Introduction: The Crisis in Australian Political Culture -- Shaping the Nation: Labor's Consensus in Diversity -- Howard, Labor and the Revenge of the Mainstream -- The Politics of Identity and Australia's Culture Wars -- Gender and Australian Political Discourse -- The Increasing Challenge to Grand Narratives: Economic Liberalism and the Postmodern Republic -- Neo-Liberalism: New Ways of Governing Economic Life -- Critiquing Economic Rationalism -- Political Ideology and Discourse in the Age of Cyberculture: Government, the Economy and Technology