Tom Sheridan, Andrew Markus, Bettina Cass and Peter Love present their papers at the Post-war reconstruction seminar [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2227472
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Sheridan, Tom, speaker
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
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- 4 Sept. 1981
- 5 tape reels (ca. 128 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track stereo ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Post-war reconstruction seminar.
- Summary:
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Tom Sheridan speaks of the ALP and socialism in the 1940s; bank nationalization; industrial militance of the union movement; All Australian Trade Union Congresses of 1945 and 1947; exaggeration of Communist power; ACTU and the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme; Full Employment White Paper; union movement's acceptance of the government's reconstruction plans; increase in the Basic Wage; disputes, 1945-46; price control; Price Stabilisation Scheme; union demands for reduced working hours, equality of wages; legalistic elements of the federal arbitration system; Coombs and wage pegging; Chifley and the wage freeze; union reaction to government policy; inflation, 1949.
Andrew Markus speaks of the Australian population being fundamentally British in the 1930s; Australia's insularity and xenophobia; J. Lyng's view of racial groups; assisted passages for British immigrants; limits on Jewish migrants; Attlee and the Dominions' migration requirements; acceptance of Maltese immigrants; reports of the interdepartmental committee; Cabinet attitude to migration; issues during the war; Ward's attack on the immigration policy; child migration; Calwell and population growth; fall in shipping capacity of migrants; Jewish migrants; motives behind the Labor government's immigration policy; Calwell's negotiations for transport and bilateral agreements; International Refugee Organization and the change in the country's ethnic composition; terms of entry; transit centres; establishment of the Immigration Advisory Council; press attitude to the immigration issue; selection teams; employers and immigration; Dept. of Labour and National Service guidelines on migrant employment; contract labour; struggle in the union movement between the right and communists.
Betina Cass speaks of state non-intervention into the family; "normal" patterns of dependency; National Health and Medical Research Council's report on its inquiry into the the decline of the birth rate; fair deals for mothers; economic and psychological insecurity; the need for increased fertility as an adjunct to higher levels of employment, industrial output and defence security; child endowment; provision of social services in kind; Cumpston's report; equal pay; National Population Inquiry Supplementary Report; migration policy; government interventions; trends in marriage and fertility since 1971; fall in marital fertility since 1971; economic explanation for the declining rates of marriage and child birth; the market economy and the response of the social services state; role of the state; reasons for family limitation; uncontrolled fertility and poverty; Family Allowances; men's income; tax concessions.
Peter Love speaks of Section 48 of the Commonwealth Bank Act; the decision to nationalise the banks; initial response to nationalisation in Labor circles; 1890s strikes and the development of nationalism; closure of banks, 1893; establisment of the Commonwealth Bank; Money Power as cause and beneficiary of war; anti-semitic message of rhetoric and visual symbolism of banking; London money market's refusal to make loans to Australian governments; Niemeyer policy; rejection of the Lang Plan; the Theodore Plan; fall of the Scullin government; trade cycle in capitalist economies; Douglas Credit; National Credit Authority; Keynesian economies; ratification of the Bretton Woods Agreement.
- Biography/History:
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Tom Sheridan is Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Adelaide.
Andrew Markus is a Lecturer in History and Politics, Riverina College of Advanced Education.
Peter Love is a post-graduate student, Australian National University.
- Notes:
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- Includes Supplement: notes, Cabinet submission quotations, extract from: Script of Interview broadcast over United Nations Radio on 10 October, 1949 / Kingsley, Galleghan, Rucker.
- Recorded on 4 September 1981 at the Australian National University, Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript: (25 p.) ; Transcript (25 p. leaves) ; Transcript (37 p. leaves) ; Transcript (23 p. leaves)
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- Tom Sheridan presents 'Australian trade unions and post-war reconstruction'
- Andrew Markus presents 'Labor and immigration, 1943-1949'
- Bettina Cass presents 'Population policies and the Australian welfare state: the legitimation of redistributive policies'
- Peter Love presents 'The money power: an Australian Labor's populist inclinations'
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