Abstract
The closing years of the last century and most of those of the first decade of the twenty-first century will be remembered in the history of Australia as the time when the country lost its image of innocent carefreeness and wellbeing-an image that had seemingly always represented Australianness. This long-held identity was lost when the federal government of the period could have chosen to engage the country in a dialogue about ideas of difference, but decided instead to join the USA and the UK in a brutal war against what it labelled "the forces of darkness".
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Placing Psyche: Exploring Cultural Complexes in Australia |
Editors | Craig San Roque, Amanda Dowd, David Tacey |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Spring Journal Books |
Pages | 231-255 |
Number of pages | 25 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781935528173 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |