Northern dreams : the politics of northern development in Australia /

Northern Dreams brings to life the passionate arguments about northern Australia's national significance and analyzes 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 Ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Megarrity, Lyndon, 1971- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, [2018]
Subjects:	Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > Government relations. Queensland, North > Politics and government. Northern Territory > Politics and government. Australia, Northern > Economic conditions. Australia, Northern > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Setting the scene
White Australia's empty North (1901-1941)
Northern Australia in the 1940s
The politics of neglect in a time of prosperity
Northern Development in the Whitlam Era
Northern peaks and troughs (1975-2013)
Still dreaming.