In 1939 14,000 students were enrolled in higher educa ...

Australian Legend, or Australian exceptionalism, or anything else. Australia was a postcode of international capitalism; a postc ...

Yet the sentiment has now burgeoned that her luck is running out (see Garnaut 2013). The most recent data on performance is disc ...

Corden, M. 2000.‘Australian universities: Moscow on the Molongolo’,Quadrant, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 7–20. Davidson, J. (ed.). 1986 ...

McCarty, J. 1973. ‘A general approach to Australian economic development 1845 – 1895 ’,Historian, no. 25, pp. 50–9. Macfarlane, ...

2 Australian Exceptionalism A Personal View Geoffrey Blainey Australia is marvelled at because of its unique fauna andflora, and ...

was for long the source of nearly all of its institutions and ideas; and the extreme variability of Australia’s long-term climat ...

invaders. There can be no agriculture without the help of new customs and institutions that safeguarded crops and herds, and new ...

treaty had been miraculously signed—between Governor Phillip and, say, the tribes on or nearest Sydney harbour—it would not have ...

The four decades from 1851 to 1890 saw fast economic development. The population multiplied by almost ten. Just imagine today’s ...

2.4 Australian Gold Glitters across the Seas There was another exceptional hallmark in the 1850s. Australia was perhaps more imp ...

exports; one (gold) with a static price, and the other (wool) with afluctuating price. Whereas the price of wool rose when the w ...

from this prison-like regime, democracy speedily emerged. This was an excep- tional outcome. In 1860 almost nine of every ten wh ...

Hitler’s conquests temporarily snuffed out most of the vigorous democracies in Europe. Why did the colonies move so quickly from ...