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GIRT BY SEA IBD

QUARTERLY ESSAY
10 / 2021
9781863951234
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Sinopsis

InáGirt By SeaáMungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard governmentâÇÖs treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history which have worked towards prejudice and those which have worked against it, ranging from CalwellâÇÖs postwar immigration policy to the recent revelationsáof beat-ups and distortions in the 2001 election campaign.This is a powerful account of how the government played on what was ultimately the race issue. In an essay which is, by terms, witty, dry and bitingly understated, Mungo MacCallum asks what epithets are appropriate for a prime minister who has brought us to this pass. He also raises the question of whether AustraliaâÇÖs contemporary treatment of refugees has anything in common with the sane and decent policies that have characterised the better moments in our history.

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13,29