Melanie Beresford, Prue Kerr and Andreas Mamchak present their papers at the Post War Reconstruction Conference [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 704831
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Beresford, Melanie, speaker
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1 Sept. 1981
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 109 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track stereo ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Post-war reconstruction seminar.
- Summary:
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Melanie Beresford and Prue Kerr speak of the development of capitalism; Mutual Aid Agreement; tariff reductions; Imperial Preference and the Atlantic Charter; Australian full employment policy; protective tariff; Labor government's reduction of the overseas debt; Australian desire to utilize London funds; Sterling Area arrangement disadvantages; proposal for the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; International Clearing Union and Stabilization Fund; the need for penalties against persistent creditor nations; Bretton Wood Agreements; Melville's objection to the Agreement to establish the IMF; Australian attitude to the International Trade Organisation; commercial policy; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; Bretton Woods debate in Australia; Australian government's decision to join the IMF and IBRD; selling the decision to join to the Labor Party and the public; Chifley and Menzies governments' drawings on the IMF; Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conference, 1952; break in the Anglo-Australian relationship.
Andreas Mamchak speaks of the establishment of the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction; Ministry objectives; policy as the outcome of process and systems; the influence of the individual in policy; role of values in determining policy; ideology and policy; Selinger model; problems of policy implementation; notion of culture; decision and policy processes of the ALP; economist as Principal Adviser to the Government; Financial and Economic Advisory Committee; Copland as Economic Consultant; Coombs as Director-General of Post-War Reconstruction; Keynesian contribution to reconstruction; full employment objective, 1941-1943; administrative planning paradigm in Australia; politicization of post-war reconstruction; legislative reform; Commonwealth/State relations; constitutional referendum; values and ideology in reconstruction policy; May 1945 Labor policy on full employment; political consensus on full employment policy ; conflicting value orientations; state intervention and control; failure of ideological strategy; matters dealt with and acts administered by the Dept. of Post-War Reconstruction; international activities; post-war phase.
- Biography/History:
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Melanie Beresford teaches Politics at the University of Adelaide.
Prue Kerr is a graduate student in Economics at the University of Cambridge.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at the Australian National University, Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcripts available.
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- Also Titled:
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- Melanie Beresford, Prue Kerr present 'A turning point for Australian capitalism: 1945-52'
- Andreas Mamchak present 'Central economic planning and post-war reconstruction: an examination of ideological influence in the process of policy formation and implementation'
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