Australia under construction [electronic resource] : nation-building : past, present and future / edited by John Butcher.
"From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation', the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. The very idea of nation-building has both excited the popular imagination about what we might achieve as a society a...
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Canberra, ACT, Australia :
ANU E Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Nation-building in Australia: a discourse, iconic project or tradition of resonance? / John Wanna
- The unfinished business of nation-building / John Butcher
- In the wake of economic reform ... new prospects for nation-building? / Michael Pusey
- The challenge of teaching Australian history / Anna Clark
- A passion for white elephants: some lessons from Australia's experience of nation building / Richard Evans
- Populate, parch and panic: two centuries of dreaming about nation-building in inland Australia / Robert Wooding
- Australia's fiscal straitjacket / Fred Argy
- The 'Building Better Cities' program 1991-96: a nation-building initiative of the Commonwealth Government / Lyndsay Neilson
- Stumbling towards nation-building: impediments to progress / Anthony F. Shepherd
- Broadbanding the nation: lessons from Canada or shortcomings in Australian federalism? / Michael de Percy
- Re-imagining the Australian state: political structures and policy strategies / Ian Marsh.