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

Roe, M. 1978.‘The subject and the subjective: Hancock’s autobiography’,Meanjin, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 129–32. Roe, M. 1984. Nine A ...

6 Australia’s‘Talent for Bureaucracy’ and the Atrophy of Federalism J. R. Nethercote This chapter has its origins in a call prio ...

point for many years was the Australian Labor Party. Although it stands for one-person:one-value, until the late 1960s Labor’s s ...

Sir Isaac Isaacs, with reinforcement from H. B. Higgins, both alumni of the Constitutional Conventions, former attorneys-general ...

and insert‘Anything’was not by any means a jest; the‘external affairs’power can now be activated by invoking any international i ...

Thus, Australia, inasmuch as it is studied, is studied very much as if it were a unitary state. What interest there has been in ...

the possible exception of the Federalism Research Centre at the Australian National University, struck down nearly two decades a ...

In a telling passage he contended that: Australian appetites have merely been in a general way larger and coarser than the avera ...

6.4 Adjectival Federalism And now back to federalism. Over the years there have been a number of adjectives applied to federalis ...

that federalism represented a desire for‘union but not unity’, thought feder- alism simply meant‘weak government, legalism and c ...

The objectives are to‘reduce and end, as far as possible, the waste, duplication and second guessing between different levels of ...

Except for those very familiar with Australian federalism, no one reading the paper would realize the pervasive significance of‘ ...

context. These words have a beguiling simplicity but they have been the cloak for much standardization, homogenization, and unif ...

7 Australia’s Industrial Relations Singularity Phil Lewis Australia’s enduring approach to industrial relations is judged by bot ...

1989). Most notable were the maritime dispute of 1890, which was particularly violent and involved the military in New South Wal ...

Thus the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration was created to settle disputes between employees, unions, and employ ...

The standard of‘fair and reasonable’must therefore be something else, and I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than ...

that compulsory arbitration has impeded the development of good industrial relations because the parties have come to believe th ...

Although the penal laws were not repealed, they were never used again and so unions effectively now had the whip hand over emplo ...

meal breaks; leave of various types—including recreation, sick, and long service; loading and allowances; special rates for ...