HSY2300

Twentieth-century Australia

Bain Attwood, Esther Faye and Andrew Markus

8 points - Two lectures and one tutorial per week - Second semester - Clayton, Caulfield - First semester - One 1.5 hour lecture and one 1.5 hour tutorial (3 hours per week)

Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have gained a knowledge and understanding of the main phases of twentieth-century Australian political and social history. Students should also be familiar with key concepts, including class, gender and race, employed by historians of twentieth-century Australia.

Synopsis A study of the major sources of political debate and conflict in Australia in the twentieth century. The topics include federation and the founding of the new nation; World War I, conscription and the ANZACs; right-wing political organisations; trade unions and Communist Party of Australia; 'the new woman'; the 1930s depression; the rise of the welfare state; World War II and new foreign alliances; family life and suburbanisation; post-war immigration and assimilation; anti-Vietnam war protest and the rise of feminism; the Whitlam Labor Government and its dismissal; and political realignment after the long boom

Assessment Document exercise (1500 words): 25% - Long essay (3000 words): 40% - Examination (1 1/2 hours): 25% - Tutorial participation: 10%

Recommended texts

Rickard J Australia: A cultural history Longman, 1996
White R Inventing Australia Allen & Unwin, 1981

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