<p>Premier Chris Minns has made the State's acute housing shortage his number one priority, to the extent that it is the only policy area in which the Government has been notably active. The issue was given added salience by new housing targets adopted by National Cabinet in August. New South Wales will be required to increase the construction of new homes to 75,000 per year for the next five years, twice the current annual forecast (<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, 18 August 2023). Greatly increased high-rise development in areas with established infrastructure was the Premier's solution. Minns adopted an aggressive rather than persuasive approach to implementing his strategy. Over-development has traditionally been an issue that politicians have been wary of. Minns seems to have decided that the intensity of the current crisis has turned large-scale development into a vote winner, particularly with young people facing the prospect of never being able to afford to own a home. Turning up the rhetorical heat, he has stigmatised opponents of his pro-development policies as selfish “NIMBYs” (Not In My Backyard) who were “allergic to change” and unsympathetic to the plight of young home seekers. Minns also accused councils of using heritage listings as a tactic to prevent development: “They don't have the gumption to come out and say, well, ‘We don't want anyone else moving into our community and we certainly don't want any uplift in development’” (<i>Guardian</i>, 11 December 2023). He warned local councils that if they attempted to resist his planning reforms he would turn to the “nuclear option” to over-ride them: “We've got the powers inside the New South Wales Government […] to enact reform, to pursue housing targets and completions […] We don't need any enabling legislation to make that happen” (<i>SMH</i>, 27 September 2023).</p><p>Minns also decided, in spite of the damage association with corrupt developers did to Labor in the Eddie Obeid era, to ally himself closely with the development industry. He told a property industry lobby group that the “previous governmental attitude towards developers would be overturned from a position of suspicion and mistrust, to encouraging companies who engaged in positive, well-constructed properties” (<i>SMH</i>, 27 September 2023). Planning Minster Paul Scully told a property developers' group: “You may have noted we were the first Opposition in New South Wales in a long time — perhaps ever — who did not take a strong anti-development campaign to the election” (<i>SMH</i>, 5 August 2023).</p><p>The newly appointed head of the Planning Department, Kiersten Fishburn, whose brief is to lead the housing blitzkrieg, said that it was time to “take risks” and “prise the barnacles” off the New South Wales planning system. She added: “There is always the risk that as a consequence, some malfeasance will corrupt a bit of the system. But does the small risk outweigh the benefit of getting more market certainty? I would
{"title":"New South Wales July to December 2023","authors":"David Clune","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12976","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajph.12976","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Premier Chris Minns has made the State's acute housing shortage his number one priority, to the extent that it is the only policy area in which the Government has been notably active. The issue was given added salience by new housing targets adopted by National Cabinet in August. New South Wales will be required to increase the construction of new homes to 75,000 per year for the next five years, twice the current annual forecast (<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, 18 August 2023). Greatly increased high-rise development in areas with established infrastructure was the Premier's solution. Minns adopted an aggressive rather than persuasive approach to implementing his strategy. Over-development has traditionally been an issue that politicians have been wary of. Minns seems to have decided that the intensity of the current crisis has turned large-scale development into a vote winner, particularly with young people facing the prospect of never being able to afford to own a home. Turning up the rhetorical heat, he has stigmatised opponents of his pro-development policies as selfish “NIMBYs” (Not In My Backyard) who were “allergic to change” and unsympathetic to the plight of young home seekers. Minns also accused councils of using heritage listings as a tactic to prevent development: “They don't have the gumption to come out and say, well, ‘We don't want anyone else moving into our community and we certainly don't want any uplift in development’” (<i>Guardian</i>, 11 December 2023). He warned local councils that if they attempted to resist his planning reforms he would turn to the “nuclear option” to over-ride them: “We've got the powers inside the New South Wales Government […] to enact reform, to pursue housing targets and completions […] We don't need any enabling legislation to make that happen” (<i>SMH</i>, 27 September 2023).</p><p>Minns also decided, in spite of the damage association with corrupt developers did to Labor in the Eddie Obeid era, to ally himself closely with the development industry. He told a property industry lobby group that the “previous governmental attitude towards developers would be overturned from a position of suspicion and mistrust, to encouraging companies who engaged in positive, well-constructed properties” (<i>SMH</i>, 27 September 2023). Planning Minster Paul Scully told a property developers' group: “You may have noted we were the first Opposition in New South Wales in a long time — perhaps ever — who did not take a strong anti-development campaign to the election” (<i>SMH</i>, 5 August 2023).