context. These words have a beguiling simplicity but they have been the cloak
for much standardization, homogenization, and uniformity.
The crucial task, in revival of Australia’s Federation, thus lies in releasing it
from the bureaucratic constraints which have increasingly enveloped it in the
decades after the Second World War.
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