Australian Journal of Politics and History

Papers
(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Politics and History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality12
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20254
Northern Territory July to December 20244
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20254
‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History. By BainAttwood (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023), pp. xiv + 288. 59.99 NZD (hb)3
South Australia January to June 20223
No Bullshit!: Balibo 1976 and Bob Hawke's Diplomatic Masterclass3
Australia and Vietnam: The 50‐Year Legacy Introduction3
Has Politics Become More Professional? Career and Legislative Professionalisation in the Australian Parliament Since 19502
History, Social Science, and Public Policy: Reflections on Hugh Stretton's Thought2
Review of Telling Tennant's Story. The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by DeanAshenden.2
Decolonising Politics and International Relations Classrooms: Reflections from the “Field”2
Tasmania January to June 20252
Political Chronicle: July–December 20252
Democratising Collective Memory Through Forensic Exhumations in Spain2
South Australia July to December 20222
Aboriginal Self‐determination, Land Rights, and Recognition in the Whitlam Era: Laying Groundwork for Power Sharing and Representation2
Is Spain Different? The Tamed Memory of the Spanish Civil War and the Limits of Spain's National Self‐Image (2008–10)2
Living Under Aboriginal Exemption: Negotiating State Governments' Policies and Practices2
The War Game: Australia's War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq. By DavidHorner (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. x + 464. ISBN 978 1 76106 595 8. AU$38.37 (pb).2
“Never Look Back, Always Look Forward”: The Early Life of Nancy Power2
People Power: How Australian Referendums Are Lost and Won. By GeorgeWilliams and DavidHume (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2024), pp. 368. $49.99 (pb)2
Can Law Manufacture a Party System? The Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Experience with Party‐Strengthening Legislation2
“Politics Are Quite Beneath the Concern of the Average Billjim”: Politics and the First World War Anzacs, 1914–19182
Striking Ore: the Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara. By AlexisVassiley (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2025), pp. 288. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781923192218.1
A New Perspective on Motivations Behind Chinese Overseas Investment: A Case Study on the Darwin Port Deal1
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20241
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20221
Telling the Truth About Empire? A Word on Methodology1
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New South Wales: July–December 20251
From Welfarist Support for Vulnerable Groups to a Social Justice Perspective: The Australian Council of Social Service and the Construction of Poverty, 1956–751
Testing the Bonds: Franco‐Russian Alliance and the First Sino‐Japanese War1
Sport, Identity, and Self‐Determination: Aboriginal Rugby League in Brisbane after the Second World War1
Local and Contextual: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women1
Uncomfortable Echoes: Blackfishing First Nations Trauma During COVID‐191
Palestinian Political Prisoners: Hunger Strikes and the Battle for Dignity1
Western Australia July to December 20241
“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–19731
Whatever Happened to the Australian Role in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership?1
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Mean Streak. By Rick Morton, ISBN 978 1 6580 7 (Harper Collins, 2024), 498 pp. $36.00 (paperback)1
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Queensland January to June 20251
“I Was Known to be a G**k Lover”: Histories of Asian–Australian War Bride Marriages During the Vietnam War1
Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years1
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. By KateAuty. La Trobe University Press, 2023. AU$34.99(pb).1
A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy1
Edges of Empire: The Politics of Immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020. By Francis L.Collins, AlanGamlen, and NeilVallelly, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2025. ix + 331 pp. 1
A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars. By RobertManne, Melbourne: La Trobe University Press in Conjunction with Black Inc. 2024. pp. x + 486. $A45.00 (HB)1
Men and Women of Australia: Administering Whitlam's Re‐Imagined Subject1
Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy. Edited by SarahMurray and LachlanUmbers. London: Anthem Press, 2025, pp. x + 218. £80 (HB); £25 (eBook).1
Pathway to Power: Shifts in Electoral Support for the Australian Labor Party Between the 1966 and 1969 Federal Elections1
Landslide: The 2025 Australian Federal ElectionBy MarianSawer, JillSheppard, and JohnWarhurst (eds.), Canberra: ANU Press, 2026. xxiii + 470 pp. $79.95 ( paperback 1
Policy Advice and Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea1
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 20231
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“Government by Inspection”: Australian Rule in the “Forgotten West” of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1960–731
All Containment and No Engagement: Australia's Contemporary Policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea1
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Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–19751