</p><p>The newly appointed head of the Planning Department, Kiersten Fishburn, whose brief is to lead the housing blitzkrieg, said that it was time to “take risks” and “prise the barnacles” off the New South Wales planning system. She added: “There is always the risk that as a consequence, some malfeasance will corrupt a bit of the system. But does the small risk outweigh the benefit of getting more market certainty? I would ","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 2","pages":"335-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.12976","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xiii + 347. $141.95 (HB)","authors":"Jayne Persian","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12963","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"155-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The House of Representatives election of 2 December, 1972, was a watershed in Australian political history. That election saw the Australian Labor Party terminate the Liberal–Country Party (LCP) Coalition's twenty-three-year hegemony and bring to office not only a different type of Labor government but a different prime ministerial style in leader Gough Whitlam. Yet, just six years before, Labor at the 1966 election had suffered a 4.30 per cent two-party preferred (2PP) swing and the loss of nine seats following Labor's lowest primary vote since 1934. Labor's dramatic reversal of fortunes in just six years therefore remains of enormous historical interest. But, given the 1972 election saw a modest 2.5 per cent 2PP swing to Labor, with the party seizing twelve seats from the Coalition and losing four back to the LCP, the 1969–72 triennium offers little insight into Labor's recovery. In that context, this article, via analyses of House of Representatives election results and public opinion poll data, explores the chronology, demography, and geography of Labor's electoral recovery to argue the 1966–69 triennium remains of far greater value when identifying exactly when, among whom, and where Labor began its pathway to power.
{"title":"Pathway to Power: Shifts in Electoral Support for the Australian Labor Party Between the 1966 and 1969 Federal Elections","authors":"Paul D. Williams","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12962","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajph.12962","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The House of Representatives election of 2 December, 1972, was a watershed in Australian political history. That election saw the Australian Labor Party terminate the Liberal–Country Party (LCP) Coalition's twenty-three-year hegemony and bring to office not only a different type of Labor government but a different prime ministerial style in leader Gough Whitlam. Yet, just six years before, Labor at the 1966 election had suffered a 4.30 per cent two-party preferred (2PP) swing and the loss of nine seats following Labor's lowest primary vote since 1934. Labor's dramatic reversal of fortunes in just six years therefore remains of enormous historical interest. But, given the 1972 election saw a modest 2.5 per cent 2PP swing to Labor, with the party seizing twelve seats from the Coalition and losing four back to the LCP, the 1969–72 triennium offers little insight into Labor's recovery. In that context, this article, via analyses of House of Representatives election results and public opinion poll data, explores the chronology, demography, and geography of Labor's electoral recovery to argue the 1966–69 triennium remains of far greater value when identifying exactly when, among whom, and where Labor began its pathway to power.</p>","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 2","pages":"266-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.12962","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140249444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
<p>Against a background of low unemployment, Tasmania's government, the last remaining Liberal administration in the country, was buffeted relentlessly during the turbulent last six months of the year such that some commentators were predicting its demise. The Rockcliff minority government began and ended the period with 11 of 25 seats, but at one point was down to ten in the lower house following the forced resignation of Elise Archer, the Attorney-General. The Voice referendum failed against earlier predictions of success, and there were reports from major enquiries on child sexual abuse and on racing that required urgent action. The Greens leader, Cassy O'Connor, resigned and was replaced with Vica Bayley, who made an extraordinary maiden speech. The major parties combined to pass weak political donations reforms and secure public funding for their benefit. The new Attorney-General botched an attempt to deal with concerns arising from criminal charges made against a Supreme Court judge. There were also continuing issues with the proposed AFL stadium, a refuelling farce with the new Antarctic icebreaker, the death of the premier's father, and interference in a grant application by a minister. In December, the Labor party announced its candidates for the next election, leaving a former leader ignored while another was embraced and, to the relief of the Liberals, its rift unhealed.</p><p>Total unemployment for the period was steady at a low 4.1 percent in trend terms or a little over 12,000 people (ABS 6202.0). The rate was comparable with national averages.</p><p>The Attorney-General, Elise Archer, sensationally resigned her Clark seat in the House of Assembly in September after being dismissed from cabinet amid allegations of workplace bullying and sending inappropriate messages. In one leaked message, Archer described premier Rockliff as ‘too gutless to be leader’. In another message, she said she was ‘sick of victim-survivors’, which she said had been taken out of context. Her resignation followed an ultimatum from the premier, who gave her a deadline to either quit parliament or guarantee a vote of supply and confidence in his government. If she did neither, Rockcliff said he would call a state election (Guardian 4 October).</p><p>Amid the chaos, ex-Liberal John Tucker (Lyons) called for Michael Ferguson to challenge for the leadership as he was at risk of becoming ‘the Peter Costello of the Liberal Party in Tasmania’. However Ferguson rebuffed the call saying he was a team player, not a wrecker (Kevin Bonham 4 October).</p><p>Hobart City councillor Simon Behrakis comfortably won the Archer recount on 23 October, defeating fellow conservative Liberal, Will Coats 55.2 to 44.7 percent (TEC 23 October). Behrakis then resigned his council seat immediately, which was easily won by Coats.</p><p>The October national referendum on the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament was defeated in Tasmania as it was in other states, although two out of its five elec
