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The Machine: Labor Confronts the Future

The Machine: Labor Confronts the Future


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The ALP is more than 100 years old and showing signs of age. It's time for a check-up. Where is the Labor Party now and where is it going? How successful will it be in the next 100 years? "The Machine" describes a party at risk. The Australian political context is changing; can Labor adapt? The collection of essays provides a detailed overview of the Party at national, state and territory levels; analyses Labor's structure to reveal a Party struggling with varying success to come to terms with policy and electoral problems; and describes how the Party's factional nature determines how controversial policy areas are dealt with. Who now votes Labor? Labor was once the "blue collar" Party, the Party of "the battlers". No longer? In the wake of defeat and the creation of new constituencies outside Labor's present grasp, the contributors to "The Machine" provide a detailed account of the Party as it confronts the rebuilding it must undertake if it is to continue to play a major role in Australian politics. Can Labor still boast a machine the envy of other parties, or is it yesterday's machine? Can Labor regain its lost supremacy?

Table of Contents:
List of contributors List of figures and tables List of abbreviations PART ONE: OVERVIEW 1 The future of the Labor Party - John Warhurst and Andrew Parkin 2 The Labor Party: image, history and structure - Andrew Parkin and John Warhurst 3 A quest for national rules - Clem Llyod 4 Who now votes Labor? - Clive Bean PART TWO: STATE BRANCHES 5 New South Wales: the microcosm of a nation - Marian Simms 6 Victoria: factional battles, realignments and renewal - Graham Hudson 7 Queensland: consociational factionalism or ignoble cabal? - John Wanna 8 Western Australia: picking up the pieces - Anthony Sayers 9 South Australia: declining fortunes and a 'new Machine' - John Summers and Andrew Parkin 10 Tasmania: reform and rebuilding - Marcus Haward 11 Australian Capital territory: diminished capital - John Warhurst 12 Northern Territory: idiosyncratic politics - Dean Jaensch PART

About the Author :
John Warhurst is Professor of Political Science in The Faculties at the Australian National University. Andrew Parkin is Professor of Politics in the School of Political and International Studies at The Flinders University of South Australia. The contributors are Tim Battin, Clive Bean, Nick Economou, Marcus Haward, Graham Hudson, Dean Jaensch, James Jupp, Clem Lloyd, Haydon Manning, Marian Sawer, Anthony Sayers, Marian Simms, John Summers and John Wanna.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781864487213
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1864487216
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Labor Confronts the Future


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