Barron Field wrote in First Fruits of Australian Poetry (Sydney, 1819), p. 5; the naval officer who imagined a second Rome was J. H. Tuckey, Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Phillip (London: Longman, 1805), pp. 185–90. Justice Brennan’s judgement in the Mabo case is quoted in Tony Blackshield et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 446; Keating’s speech to the Aboriginal audience is reproduced in Mark Ryan (ed.), Advancing Australia: The Speeches of Paul Keating, Prime Minister (Sydney: Big Picture Publications, 1995), p. 228; Keith Windschuttle’s views on European settlement are in The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, vol. 1: Van Diemen’s Land, 1803–1847 (Sydney: Macleay Press, 2002), p. 3; Rudd’s statement appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, 13 February 2008.
Wandjuk Marika tells the Djankawa story in Jennifer Isaacs (ed.), Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1980), p. 76; Paddy Japaljarri Stewart’s ‘Dreamings’ are in David Horton (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994), vol. 1, pp. 305–6. James Bonwick wrote in Daily Life and Origins of the Tasmanians (London: Sampson, Low, 1870), pp. 1–2; Claude Lévi-Strauss is quoted in Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime: The Story of Prehistoric Australia and its People (rev. edn, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1994), p. 15.
The eminent historian who wrote of ‘indescribable hopelessness’ was C. M. H. Clark, A History of Australia, vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962), p. 77, quoted by Alan Frost, Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia’s Convict Beginnings (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994), p. 110.
The prime minister was Robert Menzies, quoted in R. G. Neale (ed.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937–49, vol. 2 (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976), p. 96; the national broadcast of his successor, John Curtin, appears in Digest of Decisions and Announcements, no. 39 (30 August – 3 September 1942), p. 17. The Spanish and Dutch disappointment is quoted in Glyndwr Williams and Alan Frost (eds), Terra Australis to Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 9, 103; Swift in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 554. Cook and Banks are quoted by J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook (London: A. and C. Black, 1974), pp. 148, 251–2, and J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962), vol. 2, p. 51. The instructions are in Maria Nugent, Captain Cook Was Here (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 73, and their meaning is elaborated by Alecia Simmonds, ‘Friendship, Imperial Violence and the Law of Nations: The Case of Late-Eighteenth Century British Oceania’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 42, no. 4 (2014), pp. 645–67.
Frost quotes the colonial surgeon in Botany Bay Mirages, pp. 91–2; Francis Grose, the commanding officer, appears in Alan Frost, Arthur Phillip, 1738–1814: His Voyaging (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 192; the instructions to Phillip are in Russel Ward, Concise History of Australia (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992), p. 55. The interpretation of dancing is that of Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003), pp. 92, 295; the rejoinder comes from Grace Karskens, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2009), p. 50. Watkin Tench, the marine officer, wrote on Aborigines in A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson in New South Wales (London: G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793), p. 135; his colleague is quoted in David Day, Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1996), pp. 65–6. Banks’ testimony to the parliamentary committee is quoted by David Andrew Roberts, ‘“They Would Speedily Abandon the Country to the New Comers”: The Denial of Aboriginal Rights’, in Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts (eds), The Great Mistakes of Australian History (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006), p. 15.
The Tasmanian historian is James Boyce, Van Diemen’s Land (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2009), pp. 45, 76. Arthur Phillip’s description of Sydney Harbour is in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London: John Stockdale, 1789), p. 47. Elizabeth Macarthur is quoted in Hazel King, Elizabeth Macarthur and Her World (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1980), pp. 21–2. Phillip’s views on homosexuality are in Gary Wotherspoon, ‘A Sodom in the South Pacific: Male Homosexuality in Sydney, 1788–1809’, in Graeme Aplin (ed.), A Difficult Infant: Sydney Before Macquarie (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1988), p. 94; descriptions of Aboriginal women are provided by Ann McGrath, ‘Aboriginal–Colonial Gender Relations at Port Jackson’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 24, no. 95 (1990), p. 199.
Sydney Smith is quoted in A. G. L. Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies (London: Faber, 1966), p. 77; Samuel Marsden in A. T. Yarwood, Samuel Marsden: The Great Survivor (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977), p. 54; Hunter in Russel Ward, Concise History of Australia (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992), p. 81. Blackstone is quoted by David Neal, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 6. The convicts making for China are discussed by Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay (London: Faber, 1987), p. 298.
King’s description of Macarthur appears in Stephen Murray-Smith (ed.), The Dictionary of Australian Quotations (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1984), p. 137. Macquarie is quoted in Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, p. 88, and Brian Fletcher, Landed Enterprise and Penal Society: A History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales Before 1821 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976), pp. 128–9. The treasury official is quoted by Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, p. 93, and the Spanish priest by K. S. Inglis, The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788–1870 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), p. 74. Marsden’s views on Maoris appear in Yarwood, Samuel Marsden, p. 164; Macquarie on Aborigines is quoted by D. J. Mulvaney, Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians, 1606–1985 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989), and Inglis, The Australian Colonists, p. 160.
Flinders’ suggestion of the name Australia appears in A Voyage to Terra Australis (London: G. and W. Nicol, 1814), vol. 1, p. iii; D. W. Meinig is the American geographer, quoted in Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997), p. 9; Palmer is quoted in Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 1: The Beginning (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 295.
Macquarie’s views on New South Wales are in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, p. 194; those of Bigge are in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, p. 99.
