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51st State? (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Australian prime ministers since Harold Holt have all fostered
close relationships with the United States, but John Howard has
initiated economic and military policies that have bound the two
countries even tighter. As a result, many Australians now believe
that not only our sovereignty but also our very identity as a
nation is under threat, and that we are fast becoming America's
51st state. If this view is correct, it should be reflected not
only in our foreign policy but also in our domestic policies.
Indeed, the weakening of social safety nets, the privatisation of
areas long seen as government responsibilities, and the signing of
the Free Trade Agreement all point to the triumph of US-style
neo-liberalism. Yet, as Dennis Altman shows, the story is not so
simple. Even as official rhetoric immerses us ever deeper into the
US worldview, the resilience of the Australian social contract is
imposing real limits on the application of neo-liberal principles.
And, despite his enthusiastic membership of the coalition of the
willing, Howard has assiduously cultivated economic and political
ties within our region which, as the global balance of power
shifts, will become increasingly relevant. In this elegant and
sophisticated meditation on Australian identity, Altman suggests
that the tendency to attribute malign American influence to
everything we dislike about the contemporary world is the flipside
of seeing the US as the only model worthy of emulation, and serves
to conceal the deeper questions we face namely, how does Australia
imagine its future?
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