Australian politics
Articles
- Parliamentary Medievalism: The Australian Magna Carta as Secular Relic
'This essay explores the ongoing importance of this medieval text Magna Carta, as a powerful legimitating symbol of parliamentary democracy, and an example of institutional…
1 November 2011 - After Libertarianism: An Interview with Michael Wilding
Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.
1 May 1998 - My Brilliant Career and Radicalism
Assesses and 'rehabilitates' the radicalism of My Brilliant Career, augmenting previous critical considerations of the topic by placing in the novel in the context…
1 October 2002 - A Mate in Publishing
Australia in 1972 was almost ready for the "It's Time" election when I took a job at Brian Clouston's Jacaranda Press. Two years before, Kath…
1 November 1994