Making modern Australia : the Whitlam government's 21st century agenda / edited by Jenny Hocking.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hocking, Jenny, editor.

Series:

Australian history.

Australian History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitlam, Gough, 1916-2014.

Whitlam, Gough.

Australian Labor Party--History.

Australian Labor Party.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

'The changes we have made will remain like all great Labor legislation permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough Whitlam.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

About the contributors

Part I: Governing for the 21st century

Chapter 1. An inquiry into the whole human condition?: Whitlam, sexual citizenship and the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1974-77)

Chapter 2. Buying back the farm: The Whitlam government and the Australianisation of mining

Chapter 3. The regional and the local: Whitlam's 'quality of life' agenda

Chapter 4. Reach of the imagination: The bold experiment of the Australian Assistance Plan

Chapter 5. Gough Whitlam's 1974 re-election: 'Government by double dissolution'

Part II: From inspiration to implementation

Chapter 6. Gough Whitlam and the re-imagined citizen-subject of Australian social democracy

Chapter 7. Labor reconstructs: The 1940s and the 1970s

Chapter 8. Furnishing the prime ministerial mind: Whitlam and the national capital

Chapter 9. Whitlam's transformation of the prime ministerial office, its precursors and all that followed

Chapter 10. It's time: Spectrum's market research, modern campaigning, and Whitlam's mandate

Chapter 11. E G Whitlam: Reclaiming the initiative in Australian history

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925495-20-5

1-925495-19-1