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Article: States of Mind: Australia and New Zealand 1901-2001.(Book Review)
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- Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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edited by A. Grimes, L. Wevers and G. Sullivan (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, 2002, pp.v + 363, NZ$39 pb).
This book is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held to mark 100 years since Australian federation. This is a federation that New Zealand decided not to join, although the Australian constitution still contains an open invitation for New Zealand to become the seventh state of the federation in the unlikely event New Zealand should change its mind.
Some of the issues covered across the 21 chapters include the different treatment of indigenous groups by the two countries, the causes and consequences of trans-Tasman migration, ...