Mitchell is quoted by R. H. W. Reece, Aborigines and Colonists: Aborigines and Colonial Society in New South Wales in the 1830s and 1840s (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1974), p. 120. Events at Slaughterhouse Creek are described in Reece, Aborigines and Colonists, p. 33; those at Bells Falls by David Roberts, ‘Bells Falls Massacre and Bathurst’s History of Violence’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 26, no. 105 (1995), p. 615; the Rufus River exchange was narrated in J. W. Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia (Adelaide: Advertiser, 1878), pp. 140–1, quoted in J. J. Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia (2nd edn, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989), p. 12. Hobbles Danaiyairi’s saga of Captain Cook is presented by Deborah Bird Rose in Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2 (1984), pp. 24–39. Henry Reynolds suggested the pantheon of national heroes in The Other Side of the Frontier: An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia (Townsville: James Cook University, 1981), p. 201. The fear of Aborigines is quoted by Henry Reynolds, Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987), p. 10; the Aboriginal rejoinder is in L. L. Robson, A History of Tasmania, vol. 1: Van Diemen’s Land from the Earliest Times to 1855 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 212; the spot of blood appears in Henry Reynolds, This Whispering in Our Hearts (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998), p. 43; the report of the select committee is quoted by Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1987), p. 85 and Elizabeth Elbourne, ‘The Sin of the Settler: The 1835–36 Select Committee on Aborigines…’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 4, no. 3 (2003), p. 19. The secretary of state and the ‘settlement’ of Myall Creek are quoted in Reece, Aborigines and Colonists, pp. 41, 135, who also quotes the secretary of state on the Port Phillip Association agreement, p. 123; Bourke’s justification of pastoral leases appears in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, p. 132; the consequences of his acceptance of settlement of the Port Phillip District are treated by James Boyce, 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2011), p. xiii. The Colonial Office’s views on South Australia are in Reynolds, The Law of the Land, p. 106; the Governor’s proclamation and subsequent testimony appear in Robert Foster, Rick Hosking and Amanda Nettelbeck, Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001), pp. 3, 5. Mahroot’s lamentation is in J. P. Townsend, Rambles and Observations in New South Wales (London, 1849), p. 120, quoted in Reece, Aborigines and Colonists, p. 12; the account of Eliza Fraser is given in Kay Schaffer, In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 5.
Arthur is quoted by A. G. L. Shaw, Sir George Arthur, Bart, 1784–1854 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980), p. 71; ‘A Convict’s Lament on the Death of Captain Logan’ is reproduced in Russel Ward (ed.), The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1964), p. 37; ‘ferocious severity’ is quoted in Shirley Hazzard, Punishment Short of Death: A History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1984), p. 223. The ethnic diversity is documented by Kristyn Harman, Aboriginal Convicts: Australian Khoisan and Maori Exiles (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2012), pp. 1–2. Mary Sawer’s experience is discussed by Kay Daniels, Convict Women (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998), p. 195. Robinson is quoted in C. M. H. Clark, A History of Australia, vol. II: New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1822–1838 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1968), p. 55; Darling on Wentworth is quoted in K. S. Inglis, The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788–1870 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), p. 42; the secretary of state’s views on the end of transportation appear in A. G. L. Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies (London: Faber, 1966), pp. 288–9; The hapless Governor Gipps’ comment on the squatters is in Historical Records of Australia, ser. 3, vol. 21, p. 127; the report of the select committee on transportation is quoted by Amanda Laugesen, Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. xiv.
The description of Thomas Peel is in Geoffrey Bolton and Heather Vose (eds), The Wollaston Journals, vol. 1: 1840–1842 (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1991), p. 185; Wakefield wrote A Letter from Sydney and Other Writings (London: J. M. Dent, 1929). Chisholm is quoted in Margaret Kiddle, Caroline Chisholm (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1950), p. 83; ‘No Sunday beyond the Mountains’ is in H. R. Jackson, Churches and People in Australia and New Zealand, 1860–1930 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987), p. 24. Frank the Poet, ‘Farewell to V. D. Land’, is quoted by Noel McLachlan, Waiting for the Revolution! A History of Australian Nationalism (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1989), p. 73. Robinson’s and Wentworth’s verses are in Robert Dixon, The Course of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales, 1788–1860 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 43, 135; St Patrick’s day is described by Patrick O’Farrell, The Irish in Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1986), p. 44.
Hargraves and Clarke on gold are quoted by Geoffrey Blainey, The Rush that Never Ended (3rd edn, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1978), pp. 8, 13; Spence, Clara Morison, is quoted in David Goodman, Goldseeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994), p. 37. Kennedy and the Eureka oath are quoted in Noel McLachlan, Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1989), pp. 79, 96; the declaration of popular sovereignty comes from David Goodman, ‘The Gold Rushes of the 1850s’, in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Cambridge History of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), vol. 1, p. 178; the conservative historian was Henry Gyles Turner, Our Own Little Rebellion (Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1912); Lawson is quoted in Goodman, Goldseeking, pp. 7–8.
The British secretary of state’s announcement is given by C. C. Eldridge, Victorian Imperialism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978), p. 39; Deniehy’s satire appears in E. A. Martin, The Life and Speeches of Daniel Henry Deniehy (Sydney: George Robertson, 1884), pp. 53–4; Higinbotham is quoted in Stuart Macintyre, A Colonial Liberalism: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 57.
The Land Convention notice is recorded in Macintyre, A Colonial Liberalism, p. 32; Charles Thatcher, ‘Hurrah for Australia’, in Thatcher’s Colonial Minstrel (Melbourne: Charlwood, 1859), is quoted in Stuart Macintyre, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985), p. 30; Argus, 21 April 1856, on patriarchy is quoted in Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1994), p. 104. Henry Lawson was first published in the Bulletin in 1892, and quoted by Richard Waterhouse, ‘Australian Legends: Representations of the Bush’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 115 (2000), p. 219; Barcroft Boake was first published in the Bulletin in 1891, quoted in Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980), p. 188. The anti-Chinese editorial is in Andrew Markus, Australian Race Relations, 1788–1993 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994), p. 68; Governor George Bowen, writing in 1860, is quoted in Dane Kennedy, The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2013), p. 102. The phrase ‘workin’ longa tucker’ is a chapter title in Ann McGrath, ‘Born in the Cattle’: Aborigines in Cattle Country (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987); the Victorian Board of Aborigines is reported by D. J. Mulvaney, Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians, 1606–1985 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989), p. 148; Curr is quoted by J. J. Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia (2nd edn, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989), p. 17.
The English Scot was J. M. Barrie, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 34; Marcus Clarke, The Future Australian Race (Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1877), p. 22, appears in Australian Dictionary of Quotations; p. 50; Fergus Hume is quoted in Robert Dixon, Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 161. The examples of Australian speech are given by Bruce Moore, ‘Towards a History of the Australian Accent’, in Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (eds), Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2007), p. 100; and the derivation of Cooee comes from Graham Seal, The Lingo: Listening to Australian English (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1999), p. 14. Trollope is quoted in Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 2: Democracy (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 290; Harpur and Higinbotham by H. R. Jackson, Churches and People in Australia and New Zealand, 1860–1930 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987), p. 126. Higinbotham on education appears in Denis Grundy, Secular, Compulsory and Free: The Education Act of 1872 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), p. 91; Archbishop Polding is quoted in Patrick O’Farrell, The Catholic Church and Community in Australia: A History (Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1977), p. 151; The Age, 15 February 1908, on Syme, is quoted by Macintyre, A Colonial Liberalism, p. 83; Parkes and the Centennial cantata are in Graeme Davison, J. W. McCarty and Ailsa McLeary (eds), Australians 1888 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987), pp. 7, 24; the critic of the national pantheon is in K. S. Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the National Landscape (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), p. 32.
The shearer was Julian Stuart, Part of the Glory: Reminiscences of the Shearers’ Strike, Queensland, 1891 (Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1967), p. 99, quoted in Jan Walker, Jondaryan Station: The Relationship Between Pastoral Capital and Pastoral Labour, 1840–1890 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1988), p. 175. The president of Sydney Chamber of Commerce is quoted in John Rickard, Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, 1890–1910 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976), p. 13; Deakin in Victorian Parliamentary Debates, vol. 64, p. 1368 (2 September 1890); the military commander is quoted in Stuart Svensen, The Sinews of War: Hard Cash and the 1890 Maritime Strike (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1995), p. 191. Henry Lawson’s lament is in Poems (Sydney: John Ferguson, 1979), p. 51; John Barnes quotes Louisa Lawson’s motto in ‘Louisa Lawson’, in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History (rev. edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 383. Lane is quoted in Philip Bell and Roger Bell, Implicated: The United States in Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 29; Gilmore in W. H. Wilde, Courage a Grace: A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 51. W. G. Spence wrote in Australia’s Awakening: Thirty Years in the Life of an Australian Agitator (Sydney: The Workers Trustees, 1909), pp. 78, 220; Ryan’s criticism of parliament is in Dictionary of Australian Quotations; p. 232; Deakin is quoted in J. A. La Nauze, Alfred Deakin: A Biography (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965), p. 144.
The unique national type was described by Francis Adams, The Australians: A Social Sketch (London: Fisher Unwin, 1893), p. 165; Miles Franklin opened My Brilliant Career (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901), p. 2; Joseph Furphy Such Is Life (Sydney: Bulletin, 1903), p. 1; Lawson’s ‘The Shearers’ is in Poems, p. 178, and his letter to Emma Brooks, 16 January 1893, in Henry Lawson, Letters, 1890–1922, ed. Colin Roderick (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1970), p. 53. Mary Gilmore’s poem is quoted by Jennifer Strauss, ‘Stubborn Singers of their Full Song: Mary Gilmore and Lesbia Harford’, in Kay Ferres (ed.), The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers, 1890–1930 (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 114; the Labor leader was George Black, quoted in Dictionary of Australian Quotations, p. 18. The Salvation Army’s War Cry is quoted by Simon Sleight, Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne 1870–1914 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 147; comments on the Mount Rennie rape case come from David Walker, ‘Youth on Trial: The Mt Rennie Case’, Labour History, no. 50 (1986), p. 32, and Susan Magarey, Passions of the First Wave Feminists (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2001), p. 92; the WCTU is quoted in Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1994), p. 182.
