Henry A. Tardent (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Wild Dingo Works, 2026
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Paperback. One Swiss who became a good Australian while retaining a strong love of his country was Henry Alexis Tardent who established a family in Queensland in 1887 . Tardent was intensely active in politics, agriculture, and literary activities. He acted as an adviser in the early 1890s to the drafters of the Constitution. In 1898 he became a friend and supporter of Andrew 5 who was the first Australian Labor Prime Minister. Around 1911 he helped the Government prepare the Act to establish a Citizen Defense Force. - Gough Whitlam (1975)Australian governments there was renewed interest in the 'story of Henry Tardent'. In her 1989 book The Swiss in Australia Wegman noted that Tardent "became the most influential Swiss settler in Australia due to his involvement in moulding the Commonwealth's constitution". Also lauded in 'ALP legends' (as reported by Whitlam in 1975), the problem is that no-one has previously gone to the trouble of detailing or more adequately explaining Tardent's contributions to his adopted homeland. So. to correct some newly arising 'misconceptions', we investigated Tardent's 'untold story' in depth - an inquiry focused on a request from the Swiss Alliance Australia to look at the question of Tardent's 'contributions to the drafting of a Swiss-influenced Australian Constitution' (and related 'model of democracy'). Our fascinating account here further documents the alignment of the Tardent story to the historical challenge of the modern Australian Society to overcome its enduring 'colonial cultural cringe' - including in and beyond the 1975 Constitutional Crisis and the 1999 Republic referendum result. This book describes and discusses some particularly relevant details and contexts of how Henry A. Tardent's initial and further ongoing advice to Sir Samuel Griffith and his concerned 'Qld group' (especially re: both the referendum and double majority rule 'democracy safeguards') was generally embraced in the 1891 Constitutional Convention. This was then developed and refined in further drafts (especially the draft presented to the 1897 Convention), before being the focus of successful 1890s State referendums prior to the 1901 Federation enactment. Tardent was perhaps effectively a 'founding father' also of some important related imperatives up to the end of his life - including both Australian cultural nationalism and multiculturalism simultaneously. And he was a significant pivotal contributor himself (as well as adviser also to such influential early figures as Andrew Fisher and Ted Theodore) in the foundational emergence of the Australian Labor Party. We further explore how and why Henry A. Tardent's story is perhaps more important today than ever before. This book investigates the 'legend' of Henry A. Tardent's contributions to the drafting of 'a Swiss-influenced 1901 Australian' Constitution' (and related 'model of democracy'). It also explores why this story remains important today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9781764488075
- Titre
- Henry A. Tardent (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Cameron Richards
- Éditeur
- Wild Dingo Works
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1764488075
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781764488075
Following the 2013 Swiss-Australia Declaration of Intent on a Strategic Dialogue, there was renewed interest in the ‘story of Henry Tardent’. In her 1989 book The Swiss in Australia Wegman (like Whitlam) noted that Tardent “became the most influential Swiss settler in Australia due to his involvement in moulding the Commonwealth’s constitution”. But no-one has previously gone to the trouble of detailing this claim. To correct some ‘misconceptions’, we investigated Tardent’s ‘untold story’ in depth – an inquiry focused on the question of his ‘contributions to a Swiss-influenced Australian Constitution’. Our account here further documents the alignment of the Tardent story to the historical challenge of ‘the modern Australian democracy’ to overcome its enduring ‘colonial cultural cringe’ – including in and beyond the 1975 Constitutional Crisis and the 1999 Republic Referendum result.
The book describes and discusses relevant (as well as ‘untold’) details and contexts of how Tardent’s initial and ongoing advice to Sir Samuel Griffith, A.J. Thynne, and their concerned ‘Qld group’ (especially re: referendum and double majority rule ‘democracy safeguards’) was generally embraced at the 1891 Constitutional Convention. This was then developed and refined in further drafts up to the 1987 Convention and also just prior to the 1901 Federation enactment. But Tardent’s advisory adaptations to the local context of not just the Swiss Federal Constitution, (but related models of democracy, national defence and ‘multiculturalism’) did not stop there. For forty years Tardent personally exemplified this in influentially advising key Australian politicians – especially in relation to the policy documents he obtained (and translated) from the eminent Swiss journalist, politician, and military strategist Edouard Secretan. He had befriended ‘Colonel Secretan’ after returning to Switzerland 1881 to undertake his national service with the Vaud Civic Militia. This is how (via Deakin, Fisher, Thynne and others) he came to also influence the early Australian national Defence Acts and especially its blend of military volunteerism and the 1911 universal training scheme.
But it was in his related journalistic, community, and also ‘cultural’ activities that Tardent made arguably more important contributions to Australia – including to the emergence of ‘the ALP’ as an internationally significant model of reform-oriented ‘social democracy’. In his 1923 book In Freedom’s Cause distributed by the ‘RSL’, Tardent influentially argued that Australia’s ‘all-volunteer expeditionary force’ in WWI had under Monash helped define the emerging national identity exemplified by the related ‘Anzac legend’. Tardent further promoted the idea that as an emergent ‘new world nation’ it was even more important that Australian democracy encourage a ‘robust civil society’ culture. In the 1920s Brisbane, Tardent’s artistic and multicultural model of ‘harmonising the city’ was supported by Qld Premier Ted Theodore – who he'd helped enter politics years earlier. And in addition to his later-life writings for French and Swiss newspapers (to explain the ‘emerging Australia’), he further uniquely and influentially promoted an emerging Australian tradition of literature, art, and ‘culture’ more widely grounded in convergent aspects of both nationalism and multiculturalism.
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