| Description |
125 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Quarterly essay ; issue 46 (2012) |
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Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 46
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| Contents |
Great expectations: government, entitlement and an angry nation / Laura Tingle -- Correspondence: 'Us & them' / Sophie Cunningham, Geoff Russell, Thomas Ryan, B.J. Coman, Mike Letnic, Stephen Romei, James Woodford, Anna Krien |
| Summary |
"Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the answer goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle shows, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider that has remained constant even as the world has changed. Now we are an angry nation, and the Age of Entitlement is coming to an end. What will a different politics look like? And, Tingle asks, even if a leader surfs the wave of anger all the way to power, what answer can be given to our great expectations?" --Back cover |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Cover title |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Political science -- Australia.
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Politicians -- Australia -- Public opinion.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- Public option
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- Public opinion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006218
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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| Author |
Tingle, Laura.
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| ISBN |
186395564X (paperback) |
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9781863955645 |
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