Parkes is quoted by J. A. La Nauze, The Making of the Australian Commonwealth (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), p. 11; Deakin wrote of Federation as miraculous in ‘And Be One People’: Alfred Deakin’s Federal Story, introd. Stuart Macintyre (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995), p. 173; Barton is quoted in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, p. 197, and John Hirst, The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 5. The celebrant is John Hirst, A Republican Manifesto (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 35; ‘the greatest miracle’ appears in Official Report of the Federation Conference held in the Courthouse Corowa on Monday 31 July and Tuesday 1 August (Corowa: James C. Leslie, 1893), p. 25. Deakin on racial purity is in Creating a Nation, p. 192; Charles Pearson’s warnings are in National Life and Character: A Forecast (London: Macmillan 1893), p. 16, discussed by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008), p. 78; and Deakin’s additional observations are in Noel McLachlan, Waiting for the Revolution! A History of Australian Nationalism (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1989), pp. 172, 185. Deakin’s parliamentary speech is reported in Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, vol. 4, p. 4807 (12 September 1901). The Labor platform is reproduced in L. F. Crisp, The Australian Federal Labor Party, 1901–1951 (London: Longman, 1955), p. 271. The racist responses to northern Australia are quoted in Henry Reynolds, North of the Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia’s North (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003), pp. 145, 149; and the two Australias are analysed by Tim Rowse, ‘Indigenous Heterogeneity’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 45, no. 3 (2014), p. 303. Richard White quotes the Wattle Day League in Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688–1980 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1981); Deakin’s term, ‘independent Australian Britons’, appears in La Nauze, Alfred Deakin, vol. 2, p. 483.
Deakin on White Australia is quoted by Robert Birrell, A Nation of Our Own: Citizenship and Nation-Building in Federation Australia (Melbourne: Longman, 1995), p. 172; his views on New Protection are taken from Stuart Macintyre, The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 1: 1901–1942, The Succeeding Age (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 102–3; and Higgins is quoted in Stuart Macintyre, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985), pp. 55, 57. The commentator is Francis Castles, The Working Class and Welfare: Reflections on the Political Development of the Welfare State in Australia and New Zealand, 1891–1980 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985); the critical assessments are from Colin White, Mastering Risk: Environment, Markets and Politics in Australian Economic History (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 231, 223; and Paul Kelly, The End of Certainty: The Story of the 1980s (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), pp. 1, 13; the businessman is quoted in Ken Buckley and Kris Klugman, The History of Burns Philp: The Australian Company in the South Pacific (Sydney: Burns Philp, 1981), p. 259.
Cook and Fisher are quoted in Joan Beaumont, Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2013), p. 16; the instructions to the governor-general are in E. M. Andrews, The Anzac Illusion: Anglo-Australian Relations During World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 130. The British war correspondent and C. E. W. Bean are quoted in John F. Williams, Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 235; and Alastair Thomson, Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 53, 54. The testimony from those at Gallipoli in 1995 comes from Bruce Scates, ‘In Gallipoli’s Shadow: Pilgrimage, Memory, Mourning and Loss in the Great War’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 119 (2002), p. 8. The verse from the Western Front is by Frederic Manning, ‘The Trenches’, and the diary of an anonymous soldier is in Les Murray (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 109, 110–11; the exhortations of patriotic women are quoted in Carmel Shute, ‘Heroines and Heroes: Sexual Mythology in Australia, 1914–1918’, in Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 23–42. Mannix is quoted in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, p. 400; the formula for mandate territories is in Neville Meaney (ed.), Australia and the World: A Documentary History from the 1870s to the 1970s (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985), p. 272; Hughes is quoted by L. F. Fitzhardinge, The Little Digger, 1914–1952: William Morris Hughes, A Political Biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979), p. 396.
Bruce is quoted by Barrie Dyster and David Meredith, Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change (2nd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 115. The recollection of reading appears in Martyn Lyons and Lucy Taksa, Australian Readers Remember: An Oral History of Reading (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 34, and the tribute to Amy Johnson, in the Adelaide Advertiser, is quoted by Julian Thomas, ‘Amy Johnson’s Triumph, Australia, 1930’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 23, no. 90 (1988), p. 79; the Australian artist is quoted in Williams, Quarantined Culture, p. 175, the American State Department official in Meaney (ed.), Australia and the World, p. 367.
Wendy Lowenstein reports the unemployed activist in Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia (rev. edn, Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 1981), p. 177; the New Guard methods are in Eric Campbell, The Rallying Point: My Story of the New Guard (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965), pp. 70, 107–8; Lang and his supporter are quoted in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, p. 665. The feminist critic of the family wage was Lena Lynch, quoted in Marilyn Lake, ‘A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia’, in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Policies and the Origin of Welfare States (New York: Routledge, 1993), p. 387. Charles Hawker, the minister who resigned from the government in 1932, is quoted in Macintyre, The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 4, p. 299; Hughes is quoted in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, p. 399, Menzies in Cameron Hazlehurst, Menzies Observed (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1979), p. 138. The Day of Mourning resolution appears in Bain Attwood, Rights for Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003), p. 54; the anthropological advice came from A. P. Elkin, quoted in Russell McGregor, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880–1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997), p. 196; and Geoffrey Gray, ‘From Nomadism to Citizenship: A. P. Elkin and Aboriginal Advancement’, in Nicolas Petersen and Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 59; the ministerial statement appears in John Chesterman and Brian Galligan, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 148.