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning. By StuartMacintyre (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. xiv + 498, 49 b&w photographs, AU$49.99 (hb).0
East Timor in Australia–Indonesia Relations, 1974–830
Australia: A History. By TonyAbbott (Harper Collins, 2025), pp. 1–418. $49.99 (HB) ISBN 978 1 4607 6829 7.The Shortest History of Australia. By MarkMcKenna (Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Books Pt0
The Post‐War Australian Objective in Papua‐New Guinea: Liberal Ambition or Colonial Control?0
Australian Capital Territory0
Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building, and Integration. By YianniCartledge, Sydney: Anthem Press, 2026. xx + 167 pp. $160 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐83‐9995670
Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy0
State Sovereignty and Private Military and Security Companies in Australia0
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism. By SheltonStromquist (London & New York: Verso Press, 2023), pp. xii + 867. $US80(hb)0
Conserving the Councillor: A Case for Widespread Local Officeholding0
South Australia January to June 20250
Exposure to Campaign and Partisan Voting: The Moderating Roles of Voters' Political Predispositions0
A Her‐Storical Biography and Finding Family History Through the Archives0
Victoria July to December 20230
Whitlam's Economic (Inter)Nationalism0
Using Numerical Anomalies to Test for Fraud in Colonial New South Wales Elections0
Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By FrankBongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781760640095.0
From Georges Sorel to Peter Costello: Peter Coleman and the Making of Australian Liberal Conservatism0
Nationalism at Bay: The Chinese Nationalist Policy towards Hong Kong, 1946–19490
Broken Spear: The Untold Story of Black Tom Birch, The Man who Sparked Australia's Bloodiest War. By RobertCox (Mile End SA: Wakefield Press, 2021), pp. xxi + 299. AU$39.95 (pb).0
Slavic Reciprocity and Greek‐Cypriot Enosis as the Nineteenth‐Century Forms of the Law of Progress0
Rights or Resources? The Australian Mining Industry Council's Campaign against Aboriginal Land Rights and the (Dis)Illusion of Equality, 1975–19830
Tasmania July to December 20230
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20230
Northern Territory Political Chronicles: July–December 20250
Unlearning the Discipline: Decolonising International Relations Through Pedagogy and Praxis0
Miss(ed) Representation? Gender, Policy Content, and Legislative Success in Australian Private Members' Bills0
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951: From Australia's Top End to Southeast0
Foreign Relations and the Diaspora During the Cold War: Australian–Hungarian Relations in the 1960s and 1980s0
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Revisiting the HMAS Swan Scandal and Histories of Sexual Harassment in the Australian Defence Force0
Exemption and Nyungar Letters in the West Australian Archives0
When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights0
The Burqa Ban, Islamophobia, and the Effects of Racial “Othering” in Australian Political Discourses0
Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice Referendum. By ShireenMorris (La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc., 2024), 254 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN 97817606452050
Victoria January to June 20240
Victoria July to December 20240
Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University0
The People's Guide to the Australian ConstitutionBy RosalindDixon and WilliamPartlett, Randwick, NSW Australia: UNSW Press, 2026. 134 pp. $19.99 (pap0
No Surrender from down under: The Australian Anti‐Irish Home Rule Movement, 1911–140
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens. By JennyMacklin and JoelDeane (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2025), pp. 276. $36.99 (paperback).0
Australia, Britain, and Alternatives to European Integration, 1960–730
New South Wales January to June 20250
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Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. By MichaelWesley. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023, pp. x, 310. ISBN 9780522879056 (paperback) ($400
Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism During the Vietnam War. By EffieKarageorgos, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2026. 312 pp. $49.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9780
Review Essay: Recent Histories of Water in Australia0
Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government0
“We, to Them, Are Their Heroes”: Narratives of Rescue in White Australian Veterans' Memories of the Vietnamese0
Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20220
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By DavidGraeber and DavidWengrow (London: Allen Lane, 2021), pp. xii + 692. 9 b&w images. AU$65.00 (hb).0
An Evolving Record: A Centennial History of the Economic Society of AustraliaBy AlexMillmow, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025. v + 199 pp. $49.95 ( paper0
Tasmanian Politics January to June 20240
Conzinc Riotinto of Australia — Foreign Ownership and Control0
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Queensland0
Indigenous Military Inclusion: A Settler Colonial Critique of the Regional Force Surveillance Units0
Religious Liberty and the Rights of White and Aboriginal Subjects in Colonial New South Wales: The Case of John Dunmore Lang0
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation. By RossMcMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023, pp. 626. $49.99 (paperback)0
Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election. Edited by AnikaGauja, MarianSawer, and JillSheppard. Canberra: ANU Press, 2023. pp. xxv + 432. Open access or $69.95 (pb)0
Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development. By LyndonMegarrity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd, 2022. pp. xv + 335, AU $49.95 (pb).0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20230
Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory0
Queensland July to December 20210
A Team of Five Million?: The 2020 “Covid‐19” New Zealand General Election. Edited by JenniferCurtin, LaraGreaves, and JackVowles (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024), pp. xx + 300. Print $70.00. 0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20220
Why Do Women Remain Under‐Represented in International Affairs? The Case of Australia0
Road to Ruin: The Howard Government, the Concept of Aboriginal Welfare Dependency and the Fall of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Scheme0
Queensland January to June 20230
Tasmania January to June 20220
History and Memory Between Europe and Australia: New Perspectives0
Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding0
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New South Wales January to June 20220
The Politics of Gender Equality. By Carol Johnson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. pp. 332. €49.99 (HB). Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64816-80
“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War0
Editorial Note0
Queensland January to June 20240
The Curious Diplomat. A Memoir from the Frontlines of Diplomacy. By LachlanStrahan (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2025), pp. xi + 596. $39.99 (PB).0
The Consultancy Conundrum: The Hollowing out of the Public Sector. LachlanGuselli and AndrewJaspan (editors) (Monash University Publishing, 2023), pp. 91. ISBN: 9781922979322 (paperback), $0
Fraser Government and Public Inquiries0
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Race Mathews: A Life in Politics by Iola Mathews and A Long March by Kim Carr, Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Publishing. 2024. $39.99 and $49.990
European History in the Shadows of Crisis0
Australia in the International Sphere 1901–1914: An Emerging Foreign Policy Capacity?0
History Wars. The Peter Ryan‐Manning Clark Controversy. By DougMunro (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), ajph12903vi +193 pp., colour and b/w illustrations. e‐book† and 0
Victoria January to June 20220
The Fraser Paradox: Reconciling Expansive Multicultural Programs with Neoliberal Health Policies0
Militarised Peace and Bilateral Relations in the Indian Ocean: Australia's Relations with Sri Lanka, 1972–19890
“The Old Colonial Power Can Stand Proxy”: The Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and the Politics of the 1980s0
Without “Bipartisanship” Have Referendums to Change the Australian Constitution Ever Succeeded? An Unnoticed Success, Several Near‐Misses, and the Struggle to Explain Why Referendums Fail0
Northern Territory January to June 20240
Another Form of Aboriginal Exemption — Employment as Protection Against Removal0
The Long Shadow of the Red Army Faction: How Old Explanatory Models Define Today's Terrorism Debate in Germany0
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Letterboxes and Loudspeakers: Compulsory Voting and the Transformation of Grassroots Electioneering in Australia, 1910–510
Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage0
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New South Wales January to June 20240
New South Wales July to December 20230
The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC , and Bringing Them Home 0
Western Australia January to June 20240
Australia and Japan's Return to International Society: Negotiating Allies and the Afro‐Asian Bloc, 1952–560
Military History Supremo: Essays in Honour of David Horner AM FASSA . Edited by JoanBeaumont and GarthPratten (Canberra: ANU0
Transformation of the Historical Narratives of the Second World War and the Decommunisation of Memory Policy in Ukraine0
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Australia's Pacific Mindset: Historical Foundations0
The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson's Visit to Australia and New Zealand. By AnnCurthoys (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing, 2025), pp. xii + 386. $39.90
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: The Founding Father of Czechoslovak People's Democracy0
Australian Foreign Policy Stability and Instability: Imperial Friendships and Crises from the Great Depression to the Fall of Singapore0
Histories of Fascism and Anti‐Fascism in Australia. Edited by EvanSmith, JaynePersian and Vashti JaneFox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e‐book A$48.59.0
Exemption: A Gendered History0
Book Review:The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By CatherineDewhirst & RichardScully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020) andVoices of Cha0
Battle of the Banks. How Ad Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan. By BobCrawshaw (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025), pp. xi +220. $49.950
Exemptions from Compulsory Income Management: A Short “History of the Present”0
The ‘Dog That Didn't Bark’—The Royal Commissions That Do Not Get Appointed: Royal Commissions and Non‐Decision Making0
Civil‐Military Bargaining in Early NATO Institution Building: The Long Shadow of Institutional Beginnings0
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Settler Colonial Strategic Culture: Australia, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere0
IanGermani, Dying for France: Experiencing the Soldier's Death, 1500–2000 (Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023)0
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Australian Capital Territory January to June 20240
“Actual Political Affiliations Are of Secondary Importance”: Communism and Women's Entangled Loyalties in the Australian Anti‐Nuclear Movement, 1945–650
Northern Territory July to December 20210
Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction0
Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20220
Tasmania January to June 20230
Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection0
South Australia: July–December 20250
Re‐Imagining Australia's Ocean Life and Territories in the Fraser Years, 1975–19830
Northern Territory January to June 20250
The Kerguelen Archipelago and Australian Security Anxieties0
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Northern Territory July to December 20230
Western Australia July to December 20230
Double Disillusion: Legal and Political Aspects of the 1974 Double Dissolution0
Northern Territory January to June 20230
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir. By JacindaArdern (Melbourne: Penguin Random House, 2025), pp. 352. $55.0
“I Let Him Have It”: Sex, Anti‐Americanism, and Criminal Justice in Wartime Brisbane, 1942–440
The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975. By JoyDamousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xiii + 347. $141.95 (HB)0
Western AustraliaJuly to December 20210
“No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia‐Africa Relations0
Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By MarianSawer and MariaMaley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).0
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Disability Policy and the Whitlam Government0
“Realignment”, “Dealignment”, or “Deviation”? Classifying the 2022 Australian Federal Election0
Honiara: Village‐City of Solomon Islands. By CliveMoore (Canberra, Australia: ANU Press, 2022), pp. xxx‐548. AU$99 (pb) and free download.0
Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”0
The Australian History Industry. Edited by PaulAshton and PaulaHamilton. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021. pp.viii + 361. $49.95. ISBN: 9781922669605.0
The Role of Family Networks in Holocaust Rescue, 1933–1941: The Case of Australia0
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The New Politics of Inflation and Economic Disruption: Unlearned Lessons from the 1980s and 1990s in Australia0
Revisiting the Anti‐Zionism of Sir Isaac Isaacs, Australia's First Native‐Born Governor‐General—and a Jew0
Political Tribalism in Kuwait: The Shift of Badū from the Regime's Political Ally to Political Opposition0
Seachange Migration, Outer Metropolitan Suburbanisation, and Marginality: The Electoral Politics of the Central Coast of New South Wales, 1949–20010
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An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice0
Endorsing Annexation? The Whitlam Government's De Jure Recognition of the Soviet Baltic States0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20230
“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–19710
New South Wales July to December 20220
Victoria July to December 20210
East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy. By SusanConnelly. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.0
Queensland January to June 20220
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Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke Government. By FrankBongiorno, CarolynHolbrook, and JoshuaBlack (eds.), Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2026. xix + 332 pp. RRP $39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐76‐1170
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The Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline. By IanKemish. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2022. AU$32.99 pb. ISBN: 9780702263491.0
Rural Bias, Electoral Malapportionment, and Regional‐Urban Social Cleavages in Victoria0
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Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution. Edited by MichelleArrow. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2023. Pp. ix + 318. $34.99 (Pb) $14.99 (ePub and PDF)0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20210
New South Wales July to December 20210
Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918–20 moment. Edited by RomainFathi, MargaretHutchison, AndrekosVarnava, and Michael J. K.Walsh (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. ix + 212.0
South Australia July to December 20210
The Road to Oligarchic Peace: Comparing the Antebellum United States and Ukraine0
Correction to “ Yubbi Yarning Circle Model : Collective Narratives and Cultural Expression in the 0
The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark. By AlexMillmow (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. xx + 396, 9 b&w photographs, €93,59 (hb).0
Tasmanian Politics June to December 20240
From “Modern Midas Mineral” to “Satanic Substance”: Uranium, Unions, and the Atomic Age0
Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia0
Representative Assemblies in Early Modern European State‐Building: Evidence from Four Experiences0
New South Wales January to June 20230
The Art of Opposition. Edited by ScottPrasser and DavidClune. Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, 2024, pp. 487. $69.95 (HB)0
Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis0
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