Abstract
‘Australasia’ refers to Australia and New Zealand, two liberal-democratic nation-states arising from British colonisation - beginning in 1788 - of peoples that we now call Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders and Maori. With Britain's blessing, by the early twentieth century, the colonists of Australasia had replicated Westminster's democratic model. However, the two dominions approached differently the enfranchising of indigenous people. After the Second World War, the United Nations (UN) entrusted the Australasian democracies to establish democratic institutions in Pacific colonies. ‘Democracy’ was among their colonising projects.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy |
| Editors | Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Pages | 245-256 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Edition | 2012 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780748653683 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780748640751 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Australasia
- democracy