Twenty years ago there was a fashion in American political science of putting together collections of articles under a generic title such as ‘Political Parties in Developing Nations’. As with so many other American fashions, this spread to Australia and the edited collection is now commonplace in the social sciences. The problem with all such collections, and it applies to this one, is th ... (read more)
James Jupp
James Jupp is a British-Australian political scientist who has published widely on the history of migration and immigration policy. He is the author of An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788 (2018) and from 1988 to 2012, he was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies at ANU.
At the August 1984 conference of Australian historians, the Public Lecture Theatre at Melbourne University was packed to hear a panel of distinguished colleagues discuss Geoffrey Blainey’s creation of the public debate on Asian immigration. Blainey did not attend. His mentor Manning Clark did, though he refused to denounce his most famous pupil. Surrender Australia? is largely the product of tha ... (read more)