Episode 5 Part 2 - Australia at the End of History Barely Gettin' By

S2 E5: The 90s at Home


E5.2 Australia at the End of History




This week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aboriginal rights and the ensuing white backlash led by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.


Links
Amy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deaths
Alison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’, https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873


[Note: Chloe mistakenly said noone had been ‘arrested and charged’ over a death in custody. In 2019, murder charges were laid against two men, for the murders of, respectively, Joyce Clarke and Kumanjayi Walker https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/01/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008]


Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.


Boris Frankel, ‘Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'’, New Left Review, 1/221, 1997 https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour [subscription required]


Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/


Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.
‘The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712


Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtr
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/comment


Paul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament House
Paul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV Australia
John Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 News
John Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV Australia
Gun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 News
John Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party Australia
Gulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 News
Port Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

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