Australia identity, fear and governance in the 21st century

The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. In this volume we consider these recent challenges and changes and how Australians themselves feel about them under three themes: identity,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pietsch, Juliet, author (author), Aarons, Haydn, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, Australia : Australian National University 2012.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419967606719
Table of Contents:
  • Social attitudes towards contemporary challenges facing Australia
  • Keeping our distance: non-Indigenous/Aboriginal relations in Australian society
  • Australian engagement with Asia: Towards closer political, economic and cultural ties
  • Minority religious identity and religious social distance in Australia
  • Are neighbourhood Incivilities associated with fear of crime?
  • Terrorism and public opinion in Australia
  • Are we keeping the bastards honest? Perceptions of corruption, integrity and influence on politics
  • A new role for government? Trends in social policy preferences since the mid-1980s
  • Work choices: an electoral issue and its social, political and attitudinal cleavages
  • How do Australians search for jobs?