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The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this country.Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking

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Alarmist stories about Australia's relationship with China, and concerns about whether China is plotting to take control, insidiously or overtly, are regular front-page news. Historian James Curran explores this crucial and complicated relationship through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing.

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A new interest in media organisations is making itself felt, as more attention is paid to the influences which shape what is produced and distributed by the media. This book argues that previous work has sometimes neglected the way in which organisations are influenced by the wider context of society.

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Talks about five fascinating prime ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard - and how they view Australia. This book explores the end of the idea of British Australia, and how successive prime ministers have attempted to assert personal, and often competing, visions of Australian nationalism in its place.

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An illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity that documents how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people. The Unknown Nation unravels the origins, influence and implications of our hesitant coming of age.

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