This Country: A Reconciled Republic?UNSW Press, 2004 - 160 sider Presents an argument for imagining the republic anew. Mark McKenna writes passionately, explaining why the two great symbolic issues of Australian politics in the 1990s--the republic and reconciliation--are linked intimately to one another. The only way forward is a reconciled republic, a republic founded on the full recognition of Australia's history. |
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Foreword | 7 |
Big Picture or Narrow Vision? | 23 |
Whitefella Dreaming | 47 |
Mother of Redemption or Agent of Oppression? | 63 |
The Only Way Forward | 103 |
A New Republican Platform | 119 |
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