Australia Under Construction: Nation-building Past, Present and Future (Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG))

Australia Under Construction......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1. Nation-building in Australia: a discourse, iconic project or tradition of resonance?......Page 17
Why ‘Nation-Building’?......Page 23
Nation-building and the settler narrative......Page 24
An Australian story......Page 25
A nation-building doldrums......Page 26
From back burner to front burner......Page 27
The Rudd ascendancy......Page 29
Nation-building — a revival?......Page 30
References......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
1. National politics......Page 34
2. The Canberra bureaucracy and the federal structure......Page 37
3. Our national political culture......Page 41
Preliminary conclusions......Page 43
Acknowledgements......Page 46
Introduction......Page 49
History for the future......Page 50
Historical literacy......Page 53
‘Doing’ history in the classroom......Page 56
How do you learn history best?......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 59
References......Page 60
Introduction......Page 65
‘A capacity for independent judgment’......Page 66
‘The nineteenth century equivalent of city walls’......Page 67
Disaster and social change......Page 68
New white elephants......Page 70
Introduction......Page 73
Part 1 — Raising the ghost of Bradfield......Page 74
Part 2 — Bradfield’s ‘hydraulic dreaming’......Page 76
Part 3 — ‘First parch, then panic!’......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 84
The medium term fiscal straitjacket......Page 87
First myth — that ‘higher taxes are bad for economic growth’......Page 88
Third myth — that ‘the private sector is always a more efficient owner-manager of infrastructure than government’......Page 89
Fourth myth — that ‘government borrowing for infrastructure investment puts upward pressure on inflation and interest rates’.......Page 91
1. Is there hard evidence of neglect?......Page 92
2. Is the fiscal stance to blame for the apparent deficiencies?......Page 93
Seventh myth — that ‘running structural fiscal surpluses is good for national productivity’.......Page 94
Eighth myth — that \'the community prefers lower taxes and does not like the idea of governments borrowing’.......Page 95
A proposed new fiscal stance......Page 96
References......Page 97
Abstract......Page 99
The issues at stake......Page 100
The Commonwealth’s interest stirred......Page 103
Consulting the States......Page 105
The ‘Yellow Book’......Page 107
The funding decision......Page 108
Getting the program started......Page 109
Seeking State and Territory bids......Page 112
Selection of Area Strategies......Page 113
Getting implementation going......Page 116
The Phase 2 initiative......Page 118
Continuing activity and impacts......Page 120
Conclusions......Page 122
Funding Allocation, Victorian Area Strategies......Page 125
Objectives......Page 127
Area coordination......Page 128
Ultimo Pyrmont. (pp 107–117)......Page 129
East Perth (pp 203–212)......Page 130
ELIZABETH — Munno Para — Rosewood Village (pp 239–243)......Page 131
Launceston Inner City (pp 271–277)......Page 132
Appendix 4: Reviews of the Better Cities Program (list provided by Pem Gerner)......Page 133
Introduction......Page 135
References......Page 141
Abstract......Page 143
Introduction......Page 144
The Australian way of ‘doing’ communications policy......Page 145
The influence of history on nation-building concepts......Page 147
The persistence of the single national solution in the broadband era......Page 150
Lessons from Canada......Page 154
Reinvigorating federalism......Page 156
References......Page 157
Introduction......Page 163
The changing dynamics of opinion formation......Page 165
Three symptoms of a corrupted policy-making system......Page 167
Public trust and confidence......Page 168
Representational patterns......Page 169
The policy-making structure in practice......Page 171
An augmented system?......Page 176
Conclusion: is political change likely?......Page 181
New parties......Page 182
Executive initiative......Page 183
References......Page 184