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State of the Nation : Essays for Robert Manne.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781922231192
- 300.00
- HC603 .S83 2014
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Summary: A stunning collection of essays that analyses the major issues facing Australia todayThis nation has a lot of unfinished business. Will we become a republic any time soon? How can we honour our Indigenous peoples and tackle the intractable disadvantage they face? What does our treatment of asylum seekers reveal about us? Will we have a proper debate the next time we go to war?In early 2013 La Trobe University held a conference in honour of Professor Robert Manne, at which papers were presented by thinkers Manne has worked or argued with, and whom he most admires. State of the Nation compiles these original essays. They include innovative explorations of multiculturalism, social democracy, the future for Labor and the challenge of climate change. This is a book that shows how Australia is faring, good and bad, as it enters a new era of politics.Contributors include Mark Aarons, Stefan Auer, Nicholas Barry, Peter Beilharz, David Corlett, Jean Curthoys, Patrick Dodson, Chris Feik, Raimond Gaita, Rhonda Galbally, Clive Hamilton, John Hirst, Ramona Koval, Martin Krygier, Carmen Lawrence, Geoffrey Brahm Levey, William Maley, Anne Manne, Russell Marks, Mark McKenna, David McKnight, Aurelien Mondon, A. Dirk Moses, David Ritter, Morry Schwartz, Sanjay Seth, Tim Soutphommasane and Hugh White.
Intro -- Copyright -- STATE OF THE NATION -- Contents -- Introduction / Gwenda Tavan -- Prologue: By way of explanation / Robert Manne -- ON FRIENDSHIP -- A Tribute to Robert Manne / Raimond Gaita -- AUSTRALIAN POLITICS -- The Purpose of War / Hugh White -- The Republic of Australia: A forgotten ideal? / Mark McKenna -- Rudd, Gillard and Westminster / John Hirst -- The Renewal of Social Democracy / David McKnight -- CULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- Political Utopianism in the Anthropocene / Clive Hamilton -- Turning the Sky White / Anne Manne -- The New Politics of Freedom / David Ritter -- CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- Egalitarianism, Social Democracy and Rudd/Gillard Labor / Nicholas Barry -- Exposing the Truth about Equal Opportunity in Public Education / Carmen Lawrence -- Building an Alliance to Achieve Major Disability Reform / Rhonda Galbally -- THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE UNIVERSITY -- The Individual, the State, Mr Manne and Me / Ramona Koval -- Talking Back: Balancing power in the new public sphere / Morry Schwartz -- To Serve and Protect: Australia's public sphere / Chris Feik -- Halls of Uselessness? / Raimond Gaita -- Contrast and Continuity, Resistance and Acquiescence: Robert Manne and Australian universities / Russell Marks -- IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM -- The Return of Multiculturalism? / Tim Soutphommasane -- The Australian Multiculturalism Debate Today / Geoffrey Brahm Levey -- A Dark Underbelly or an Undercurrent of Decency? / David Corlett -- 'Fair Dinkum' Politics or the End of Politics? / Aurelien Mondon -- INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND POSTCOLONIALISM -- An Indigenous Doctrine of Discovery Post Terra Nullius / Patrick Dodson -- From Central Europe to Australia: Civilisational ideals and minority survival / A. Dirk Moses -- Is Humanism Eurocentric? / Sanjay Seth -- THE COLD WAR AND THE HOLOCAUST.
Intellectuals and Communism: A peculiar obsession / Martin Krygier -- Two Models of Anti-Communism: Populism, public intellectual engagement and lessons for the future / William Maley -- Cold War Thinking: Dealing with our shibboleths / Mark Aarons -- Cold War Intellectuals and the Impasse in Social-Democratic Thought / Jean Curthoys -- From the Holocaust to Communism and Universalism: A triptych for Rob Manne / Peter Beilharz -- The Holocaust as Fiction: From Andrzej Wajda's Korczak to Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds / Stefan Auer -- Contributors.
