Still The Lucky Country?
2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 54; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00396338.2012.690993
ISSN1468-2699
Autores Tópico(s)Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Donald Horne, The Lucky Country (Melbourne: Penguin, 1964). According to the OECD, 28 out of 30 OECD countries suffered a recession in 2008–09, apart from Australia and Poland. OECD Economic Outlook, ch. 5, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/19/22/45276571.pdf. See, for example, Richard Weitz, ‘Asia Overreacts to U.S. Military Pivot’, The Diplomat, 25 January 2012, http://the-diplomat.com/2012/01/25/asia-overreacts-to-u-s-military-pivot/. Australia is eligible for one of the two Western European and Others Group (WEOG) seats occupied by Germany and Portugal until the end of 2012. Singapore has backed Australia's bid, but Canberra's recent defiance of a ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee has harmed its chances of success; see ABC Lateline, ‘Security Council Seat at Risk over Deportation Stoush’, 25 April 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3489015.htm. Eric Ellis, ‘Finance Minister of the Year 2011: Swan Confounds his Domestic Sceptics’, Euromoney, September 2011, http://www.euromoney.com/Article/2897778/Category/1/ChannelPage/0/Finance-minister-ofthe-year-2011-Swan-confounds-hisdomestic-sceptics.html. A national public health system, called Medibank, was first introduced in Australia in 1975 by the Labor government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Whitlam's successor, the Liberal Malcolm Fraser, introduced a private component in 1976, and Medibank closed in 1981. The Hawke government resurrected a public system in 1984 as Medicare. Paul Keating, opening remarks to a press conference, Parliament House, Canberra, 29 November 1990. See, for example, Phillip Coorey, ‘MPs Told to Face Voters over Insulation Bungle’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2010, http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/mpstold-to-face-voters-over-insulation-bungle-20100225-p60p.html. It was David Alexander, Peter Costello's former press secretary, who first likened Australia's hybrid economy to the country's platypus, the egg-laying mammal that confused early naturalists and caused a rethink of taxonomy, in ‘Free and Fair – How Australia's Low-Tax Egalitarianism Confounds the World’, Policy, Summer 2010–11. Glenn Stevens, ‘The Challenge of Prosperity’, address by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) annual dinner, Melbourne, 29 November 2010. Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, ‘Resource and Energy Export Earnings at Record $190 billion in 2011’, press release, 8 March 2012. The A$75bn Future Fund is designed to pay the superannuation (pensions) of retired federal government workers. However, domestic superannuation provides no cushion against a downturn in commodities cycles, and the fund is too small to put the same downward pressure on the exchange rate that a larger fund might. The term was first coined by former Treasury Secretary John Stone in ‘Can Abbott Rescue Liberals from “Ruddbullism”?’, News Weekly, 20 February 2010, in a reference to the consensual ‘Butskellism’ that existed in Britain in the 1950s to early 1970s between Conservative leader Rab Butler and his Labour opposite Hugh Gaitskell. Nick Bryant, ‘Australia Booms Despite Septic Politics’, The Lowy Interpreter, 28 February 2012, http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2012/02/28/Australia-booming-despite-septicpolitics.aspx. Additional informationNotes on contributorsSarah Johnstone Sarah Johnstone is Assistant Editor, Online at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a born Queenslander. Kindle editions were used for this review.
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