Northern dreams : the politics of Northern Development in Australia / Lyndon Megarrity
- Bib ID:
- 7767285
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Megarrity, Lyndon, 1971-, author
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty. Ltd., 2018
- ©2018
- xiv, 230 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781925801187 (paperback)
- 1925801187 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Northern Dreams brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards. It also highlights the role that Australian politicians such as Gough Whitlam, Ben Chifley, Robert Menzies and Bob Hawke played in shaping northern development policies to suit their times. Northern Dreams is the definitive history of the politics of northern development in Australia" -- Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Setting the scene
- White Australia's empty North (1901-1941)
- Northern Australia in the 1940s
- The politics of neglect in a time of prosperity
- Northern Development in the Whitlam Era
- Northern peaks and troughs (1975-2013)
- Still dreaming.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2018
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