Menzies’ views on war are recorded in R. G. Neale (ed.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937–49, vol. 2 (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976), pp. 221, 256; and A. W. Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life, vol. 1: 1894–1943 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), p. 295. John Manifold, ‘The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF’ is in Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Peter Pierce (eds), The Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984), p. 119; Mary Gilmore is quoted in Denis O’Brien, The Weekly (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1982), p. 75. The head of the British Foreign Office’s criticism appears in David Dilks (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan (London: Cassell, 1971), p. 358. Hughes is quoted in Donald Horne, In Search of Billy Hughes (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1979), p. 123; Curtin’s new year message appeared in Digest of Decisions and Announcements, no. 13 (24 December 1941–3 January 1942), pp. 11–13; the protest against an ‘inexcusable betrayal’ appears in David Horner, High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, 1939–1945 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), p. 152; MacArthur’s division of labour is related in his Reminiscences (New York: McGraw Hill, 1964), p. 157. David Campbell, ‘Men in Green’, appears in Pierce and Wallace-Crabbe (eds), The Clubbing of the Gunfire, p. 130; Eric Lambert, The Veterans (London: Shakespeare Head, 1954), p. 137, is quoted by David Walker, ‘The Writers’ War’, in Joan Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War, 1939–45 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996), p. 149; Thomas Blamey, the commanding officer, is quoted in Mark Johnston, Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 86. The hate campaign is described by Lynnette Finch, ‘Knowing the Enemy: Australian Psychological Warfare and the Business of Influencing Minds in the Second World War’, War & Society, 16, 2 (1998), pp. 71–91; and Curtin distanced himself from it in Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, vol. 170, p. 521 (27 March 1942). Curtin’s exhortations are in Digest of Decisions and Announcements, no. 16 (19–28 January 1942), p. 13, no. 25 (5–22 April), pp. 15–16; no. 20 (30 August–3 September 1942), p. 20 and no. 45 (6–13 November 1942), p. 41. Peter Stanley coined the phrase ‘green hole’ and discusses it in Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds), The Pacific War 1943–1944 (Canberra: Army History Unit, 2004), pp. 202–11. The description of Evatt is in Dilks (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, p. 745, and the acclamation is reported in Paul Hasluck, Diplomatic Witness: Australian Foreign Affairs, 1941–1947 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980), p. 207. Curtin is quoted in The Oxford Companion to Australian History (rev. edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 169.
Chifley’s golden age and Depression memories are quoted in Stuart Macintyre, Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s (Sydney: NewSouth, 2015), pp. 201, 382.
The light on the hill is in A. W. Stargadt (ed.), Things Worth Fighting For: Speeches by Joseph Benedict Chifley (Melbourne: Australian Labor Party, 1952), pp. 61, 65. The population statistics come from Simon Ville and Glenn Withers (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 353. Calwell is quoted in Andrew Markus, ‘Labour and Immigration: The Displaced Persons Program’, Labour History, no. 47 (1984), p. 78, and in Australian Dictionary of Quotations, p. 36; the ministerial statement on public housing is in Andrew Spaull, John Dedman: A Most Unexpected Labor Man (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1998), p. 97. Menzies’ invocation of ‘the forgotten people’ is quoted in Judith Brett, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People (Sydney: Macmillan, 1992), p. 7; the Treasurer, Arthur Fadden, is quoted in Russel Ward, A Nation for a Continent: The History of Australia, 1901–1975 (rev. edn, Melbourne: Heinemann, 1988), p. 300. The economist was Heinz Arndt, quoted with the committee of economic inquiry in Nicholas Brown, Governing Prosperity: Social Change and Analysis in Australia in the 1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 123; Menzies’ eulogy to bigness is in George Seddon, Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 57. Bolte is quoted by Peter Blazey, Bolte: A Political Biography (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1972), p. 239.
The British high commissioner is in Roger C. Thompson, ‘Winds of Change in the South Pacific’, in David Lowe (ed.), Australia and the End of Empires: The Impact of Decolonisation on Australia’s Near North, 1945–65 (Geelong: Deakin University Press, 1996), p. 161. Carl Bridge provides the description of Evatt in Leonie Kramer et al. (eds), The Greats: The 50 Men and Women Who Most Helped to Shape Modern Australia (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1986), p. 242. Menzies’ warning of war appears in Neville Meaney (ed.), Australia and the World: A Documentary History from the 1870s to the 1970s (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985), pp. 598, 616; and Ann Curthoys, A. W. Martin and Tim Rowse (eds), Australians from 1939 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987), p. 32; his speech on the British Empire and 1950 diary entry on Egyptian nationalists are quoted in Allan Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life, vol. 2: 1944–1978 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. 152, 336; the verse appears in Glen St J. Barclay, Friends in High Places: Australian–American Diplomatic Relations Since 1945 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 128. Garfield Barwick, the minister for external affairs, is quoted by Peter Edwards with Gregory Pemberton, Crises and Commitments: The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia’s Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 1848–1965 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), p. 246; Holt is quoted in Barclay, Friends in High Places, p. 154; Menzies on communism by Frank Cain and Frank Farrell, ‘Menzies’ War on the Communist Party, 1949–1951’, in Ann Curthoys and John Merritt (eds), Australia’s First Cold War, 1945–1953, vol. 1: Society, Communism and Culture (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984), p. 115. Chifley’s views of the Movement are reported by L. F. Crisp, Ben Chifley: A Political Biography (London: Longmans, 1961), p. 394; the commentator on the predicament of the Labor Party was D. W. Rawson, Labor in Vain? A Survey of the Australian Labor Party (Melbourne: Longmans, 1966). Menzies’ view of Evatt is in Meaney (ed.), Australia and the World, p. 605; the Call to Australia is quoted in David Lowe, Menzies and the ‘Great World Struggle’: Australia’s Cold War, 1948–1954 (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1999), p. 115; Menzies’ Cold War rhetoric is in Meaney (ed.), Australia and the World, p. 605; the episode at the Lakeside Oval was recounted to me by Barney Cooney.
