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

illustrations of this‘societal technology’variously include: systems of nomen- clature; street numbers; sporting rules; time zon ...

military service. Originating in Prussia, it wasfirst introduced in the British Empire by Australia, as theCommonwealth Year Boo ...

statisticians, or‘statists’—may be ultimately traceable to the recurrent tyre- kicking by Great Britain of her doubtful colonial ...

effectively re-founded, by wool and gold, in the image of the liberalism and capitalism of Industrial Revolution Britain, a high ...

otherwise. It islegal constructivismthat captures best the significant‘legalism’ of Australia; the presumption that the law is t ...

theHarvester Caseversus rugby players meeting in Bateman’s Hotel in the same year to found a League to better their recompense. ...

Cultural–historicalexplanationsinvokecultureastheimmediatedetermining factor, with culture in turn explained by reference to som ...

economic vision that is kindred to the sphere of fraternity. This vision is made vivid with regard to the mineral bounty of Aust ...

3.7 The Inertial Society It is easy to see that environmental–economic and cultural–historical expla- nations of Australian exce ...

distant ones. The third possibility maintains that all shocks, recent and distant, are of equal potential importance.^42 The ups ...

custom’presses the significance of history, without invoking the‘culture’of the historical–cultural. It elevates‘fate’without in ...

Totheextentthataroleisawardedtorationalcustom,adifferentlightshines on the significance of Australian exceptionalism. Economic–e ...

that the antinomian both drives, and is driven by, ideas; ideas strong and possibly noble; ideas necessarily crude, indistinct, ...

Edwards, P. G. (ed.). 1979.Australia through American Eyes, 1935–1945: Observations by American Diplomats. St Lucia, Qld: Univer ...

Loomis, B. 2013.‘The politics of cosy relationships in the nation’s chamber of secrets’, Australian Financial Review, 21 June, p ...

Quinlan, M. 1998.‘Regulating labour in a colonial context: maritime legislation in the Australian colonies 1788– 1850 ’, Austral ...

4 Utilitarianism contra Sectarianism The Official and the Unauthorized Civic Religion of Australia Greg Melleuish and Stephen A. ...

evidence against it. Henry Parkes, many times premier of New South Wales (NSW) from the 1870s to the 1890s, of Chartist roots, i ...

problem of renegotiating the place of religion in a modern pluralist society. They resolved it in different ways. Just as every ...

separate the Church from state endowment. There were many reasons why such a society would achieve a reputation for irreligion. ...