Americanization and Australia

COVER......Page 1
PRELIMINARIES......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
‘AMERICANISATION’ AND GLOBAL POWER......Page 14
‘AUTHENTICITY’, ‘IDENTITY’ AND CULTURAL DIALOGUE......Page 20
WHICH AMERICA?......Page 28
AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH......Page 45
PHONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE......Page 47
GRAMMATICAL EVIDENCE......Page 48
LEXICAL EVIDENCE......Page 50
THE PROCESSES OF ASSIMILATION......Page 51
INTRODUCTION......Page 58
AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE AND AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY......Page 60
CONCLUSION......Page 69
SUBURBIA......Page 74
COLONIAL LAND BOOMERS......Page 75
A FEDERATED, ORDERED NATION......Page 77
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SUBURBAN SPRAWL......Page 80
THE LEADEN AGE OF URBAN CONSOLIDATION......Page 86
‘RACE’ / ETHNICITY......Page 94
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS......Page 96
ETHNICITY AND MULTICULTURALISM......Page 106
POLITICAL CULTURE......Page 120
THE BUDGET PROCESS AND THE SENATE......Page 121
THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION AND FEDERALISM......Page 122
THE JUDICIAL POWER......Page 123
THE COURT AND CONFLICT......Page 125
THE NEW POLITICS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S......Page 126
PRIVATISATION AND THE ATTACK ON THE ROLE OF THE STATE......Page 127
THE PUBLIC SERVICE......Page 128
AMERICAN POLITICAL MARKETING......Page 129
INTRODUCTION: NATIONALISM AND FEDERALISM......Page 136
MANAGERIALISM......Page 138
JUDICIAL REVIEW AND MANAGERIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 140
SPEECH PROTECTION AND THE DECLINE OF THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 146
THE AUSTRALIAN IMPLIED GUARANTEE OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND FEDERALISM......Page 151
CONCLUSION: THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT......Page 158
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS......Page 162
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: INDIVIDUAL VERSUS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING......Page 163
A BASIS FOR COMPARISON......Page 164
AMERICAN CONTRACTUALISM16......Page 167
AUSTRALIAN FABIAN SOCIALISM......Page 170
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS33......Page 174
CONCLUSION: STATES APART......Page 175
FEMINISMS......Page 179
FEMINIST STATES......Page 182
THE DESIRE TO REGULATE......Page 185
FEMINISM IN THE POSTMODERN PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 189
SPORT......Page 192
MYTHS OF AMERICANISATION OF AUSTRALIAN SPORT......Page 193
‘AMERICANISATION’ IN MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA......Page 202
CONCLUSIONS......Page 203
GLOBAL/AMERICAN; LOCAL/AUSTRALIAN......Page 206
RECOGNISING AND IDENTIFYING ‘AUSTRALIA’......Page 215
POPULISM RE-VIEWED......Page 217
FILM......Page 223
AMERICAN ACTOR, NON-AMERICAN CHARACTER......Page 224
IS YOU IS? OR IS YOU AIN’T?......Page 225
YES, I’M AN AMERICAN – SO WHAT?......Page 227
JUST A COUSIN OF MINE: YOU’RE LIABLE FOR TO SEE HIM HERE ANY OLD TIME5......Page 229
CAPTIVATING CAPITALISTIC COLONIALISTS......Page 232
AUSTRALIAN GRUNGE: US IMPORT OR LOCAL PRODUCT?......Page 241
US DERIVATION OF THE TERM GRUNGE......Page 242
GRUNGE IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT......Page 243
USEFULNESS OF THE TERM ‘GRUNGE’......Page 245
GRUNGE AND THE AUSTRALIAN ABJECT......Page 246
JUSTINE ETTLER’S THE RIVER OPHELIA......Page 249
ANDREW MCGAHAN’S PRAISE......Page 250
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS’ LOADED: ABJECTION AS SOCIAL PROTEST......Page 252
CONCLUSION......Page 254
ART......Page 258
REFERENCES......Page 273
LINES OF FLIGHT......Page 274
TECHNICS OF THE PUBLIC......Page 275
RHETORICS OF THE NATION......Page 276
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO......Page 277
INTIMATIONS OF SYMPATHY......Page 279
VIRTUAL EMPIRE......Page 281
NARRATIVES OF EMERGENCY......Page 286
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 290
INDEX......Page 292