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James Curran, The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image.

Publication: Journal of Australian Studies
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: James Curran, The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image.(Book review)

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James Curran, The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 314, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850987.

'I don't suppose there is anyone in Australia, certainly no-one else who is still in public life, who has a greater love for Britain than I have ... Not many of my countrymen have a greater respect for Britain's institutions and traditions than I do'.

No, this isn't Robert Menzies or John Howard. You might be surprised (as I was) to discover that this speech was made by the Prime Minister who we tend to think of as the embodiment of 'new nationalism'--Gough Whitlam. The speech is just one of the many nuggets of political rhetoric unearthed by historian James Curran in his history of the ways Australian prime ministers since the 1960s have grappled with the problems of nationalism since the demise of Britishness as the cornerstone of Australian identity.

Curran starts from the premise that until the 1960s,...

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