Menzies on prosperity is quoted by John Murphy, ‘Shaping the Cold War Family’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 26, no. 105 (1995), p. 550; the description of house building is in Peter Spearritt, Sydney’s Century: A History (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2000), p. 98. The American evangelist’s slogan is quoted by David Hilliard, ‘Popular Religion in Australia in the 1950s: A Study of Adelaide and Brisbane’, Journal of Religious History, vol. 16, no. 2 (1988), p. 224; statistics for engagement patterns and the advertising jingle are in Graeme Davison, The Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2004), pp. 52–3. The Australian expert on the family is quoted in Stella Lees and June Senyard, The 1950s (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1987), p. 83; the Olympic programme is in Graeme Davison, ‘Welcoming the World: The 1956 Olympic Games and Re-presentation of Melbourne’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 28, no. 109 (1997), p. 74. The chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was Philip Baxter, quoted in Patrick O’Farrell, UNSW, a Portrait: The University of New South Wales, 1949–1999 (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1999), p. 76. The radical nationalist works cited are A. A. Phillips, The Australian Tradition (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1958), Russel Ward, The Australian Legend (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1958) and Vance Palmer, The Legend of the Nineties (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1954). Calwell is quoted by Gwenda Tavan, ‘“Good Neighbours”: Community Organisations, Migrant Assimilation and Australian Society and Culture, 1950–1961’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 28, no. 109 (1997), p. 78; and his successor, Harold Holt, in Sara Wills, ‘Passengers of Memory: Constructions of British Immigrants in Post-Imperial Australia’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 1 (2005), p. 99; article on ‘The Australian Way of Life’ is quoted in Richard White, Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688–1980 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1981), p. 163. The minister for works was Nelson Lemmon, quoted in Andrew Hassam, ‘From Heroes to Whingers: Changing Attitudes to British Migrants’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 1 (2005), p. 79. The minister for territories, Paul Hasluck, is quoted in Tim Rowse, ‘Assimilation and After’, in Curthoys, Martin and Rowse (eds), Australians from 1939, p. 135; and John Murphy, Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies’ Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2000), p. 170. The American tennis player was Jack Kramer, quoted in Kevin Fewster, ‘Advantage Australia: Davis Cup Tennis, 1950–1959’, Sporting Traditions, vol. 2, no. 1 (1985), p. 59; the surf life-saving club statement is in White, Inventing Australia, p. 155.
Menzies is quoted by Stuart Ward, Australia and the British Embrace: The Demise of the Imperial Ideal (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), p. 155; and Frank Bongiorno, “The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the “Liberal” Tradition and Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 3 (2005), p. 415. The Liberal premier was Robin Askin, reported by Ian Hancock in David Clune and Ken Turner (eds), The Premiers of New South Wales. Volume 2, 1901–1925 (Sydney: Federation Press, 2006), p. 356; the Vietnam poem by A. D. Hope is in Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Peter Pierce (eds), The Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984), p. 197; the minister who drew the comparison with the London mob was Peter Howson, quoted in Greg Pemberton, All the Way: Australia’s Road to Vietnam (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987), p. 325; and recorded in his diaries edited by Don Aitkin as The Life of Politics (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1994), p. 631; his colleague who spoke of ‘political bikies’ was Billie Snedden, quoted in Peter Edwards, A Nation at War: Australian Politics, Society and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War, 1965–1975 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997), p. 266. Robin Boyd and John Freeland are quoted in Brown, Governing Prosperity, p. 159; and Alastair Greig, The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of: Housing Provision in Australia, 1945–1960 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995), pp. 149–50; Barry Humphries’ memoir is More Please (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1992), p. xiii. The connotations of ‘flatting’ are discussed in Seamus O’Hanlon, ‘“The Reign of the Six-Pack”; Flats and Flat-Life in Australia in the 1960s’, in Shirleene Robinson and Julie Ustinoff (eds), The 1960s in Australia: People, Power and Politics (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), p. 41; and Windschuttle is quoted by Shirleene Robinson, ‘The 1960s Counter-Culture in Australia: The Search for Personal Freedom’, in The 1960s in Australia, p. 131. Robin Boyd’s views on the Australian pavilion are in James Curran, ‘“Australia Should Be There”: Expo 67 and the Search for a New National Image’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (2008), pp. 81, 88; and Barry McKenzie is dissected in Anne Pender, ‘“Culture Up To Our Arseholes”: Projecting Post-Imperial Australia’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 1 (2005), p. 65. The government’s response to the Yolngu claim is given in Bain Attwood, Rights for Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003), p. 304; Bobbi Sykes and Gough Whitlam are quoted in Rowse, ‘Assimilation and After’, p. 142, 144.
The ‘faceless men’ allegation appears in Allan Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life, p. 460; Whitlam’s explanation of social citizenship was recorded in Gough Whitlam, The Whitlam Government, 1972–1975 (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1985), pp. 182–3; his call for a light on every desk is in Graham Freudenberg, A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam in Politics (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977), p. 82; the assertion of national identity is in James Curran, The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004), p.79. Multiculturalism and ethnicity are disentangled by James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 2–3, 83–5. Bjelke-Petersen’s trademark phrase provides the title of his memoirs, Don’t You Worry About That! (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990); and Whitlam’s response is quoted by Ross Fitzgerald, From 1915 to the Early 1980s: A History of Queensland (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1984), p. 255; Charles Court recalled Playford’s advice in the preface to Stewart Cockburn, Playford: Benevolent Despot (Adelaide: Axiom, 1991); the prime minister’s phrase is used by Laurie Oakes, Crash Through or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister (Melbourne: Drummond, 1976); Whitlam’s response to the dismissal is in Dictionary of Australian Quotations, p. 280.
