Constitution
Australia 49, 56, 66, 108, 109, 120, 127,
161 n26, 229, 237, 267, 268, 277
Britain 73, 145
California 145
Canada 268, 269
France 95
New South Wales 89
New Zealand 294 n10, 298, 300, 307
South Australia 159
United States 36, 56 n45, 64, 250
Victoria 175
see alsoHigh Court of Australia
see alsoconstitutional conventions
see alsoThe English Constitution
see alsoconstitutional referendums
Constitution of Liberty 199
constitutional conventions 67, 74, 90, 109,
120, 229
constitutional referendums 161, 287, 300
convicts and convictism 29, 35, 38, 48, 54,
168, 267
Conway, R. 100
Cook, Joseph 74
Costello, Peter 270
Country Party of Australia 28, 109, 143, 151,
155, 156–8, 162, 279
see alsoFarmers Union
see alsoNational Party of Australia
Country Party of New Zealand 155,
298 n23, 299
Cousin, V. 84
Croce, B. 93
currency 298, 300
Curtin, John 74
government of 192
Davies, A. F. 9, 12, 34, 45, 46, 53, 112, 113
Deakin, Alfred 7, 63, 66–7, 69, 229, 232, 238,
239, 269, 279, 280
Deakinism 6, 154
Deakinite Settlement 232, 237, 239
debt
business 223
government 28, 169, 171, 172, 182, 297,
298, 301
household 203
Delprat, Guillaume 239
de Maistre, J. 95, 96
democracy 17, 21, 32, 47, 70
and aristocracy 88, 92
and religion 64, 95, 96
and welfare state 199
changing meaning and concept 85, 86
immaturity in Australia 99, 144, 147, 161
quick rise of in Australia 23– 5
risks 85– 7
tendency to degenerate 88– 9
vulnerability to public opinion 86
see alsoDemocracy in America
see alsofranchise
see alsoparliament and parliamentarism
see alsoTocqueville
Democracy in America
Australian reaction to 89– 90
behavioural insights of 92– 3
influence in Australia 89– 90
intellectual foundations of 92
on economic forces of centralisation 88
on equality 86– 7
on meaning of democracy 85– 6
reception of 81– 2
religion 94– 6
risks of democracy 86
social dynamic 86
Democratic Labor Party 157, 277
demogrant 305, 306
Denmark 8, 155, 189, 190 n2, 198
depressions 13
of 1840s 22, 291
of 1890s 25–6, 54, 171, 181, 231, 232, 235
of 1930s 171, 191, 240, 299
Dicey A. V. 90 n3, 114, 115
Dissenting churches 35, 148, 149, 234
see alsoMethodism
Douglas, Roger 296, 301, 302 n30, 306
drought 27, 52, 247, 254, 289
dynasties
in business 239– 40
in law 49 n29
Econonomic-Environmental types of
explanation 52, 53
economic growth 13, 84, 116, 211,
235, 240, 244
education
seeschools
seeuniversities
egalitarianism 8, 34, 36, 38, 90, 224, 258, 284,
297, 307
see alsoequality
electoral systems
Australian Senate 150
first past the post 276, 295 n14, 298 n23
mixed member proportional 306
proportional representation 147–50, 276,
277, 306
elites 49 n29, 53, 224, 98 n11
Elster, J. 87, 93
employment
and minimum wages 138
infinancial services 202
in public sector 134
in railways 170 n9Index