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Notes on contributors | p. vii |
Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past | p. 1 |
Indigenous Peoples | |
'They Would Speedily Abandon the Country to the New Comers': The Denial of Aboriginal Rights | p. 14 |
Shelley's Mistake: The Parramatta Native Institution and the Stolen Generations | p. 32 |
The Australian Environment | |
The Burke and Wills Phenomenon: Trial and Error in the Conquest of Australia | p. 48 |
Agrarian Ideals and Pastoral Realities: The Use and Misuse of Land in Rural Australia | p. 64 |
A Curse Upon the Land: Foxes and Cane Toads | p. 79 |
'An Architectural Monstrosity'?: The Cahill Expressway and Town Planning | p. 93 |
War | |
Naive Militarism: Australia's World War I Generation | p. 108 |
A Great and Impotent Friend: The Singapore Strategy | p. 123 |
The Enemy Within: Wartime Internment of Enemy Aliens | p. 139 |
Politics and Trade | |
'Another Singapore'? Australia Turns Away from Asia | p. 156 |
States of Mind: Federation and the Problematic Constitution | p. 170 |
Guarding the Flood Gates: The Removal of Non-Europeans, 1945-49 | p. 186 |
(Mis)adventures in Brinkmanship: Whitlam and the Governor-General | p. 203 |
Notes | p. 219 |
Index | p. 238 |
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