Malcolm Fraser is quoted in Frank Crowley, Tough Times: Australia in the Seventies (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1986), p. 309.
Hawke is quoted in James Curran, The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004), p. 171; Keating by Kevin Davis, ‘Managing the Economy’, in Brian W. Head and Allan Patience (eds), From Fraser to Hawke (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989), p. 67; and in Paul Kelly, The End of Certainty: The Story of the 1980s (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), p. 212. The two economic historians were Eric Jones and Geoffrey Raby, ‘Establishing a European Economy’, in John Hardy and Alan Frost (eds), Studies from Terra Australis to Australia (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1989), p. 155. The ‘wets’ and ‘dries’ are discussed by Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 172–7. The financial journalist, Trevor Sykes, is quoted in Ian Macfarlane, The Search for Stability (Sydney: ABC Books, 2006), p. 52; and Keating on negative gearing in George Megalogenis, The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times (Melbourne: Viking, 2012), p.191; his comment on the recession is quoted in Kelly, The End of Certainty, p. 504. Keating posed the stark choice in John Wiseman, Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 43–4. The terminology of the new public sector management is drawn from Owen Hughes, ‘Public Management’, and Glyn Davis, ‘Public Sector Reform’, in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 477–80. Hawke is quoted in Kelly, The End of Certainty, p. 350. Dawkins and the head of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee are quoted in Stuart Macintyre, ‘Making the Unified National System’, in Gwilym Croucher et al. (eds), The Dawkins Revolution 12 Years On (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2013), p. 25. Kerry Packer and the Cabinet minister, John Button, are reported in Paul Barry, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer (Sydney: Bantam, 1993), pp. 310, 322. The comment on Bond appears in Geoffrey Bolton, Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826 (Perth: University of Western Australia, 2008), p. 181; and Bond’s lament is in Stuart Macintyre, ‘Tall Poppies’, Australian Society, September 1989. Beverley Kingston describes the transformation of Darling Harbour in A History of New South Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 226. The defender of tall poppies was John Gorton, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms (Sydney: Collins Books, 1980), p. 260.
Gareth Evans described middle power diplomacy in the account he wrote with Bruce Grant, Australia’s Foreign Relations in the World of the 1990s (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995), p. 344, quoted by Carl Ungerer, ‘The “Middle Power” Concept in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 53, no. 4 (December 2007), p. 547; the endless race was declared in a 1994 government white paper on employment, quoted in Wiseman, Global Nation?, p. 40, and Keating’s glosses on it appear in Kelly, The End of Certainty, p. 664, and Stuart Macintyre, ‘Who Are the True Believers?’, Labour History, no. 68 (May 1995), p. 155. Blainey’s statements are in Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004), pp. 86, 122; and the immigration statistics come from Eric Richards, Destination Australia: Migration to Australia since 1901 (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008), pp. 280, 282. Keating’s ridicule of basket-weavers was reported in The Age, 7 December 1981. Sally Morgan is quoted in Bain Attwood, ‘Portrait of an Aboriginal as an Artist: Sally Morgan and the Construction of Aboriginality’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 25, no. 99 (1992), pp. 305–6; the predicament of Charlie Perkins and the statement by Joh Bjelke-Petersen are in Peter Read, Charles Perkins: A Biography (Melbourne: Viking, 1990), pp. 212, 234. The mining executive was Hugh Morgan, quoted in Mark Davis, The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008), p. 48. The passages of the Mabo judgement comes from Garth Nettheim, ‘Mabo’, in Tony Blackshield et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 448; and Keating’s response from Paul Kelly, The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009), p. 198. The Redfern Park speech and the call for an outward-looking Australia are in Mark Ryan (ed.), Advancing Australia: The Speeches of Paul Keating, Prime Minister (Sydney: Big Picture Publications, 1995), pp. 32–3, 228.
Howard’s electoral rhetoric is discussed by Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 187–8.
Howard is quoted in Wayne Errington and Peter Van Onselen, John Winston Howard (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 137, 211. Ross Garnaut coined the term ‘Great Australian Complacency’ 2004 and explained it in Dog Days: Australia After the Boom (Melbourne: Redback, 2013), p. 82. Howard’s pre-election statements are in Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003), p. 136; the distinction between ‘core’ and ‘non-core promises’ is in George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade (rev. edn, Melbourne: Scribe, 2008), p. 277; and the Commonwealth Treasurer is quoted by Richard Leaver and Maryanne Kelton, ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 45, no. 2 (June 1999), p. 242. ‘Mutual obligation’ and its outcomes are noted by John Roskam, ‘Liberalism and Social Welfare’, in J. R. Nethercote (ed.), Liberalism and the Australian Federation (Sydney: Federation Press, 2001), p. 285. Peter Reith, the minister for workplace relations, is quoted in Helen Trinca and Anne Davies, Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia (Sydney: Doubleday, 2000), p. 171. The responses to the High Court judgement appear in Paul Kelly, The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009), p. 393; and Mark Davis, The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 208), p. 63. Howard’s views of national history are quoted in Macintyre and Clark, The History Wars, pp. 132, 201; and the minister’s response to the report on the Stolen Generations is quoted in Robert Manne, In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2001), p. 75. Howard’s address to the Reconciliation Convention is reported by Andrew Markus, Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001), p. 107. Hanson’s maiden speech is reproduced in John Pasquarelli, The Pauline Hanson Story (Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 1998), pp. 119–26, who also relates the television incident on p. 182; Howard’s response is quoted by Markus, Race, p. 101; Howard’s claim that Beazley lacked ‘ticker’ is reported in the ‘Political Chronicle’ of the Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 45, no. 2 (June 1999), p. 256; his speech at the Constitutional Convention is quoted by Steve Vizard, Two Weeks in Lilliput (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1998), p. 32; and the Governor-General is quoted in Tony Stephens, Sir William Deane: The Things That Matter (Sydney: Hodder Headline, 2002), p. 10.
