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.
LinksAmy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deathsAlison 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#mtrhttps://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/comment
Paul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament HousePaul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaJohn Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 NewsJohn Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaGun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 NewsJohn Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party AustraliaGulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 NewsPort Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

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