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Percy Bysshe Shelley once described poets as the 'unacknowledged
legislators of the world'. If this is true, Australian political
scientists have shown curiously little interest in the role that
literary figures play in the nation's political life. Novel
Politics takes the relationship between literature and politics
seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a
classic text about Australian society. These authors bridge the
history of local writing, from pre-Federation colonial Australia
(Catherine Spence, Rosa Praed and Catherine Martin) to the
contemporary moment (Tim Winton, Christos Tsiolkas and Kim Scott).
Novel Politics unpicks the many political threads woven into these
books, as they document the social world as it exists, while
suggesting new possibilities for the nation's future. As political
commentators of a particular kind, all six authors offer unique
insights into the deeper roots of politics in Australia, beyond the
theatre of parliament and out into the wider social world, as
imagined by its dreamers and criticised by its most incisive
discontents.
Percy Bysshe Shelley once described poets as the 'unacknowledged
legislators of the world'. If this is true, Australian political
scientists have shown curiously little interest in the role that
literary figures play in the nation's political life. Novel
Politics takes the relationship between literature and politics
seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a
classic text about Australian society. These authors bridge the
history of local writing, from pre-Federation colonial Australia
(Catherine Spence, Rosa Praed and Catherine Martin) to the
contemporary moment (Tim Winton, Christos Tsiolkas and Kim Scott).
Novel Politics unpicks the many political threads woven into these
books, as they document the social world as it exists, while
suggesting new possibilities for the nation's future. As political
commentators of a particular kind, all six authors offer unique
insights into the deeper roots of politics in Australia, beyond the
theatre of parliament and out into the wider social world, as
imagined by its dreamers and criticised by its most incisive
discontents.
Whitlam's Children is the first systematic study of the Labor and
Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience
in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty
interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior
ministers - the book asks a number of pressing questions about the
relationship: what do politicians from both parties think about
each other, and what issues unite and divide them; did previous
attempts at cooperation, particularly under Julia Gillard, deliver
successful government, and how did both parties judge this
experiment; and will we ever see a more lasting coalition on the
Australian left, to mirror the established arrangement on the
Australian right? At its centre, the book examines the minority
parliament from 2010 to 2013, the parties' first federal attempt
formal cooperation. Exploring both successes and failures, it
dedicates chapters to particularly stubborn policy dilemmas,
including climate change and refugee settlement. While the
interviews revealed a variety of perspectives, even within parties,
they uncovered a productive, though often hostile parliamentary
relationship; united by a series of shared values, but divided by
different approaches to parliament, politics and pragmatism.
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