Once described by menzies as 'the boy delinquent from Queensland', Bill Hayden is widely considered today to be the best man never to have become prime minister of Australia. This is the insightful and revealing chronicle of Bill Hayden's life and career: from Queensland copper to labor politician, from leader of the opposotion to governor-general of Australia.
Australian Politics and Government is a comprehensive 2003 comparative study of Australian state and Commonwealth governments and their politics for over forty years. In addition to major chapters on each state in the Australian federation, the book includes chapters on the Commonwealth government and the two self-governing territories. These are supplemented by a chapter summarizing the distin…
In this book, completed after his 80th birthday, he covers his activities after Parliament. He reviews Governor-General Kerr's coup and robustly rebuts Chief Justice Barwick's doctrines. He examines the repercussions of the US withdrawal from Viet Nam and the Portuguese withdrawal from Timor in 1975 and the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He discusses the decline of the Hawke Government, t…
The end of certainty is about power, personality and national destiny. It is the story of how the 1980s have changed Australia and political parties forever and why there is no going back. The tale is one of political struggle, financial excess and economic boom and bust.
This book explains about Australia and Indonesia are unusual neighbours. Strange Neighbours provides a basis for greater understanding between Indonesia and Australia, respect for each other's cultural and domestic political values and practices, appreciation of our respective security interested in the future pf the Australia-Indonesia relationship.
Paul Keating, Prime Minister tells a story which culminates in the most compelling episode in recent Australian political history. Keating's elevation to the prime ministership capped a period of bitter struggle and dissension in the Labor Government. By early 1992 Labor had been in office nine years and for eight-and-a-half of those years Keating was federal treasurer. The changed image that t…
This is the second of three volumes of documents on Australian policy toward Indonesia in the years 1947-49. It begins with the negotiation of the Renville Agreement in January 1948 and ends with the launching of the second Dutch police action against the Republic in December 1948, Episodes and issues covered include the efforts of Justice R. C. Kirby, Australia's representative on the Committe…
Indonesia's independence was an early and critical test of Australia's capacity to respond positively to change in Asia. Before the Second World War much of Aus- tralia's 'near north' was controlled by one or other of the European colonial powers. After the war Asia was transformed as the Philippines, India, Pakistan and Ceylon attained independence. In French Indochina and the Netherlands East…
Indonesia' struggle for independence was an early test of Australia's capacity to respond positively to change in Asia. After the Second World War Australia's 'near nort' was transformed as Asian nations broke free from European empires. In the Netherlands East Indies Indonesian nationalis encounred strong opposition. In December 1948 Dutch military forces launched a second military offensive a…
This book examines the nature of Australia's emerging militarism and its implications for the future of this country and our neighbours. It argues that Australia's forces should confine themselves to the defence of this continent and its maritime resource zone. It urges a cooperative approach to regional security which would use dialogue, negotiation and conflict resolution as tools for resolvi…