The March of Patriots The Struggle for Modern Australia

by Kelly, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780522857382
• ISBN10: 0522857388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

The March of Patriots is the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia. It sees Keating and Howard as conviction politicians, tribal warriors and national interest patriots. Divided by belief, temperament and party, they were united by generation, city and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalised age. This book is about the making of policy and the uses of power. It captures the authentic nature of Australian politics as distinct from the polemics advanced by both sides. Its focus is how Keating and Howard as Prime Ministers altered the nation's direction, redefined their parties and struggled over Australia's new economic, social, cultural and foreign policy agendas. A sequel to Paul Kelly's best-selling The End of Certainty, it is based on more than 100 interviews with the two key players, politicians, advisers and public servants. It relies heavily on "on the record" disclosures and new documents from the period. Its theme is that Keating and Howard, as rivals and unrecognised collaborators, are best seen together, and that their legacy is impressive, contradictory and incomplete.

Author Biography

Paul Kelly is editor-at-large of the Australian. He is the former editor-in-chief and he has spent two decades in the Canberra Press Gallery. He is the author of 100 Years: The Australian Story, The End of Certainty, The Hawke Ascendancy, November 1975, Paradise Divided, and The Unmaking of Gough.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The March of Patriots	p. 1
Two Men	p. 7
The Keating Miracle: Back From The Dead
A New Leadership	p. 33
Big-bang Liberalism	p. 43
The Price of Survival	p. 54
Keating Launches the Culture War	p. 65
The Death of Neo-liberalism	p. 75
The Big Picture
Econocrats and Bleeding Hearts	p. 91
The Open Economy	p. 99
Empowering the Bank	p. 108
Towards a Competitive Australia	p. 121
Enterprise and Savings	p. 134
The Patriotism Puzzle	p. 148
Asia and America: The Grand Strategy	p. 159
Embracing the Republic	p. 177
Protecting the Borders	p. 187
A Fractured Reconciliation	p. 198
the Showdown: keating versus howard
The Betrayal	p. 211
Howard: The Final Option	p. 223
Howard's Battlers: The Crisis of Modern Labor	p. 236
The Howard System
A New Political Manager	p. 251
The Economic Model: A Story of Australian Exceptionalism	p. 265
The Mainstream Mob: Howard as Social Conservative	p. 285
Workplace Deregulation: The Final Crusade	p. 303
An Independent Bank and the Death of Inflation	p. 317
The Cultural Traditionalist as Populist	p. 328
Reconciliation: The Lost Opportunity	p. 341
The Crisis Of Legitimacy
The Perils of Pauline	p. 363
Confrontation on the Waterfront	p. 377
Escaping the Native Tide Crisis	p. 389
The Ghost of Billy McMahon	p. 403
In His Own Right: The 1998 Election	p. 416
John Howard Discovers The World
The Amateur with Attitude	p. 429
Global Follower and Regional Leader	p. 443
The China Shock	p. 452
Farewell to Poor White Trash	p. 460
Howard Unleashed
East Timor: The Turning Point	p. 481
Defeat of the Republic	p. 517
Surviving the GST and Avoiding Recession	p. 525
Tampa: The Ultimate Portrait	p. 541
The Seduction of Bush	p. 566
Brothers-in-Arms	p. 580
Integrity Overboard	p. 593
Election 2001: The Howard Consolidation	p. 613
Postscript	p. 628
Notes	p. 635
Index	p. 688
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