Northern dreams
Subtitle: the politics of northern development in Australia
By: Lyndon Megarrity
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty. Ltd.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781925801187
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Aboriginal Australians; Government relations; Economic conditions
Description: "Northern Dreams brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards.  It also highlights the role that Australian politicians such as Gough Whitlam, Ben Chifley, Robert Menzies and Bob Hawke played in shaping northern development policies to suit their times. Northern Dreams is the definitive history of the politics of northern development in Australia"  - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Setting the scene; title: White Australia's empty North (1901-1941); title: Northern Australia in the 1940s; title: The politics of neglect in a time of prosperity; title: Northern Development in the Whitlam Era; title: Northern peaks and troughs (1975-2013); title: Still dreaming.