Table of Contents

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I CONTEXT

1. The racial imagination

2. Change in post-war Australia

PART II STYLE

3. The new conservatism and the naturalness of bigotry

4. John Howard, Leader of the Opposition, Prime Minister

5. The politics of paranoia

6. Pauline Hanson's One Nation

PART III MEANING

7. Interpretations

8. The role of chance in national life

Appendix 1 - Immigration intake

Appendix 2 - Confederate Action Party and One Nation polices compared

Appendix 3 - The electoral fortunes of One Nation

Sources

Select bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Shortlisted: NSW Premier's Literary Awards-2002; Community Relations Commission Award & Gleebooks Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism.

About the Author

Andrew Markus has researched and written about immigration and Aboriginal history for over fifteen years. Among his many books are The 1967 Referendum (with Bain Attwood), Australian Race Relations 1788-1993 and Governing Savages.