Index
Aboriginals
civil rights 213 n5
contrast with European society 19– 20
contrast with Maˉori 20, 291 n3
early effects of European society on 21
employment 31
intermarriage 32
political rights and participation 24,
160 n25, 278
skip agricultural revolution 18, 19, 20
sport 213
treaties 19
W. K. Hancock 101, 115
Acworth, William 9, 166, 170, 183
Adams, Francis 12, 35, 42, 47
Adelaide 147, 148, 214, 219, 220, 222, 261
Advance Australia Where? 100
age pensions 27, 28, 188, 189, 190, 192, 199,
200, 201, 203, 206, 305, 306
Agrarianism 250, 299
see alsoCountry Party, Farmers Union
agriculture
seewheat industry, wool
American Commonwealth 90
ANZAC 304
digger 39
Archer Daniels Midland 263
Argentina 52, 169, 171, 173, 183, 189, 259, 304
Auckland 214, 293, 294, 295, 296
Australia
Australia as‘98 percent British’ 72
Australian conception of duty of state 91
Australian tariff protection 84
Australia’s lack of foundation myth 82, 100
Australia’s mediocrity 91, 94
Australia’s state of mind 91
coming of age 101– 2
fate of book 80–1, 99
idealism 97– 8
neglect of middle class 97– 8
neglect of religion 97
on equality 90– 1
relevance to current political debate 99– 100
sociological thinness 98
Australian Council of Education 43
Australian Council of Trade Unions
(ACTU) 123, 125, 126, 129, 193
Australian Democracy45, 46,49 n30,112, 113
Australian Electoral Commission 1, 143,
151 n11, 155, 158, 159
Australian Football League (AFL) 214–15, 217,
218 n10, 221–2, 223n, 224
Australian history 7, 64, 66, 82, 101, 102, 194
counterfactual 10, 241
see alsoFirst World War in Australian history
see alsoSecond World War in Australian
history
Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) 222
Australian Labor Party (ALP)
seeLabor Party
Australian Natives Association 43
Australian Prudential Regulation
Authority 196
Australian Settlement 7, 82, 102, 232 n8,
237, 289
Australian Sports Party 224 n21
Australian Workplace Agreements
(AWAs) 127, 128, 129, 130
authoritarianism 48, 50, 51 n34, 113, 114
autonomy, domain of 43, 46, 160
awards of pay tribunals 121, 122, 123, 124,
125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132,
134, 139
Baillieu, W. L. 236
Baker, S. 51, 99
ballot
double 151, 298 n23
of employees and union members 131, 138
of party leadership 279, 281
secret 23, 24, 143, 144, 146, 147,
149, 161
bankruptcy 183, 218, 252, 297 n21
banks and banking 7, 22, 26, 27, 28, 58,
305 n41
Bardsley, John 71
Barton, Edmund 73, 108, 279, 281
Barzun, J. 85