The Biographical Dictionary Of The Australian Senate (2) - Couverture rigide

Millar, Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0522850901 ISBN 13 : 9780522850901

Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate contains individual articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them.

This book presents a very different Australia from that revealled in Volume 1 of the Biographical Dictionary (MUP, 2000). The vision of Australia as a fair and equitable society, cherished so confidently at the time of Federation, now has to be put into practice in the face of the Depression and the Second World War. We see senators grappling with an increasingly mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems and the growing complexities of public policy. Political parties, strongly influenced by economic conditions and rural politics, divide and re-group, and as the six states recognise more and more the extent of Commonwealth power, the Senate asserts its constitutional equality with the House of Representatives.

For the most part, these senators are now little-known but, at the time, they asserted a marked individuality, as the caricatures on the endpapers imply. At this period of history, party discipline was not such as to suppress individual character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate is compiled and edited in the Biographical Dictionary Unit in the Department of the Senate, Parliament House, Canberra.

HARRY EVANS is Clerk of the Senate, editor of the seventh and subsequent editions of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, and author of other works on constitutional and parliamentary matters. As well as writing the introduction to this volume, and to Volume 1 of the series, he has taken a personal interest in the formation and development of the Biographical Dictionary.

ANN MILLAR was associated with the formative stages of the Dictionary in the early 1990s, and has been editor of the work and Director of the Biographical Dictionary Unit since the unit's establishment in 1997. She has written also on the role of women in the Federal Parliament.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melbourne University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0522850901
• ISBN 13: 9780522850901
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible