Australia & Oceania

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A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada

Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that … ; 328 View
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Introduction

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Citizenship and Subject-Hood in 20th Century Australia

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Australians were "subjects" before they were citizens. For almost the first fifty years after the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, they were – at least in law … 10 $1.00 Add
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Indices of Citizenship

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There is a tension in citizenship discourse and, more to the point in daily public debate, conflict over the very meaning of the term. 12 $1.20 Add
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Sycophants, Citizens and the Majesty of Nature: Some Thoughts on the History of Australian Civic Debate

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Throughout the last 150 years of at times active, at times utterly uninspired civic debate, Australia has produced its fair share of sycophants determined to possess the baubles of Empire. … 12 $1.20 Add
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Deliberative Democracy and the People: The Australian Experience

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This paper will explore the notion of the people and their manifestations in the evolving deliberative democracy. While this topic can be explored from any number of avenues, the approach of this … 16 $1.60 Add
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Inventing the Nation Through the Ballot Box

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Much of Australia’s early identity as a nation revolved around its democratic experiments. In this paper I look at how Australian elections became family festivals rather than the drunken … 20 $2.00 Add
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“.. .That Sweep of Savage Splendour… “A Century of Australians in Antarctica

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Initially lured south perhaps as much by virtue of opportunistic geography as their undoubted ability, a number of remarkable individuals from that era would in time forge an enduring link … 14 $1.40 Add
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Howard’s Way or Deane’s Way: Culture Wars in Contemporary Australia

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Over the past ten years at least, a period largely defined by the prime ministership of John Howard, but arguably extending back through twenty years of pronounced economic change and social … 20 $2.40 Add
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Women as Citizens in Canada

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It is impossible to understand the place of women as citizens in Canada without understanding the moment of women’s inscription as citizens. This moment, and the terms of inscription, have … 12 $1.20 Add
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Citizens of the Fifth Continent: Unexpected Culture in the Late 19th Century

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In this paper I will pursue one of the issues that Castles et al. raise concerning the role that women, in particular, have played both at home and abroad; especially that group of women who … 16 $1.60 Add
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The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early 20th Century Canada and Australia

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This paper seeks to determine what the law of sexual assault in the early twentieth century illustrates about the similarity and distinctiveness of Canadian and Australian legal traditions. 37 $3.70 Add
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Citizenship Politics in Canada and the Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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This chapter is premised on the idea that Trudeau was the product of a society (Quebec and Canada) that, since the nineteen-sixties, tended to adopt more explicitly the American approach to rights. 16 $1.60 Add
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The Second Wave: Australia Transformed

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If citizenship means counting in a society, the recognition of unequal citizenship has led the disadvantaged to seek redress through state intervention, and in Australia women have constituted … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Nations of Australia

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It is still the case that Indigenous people have neither a clear nor a just place within the ambit of the Australian polity. This fact, and the continuing disputes over the status of Indigenous … 19 $1.90 Add
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Citizenship and Aboriginal Governance: The Royal Commission’s Vision for the Future

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Aboriginal people are both Canadian citizens and citizens of their particular nations. Thus they hold a form of dual citizenship, which permits them to maintain loyalty to their nation and to … 6 $0.60 Add