The hard-headed approach to international affairs is espoused by In the National Interest: Australia’s Foreign and Trade Policy White Paper (Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 1997), p. 111; and the foreign minister, Alexander Downer, is quoted in Ungerer, ‘The “Middle Power” Concept in Australian Foreign Policy’, p. 549. The interview in which Howard appeared as deputy sheriff is quoted in Henry S. Albinski, ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 46, no. 2 (June 2000), p. 205; his claim to be simply getting on with the job appears on p. 203. The new approach to the United Nations is reported by David Goldsworthy, ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2001), p. 241. Tony Abbott’s rebuke is quoted in ‘Political Chronicle’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 46, no. 4 (December 2001), p. 562; and the Liberal Party’s president appears in the same journal, vol. 47, no. 4 (December 2002), p. 533. Peter Mares identifies Howard as the author of the Pacific Solution in Borderline: Australia’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa (2nd edn, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002), p. 127; the imposition of censorship is quoted by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson, Dark Victory (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003), p. 277. Peter Reith’s statement of ‘absolute fact’ is quoted by Patrick Weller, Don’t Tell the Prime Minister (Melbourne: Scribe, 2002), p. 3; the Liberal election advertisements are quoted in Marr and Wilkinson, Dark Victory, p. 277; and the prime minister suggestion of terrorist links in Mares, Borderline, p. 134. Howard’s address to Congress is quoted in Meg Gurry, ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 2 (June 2003), p. 228.
Howard’s qualification of the report of children overboard appears in Weller, Don’t Tell the Prime Minister, p. 2; and Laurie Oakes’ explanation of the ‘political dog whistle’ is noted in Marr and Wilkinson, Dark Victory, p. 280. Kennett’s statement is in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History (rev. edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 366; and Carr’s diary in Marilyn Dodkin, Bob Carr (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003), p. 234. The social commentators are quoted and their claims contested by Murray Goot in David Burchell and Andrew Leigh (eds), The Prince’s New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike Their Politicians? (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002), pp. 9–46. Alan Jones’ instruction appears in Chris Masters, Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006), p. 294; and his statement during the Cronulla riots is quoted by David Marr, ‘Alan Jones: I’m the Person Who Led This Charge’, The Age, 23 December 2005; Howard’s change is noted in James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 130. Howard’s declaration of an end to the discussion of national identity is in Errington and Van Onselen, John Winston Howard, p. 221. The trade minister’s recourse to amnesia is in Caroline Overington, Kick Back: Inside the Australian Wheat Board Scandal (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2007), p. 278. Barack Obama’s response to Howard appears in John Lee, ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 53, no. 4 (December 2007), p. 602; and Howard’s response to Al Gore is quoted by George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade (rev. edn, Carlton, Vic.: Scribe, 2008), p. 322. His confession on Aboriginal issues is in Judith Brett, ‘Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard’, Quarterly Essay, no. 28 (2007), p. 84; and Peter Van Onselen and Philip Senior, Howard’s End: The Unravelling of a Government (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008), p. 109. Megalogenis, The Longest Decade, pp. 345–6, records the origins and over-use of ‘working families’.
Megalogenis provides the description of Rudd’s ‘brand’ and quotes the Treasury secretary in The Australian Moment, pp. 322, 340. The review of the ‘emergency response’ and ‘closing the gap’ are discussed by Will Sanders and Janet Hunt, ‘Sorry, But the Indigenous Affairs Revolution Continues’, in Chris Aulich and Mark Evans, The Rudd Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2007–2010 (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2010), pp. 223, 226; Noel Pearson sets out his views in Up From the Mission: Selected Writings (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2009), pp. 140, 243. Rudd’s statement on climate change is quoted in Murray Goot, ‘The New Millennium’, in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Cambridge History of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 202. The chant of the rally in Perth appears in Malcolm Knox, Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC (Melbourne: Viking, 2013), p. 313; and Abbott’s condemnation of climate science in Paul Kelly, Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014), p. 247. Tom Clark reflects on Rudd’s jargon in Stay on Message: Poetry and Truthfulness in Political Speech (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012), p. 100. The abuse of Gillard is documented in Julia Gillard, My Story (Sydney: Knopf, 2014), p. 105; and Kelly, Triumph and Demise, p. 366; her response is in Triumph and Demise, p. 409. Abbott’s comments about Gillard’s marital status were reported in The Australian, 25 January 2011. Abbott’s declaration that Australia was under new management appears in Jennifer Rayner and John Wanna, ‘An Overview of the 2013 Election Campaign’, in Carol Johnson and John Wanna (eds), Abbott’s Gambit: the 2013 Australian Federal Election (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2015), p. 28; while the end of the age of entitlement is recorded in Kelly, Triumph and Demise, p. 488. For Andrew Forrest, ‘Forrest Wants “Seismic Change”’, The Australian, 12 February 2015.