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EJANZH: Greason Article

By David Greason ** ‘The Party system of Government can play little part, if any, in the struggle for real democracy. In principle, it is the antithesis of democracy.’ Eric D. Butler, The Money Power versus Democracy, 1940. ‘A recent…

EJANZH: Smith on Clark

An Australian Democrat: The Life, Work, and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark. Edited by Marcus Haward and James Warden. Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania. 282 pp. Price: $A30.00 post-free in Australia, $A35.00 if posted elsewhere. Orders to:…

EJANZH: Davis Article

After its election in 1984, the New Zealand Labour Government of David Lange inspired the ALP Left, bitterly resentful of the Hawke Labor government’s abandonment of the party’s anti-nuclear policies, by its refusal to accept potentially nuclear American warships. Later…

EJANZH: Brockett on the Rural Crisis

Richard Brockett, University of Queensland I was drawn into the Country Party in my youth … In those days its principles, as expressed in its original policy booklet, coincided with the principles I had been brought up on. The infrastructure…

EJANZH: H. Carey, a Reply

A Reply to Richard Ely’s review of Believing in Australia, by Hilary Carey Religious historians are, in my experience, an exceptionally polite and generous group. In fact, during my current term as editor of the Journal of Religious History, I…

EJANZH: Frank Bongiorno, Reviewed by Robert Cherny

Frank Bongiorno, The People’s Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition, 1875-1914. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. 268 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. A$24.95 (paper), ISBN 0 522847382. Reviewed by Robert W. Cherny, cherny@sfsu.edu, Department of History, San Francisco State University.…