{"title":"Tasmania July to December 2023","authors":"Dain Bolwell","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12969","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajph.12969","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Against a background of low unemployment, Tasmania's government, the last remaining Liberal administration in the country, was buffeted relentlessly during the turbulent last six months of the year such that some commentators were predicting its demise. The Rockcliff minority government began and ended the period with 11 of 25 seats, but at one point was down to ten in the lower house following the forced resignation of Elise Archer, the Attorney-General. The Voice referendum failed against earlier predictions of success, and there were reports from major enquiries on child sexual abuse and on racing that required urgent action. The Greens leader, Cassy O'Connor, resigned and was replaced with Vica Bayley, who made an extraordinary maiden speech. The major parties combined to pass weak political donations reforms and secure public funding for their benefit. The new Attorney-General botched an attempt to deal with concerns arising from criminal charges made against a Supreme Court judge. There were also continuing issues with the proposed AFL stadium, a refuelling farce with the new Antarctic icebreaker, the death of the premier's father, and interference in a grant application by a minister. In December, the Labor party announced its candidates for the next election, leaving a former leader ignored while another was embraced and, to the relief of the Liberals, its rift unhealed.</p><p>Total unemployment for the period was steady at a low 4.1 percent in trend terms or a little over 12,000 people (ABS 6202.0). The rate was comparable with national averages.</p><p>The Attorney-General, Elise Archer, sensationally resigned her Clark seat in the House of Assembly in September after being dismissed from cabinet amid allegations of workplace bullying and sending inappropriate messages. In one leaked message, Archer described premier Rockliff as ‘too gutless to be leader’. In another message, she said she was ‘sick of victim-survivors’, which she said had been taken out of context. Her resignation followed an ultimatum from the premier, who gave her a deadline to either quit parliament or guarantee a vote of supply and confidence in his government. If she did neither, Rockcliff said he would call a state election (Guardian 4 October).</p><p>Amid the chaos, ex-Liberal John Tucker (Lyons) called for Michael Ferguson to challenge for the leadership as he was at risk of becoming ‘the Peter Costello of the Liberal Party in Tasmania’. However Ferguson rebuffed the call saying he was a team player, not a wrecker (Kevin Bonham 4 October).</p><p>Hobart City councillor Simon Behrakis comfortably won the Archer recount on 23 October, defeating fellow conservative Liberal, Will Coats 55.2 to 44.7 percent (TEC 23 October). Behrakis then resigned his council seat immediately, which was easily won by Coats.</p><p>The October national referendum on the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament was defeated in Tasmania as it was in other states, although two out of its five elec","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 2","pages":"323-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.12969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140255307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War: Journals and Papers of J. A. Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911–1915. Edited by Cameron Hazlehurst and Christine Woodland(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) pp. xxiii+572 $AU423.95 (hb)","authors":"Douglas Newton","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"164-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ian Germani, Dying for France: Experiencing the Soldier's Death, 1500–2000 (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)","authors":"Frédéric Barthet","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"165-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism. By Shelton Stromquist (London & New York: Verso Press, 2023), pp. xii + 867. $US80(hb)","authors":"Erik Eklund","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"156-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020) and\u0000 Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021)","authors":"Yianni Cartledge","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"161-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia. Edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e-book A$48.59.","authors":"Andrew G. Bonnell","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"158-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008. By Hannah Forsyth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. xii + 294. $A146.32 (hb).","authors":"Judith Brett","doi":"10.1111/ajph.12966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45431,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Politics and History","volume":"70 1","pages":"159-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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