Australia's History under Howard, 1996-2007
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9757801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Bonnell (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), Andrew G Bonnell (0000-0001-6216-5845, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Martin Crotty (0000-0002-7153-278X, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 617 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-165 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716207310818 |
| OpenAlex | W2162590679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article argues that since the election of his Coalition government in 1996, John Howard and his conservative allies in government and the media have waged a long campaign to influence the representation and public understanding of Australian history. They have sought to play down the historical harm done to Indigenous Australians and to emphasize more affirming stories of the rise of a new, democratic nation. The conservatives' waging of the “history wars” has been motivated by neoconservative ideology imported from the United States, the political interests of the Coalition government, and the personal background and convictions of the prime minister. Despite sustained criticism of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as well as the National Museum of Australia and many academic historians, and despite attempts to institute a national history curriculum, this article concludes that the history wars, for all their smoke and fury, have had only transient effects on the practice of Australian history
Corporation · Democracy · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Indigenous · Media studies · Political history · Political science · Politics · Public history · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Public Administration
Talking About History
Politicians Using History
Was the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission an act of dispossession
Straddling the divide
Australian national identity
The Making History initiative and Australian popular history
History and governmentality in the Australian citizenship test
Howard's End
Tribal-State Relations in the Anglosphere
Hosting and Human Rights
Higher education as a filter
Myths, Truths and Arguments
“No Sensible Comparison”? The Place of the Holocaust in Australia's History Wars
Prisons as Spaces of Friendships in Apartheid South Africa
Reflections by a target of a media witch hunt
Howard's Methodism
An Australian “Historikerstreit” ? Review Article
The killing of history
Broken Circles
Teaching the Nation
Colonial Ambition
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |