by Donald Horne
income tax 161
India 110, 244
Indonesia 91
Industrial Commissions 151
industrial groups 169–72
industrialization 134, 144, 201–4
informality, cult of 9, 19, 25–6, 35
Inglis, K.S. 56, 245
in-groups 67, 226, 227
intellectual climate 74–6
intellectuals 11, 35, 126, 177, 191, 209, 224–31, 242
investment, foreign 12, 106, 134–6
Irish Catholics 63, 91
iron ore 134
irrigation 146
isolation, intellectual 226
Japan 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 242, 244
journalists 219–22
Kane, J.F. 169
Kennedy, President 95, 98
Kennelly 170, 172
Kimberleys 53, 147
King’s Cross 16, 51
Knights of the Southern Cross 60, 62
Kristol, Irving, quoted 206
Labor Government (NSW) 151
Labor Party (ALP) 160, 161, 166–75, 177, 195, 199–201; Catholicism 60–1;
Communism 154, 155;
education 63–4;
trade unionism 151, 154, 156, 191;
White Australia policy 124
Labour, Department of 182
land ownership 64
landowners 64–5
landscape, country 54
language, Australian 103
Lawrence, D.H. 101
laziness 6
lead 134, 147
leisure, use of 27–32, 74
Liberal Party 64; education 61;
and Menzies 199–201;
White Australia policy 123
literature 69, 73–6
living standards 113
loan-raising 161
local government 161
London 94, 95, 104
long-service leave 153
lotteries 29
Macapagal, President 120
MacArthur, General Douglas 98
McEwen, John 196
McInnes, Neil, quoted 135
Mackenzie, Norman 77
McManus, F.P. 169
magazines 62, 72
Malaysia 120, 130, 244
male, Australian 19, 26, 78–9
manners 25
manufacturers, pressure from 191
Manufacturers, Chamber of 191
manufacturing 12, 101, 132, 133–7, 141, 142, 202
marriage 56
Masonic Lodges 60
materialism 17
mateship 26, 28
Meanjin 234
mediocre, in Australian life 37–41
Melbourne 44–5, 51, 61, 231
Menzies, Sir Robert 22, 96, 168, 174, 175, 177, 180, 181, 184, 187, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195–206, 240, 245; quoted 115
Methodists 52
migrant centres 82
migrants 44, 80–5, 104
Monk, Albert 155
motor car industry 190, 202
Movement, the 168–75
music 70
Nation 223, 240
national anthem 92
National Civic Council (NCC) 174
National Development, Department of 183
national planning 161
nationalism 9, 37, 93
naturalization 82
navy 203
New Australian 82; see also migrants
New Caledonia 129
New Guinea 89, 115, 129–30, 133
New Hebrides 129
New Zealand 87, 89, 95, 129
Newcastle 48
newspaper managements 189
newspapers 82, 94, 221–3
Nonconformist Conscience 58
North Korea 114
Northern Europeans 83
Northern Territory 49
novels see literature
Observer 31, 129, 223
occupation status 64–8
Oceania 129–31
O’Grady, Desmond, quoted 31
oil 134
Ord River 53
paganism 27
Page, Sir Earle 178
painters 226
Pakistan 120, 244
Palmer, Vance, quoted 234
paper industry 134
Parliament, Members of 159, 163
parliamentary system 162–6
pastoralists 144–6
patents 134
Perth 46–7
Petrov affair 171
Phillips, A.A. 227
picnic races 65
poetry 72
poker machines 5, 29
Poles 83
politics 191–3; Federal 157–62, 179;
leaders 20, 161;
parties 162–78;
State 160–2
population 12, 20, 43, 51, 104, 115; Aboriginal 114
poverty 55, 85–6
preferential voting 8
Premiers’ Conference 161
Presbyterians 56
Press, the 219–24
pressure groups 186–91
primary industry 143–8
Prime Minister, role of 165–6
Pringle, John 222; quoted 198, 222
professional groups 152
protectionist policy 136–7, 178
Protestantism 30
provincialism 104
public affairs, discussion on 218–19
publishing 73–6
puritanism 10, 28, 31, 231, 241
Quadrant 31, 124
Queensland 45–6, 65
Queensland Literature Board of Review 210
Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia 1835–1851 58
racism, in Australia 122–9
radiophysicists 225
religion 55–64
repatriation policy 20, 189
Representatives, House of 159
republic, case for 104–7, 165
research 135, 141, 145, 146
Reserve Bank 182
restrictive trade practices 138
Returned Servicemen’s League (RSL) 75, 188
Rowe, Michael 58
Russell, Sir Bertrand, quoted 10
Santamaria, B.A. 169, 170, 174, 199
scepticism 34, 36, 37, 39
schooling, and snobbery 67
schools: denominational 63–4, 213; State 214–16
scientists 85, 141–2, 146, 213, 237
SEATO 120
Second World War 49, 81, 87, 90, 97, 101, 114, 179, 202
Senate 159
sexual morality 56
sheep see wool
silver 147
Singapore 113
Sino-Soviet split 120
snobbery 64–8
soccer 82–3
social services 85–7
Soekarno, President 119, 120
Soldiers of the Cross 71
Solomon Islands 89, 129
South Pacific islands 129–32
South Vietnam 95, 205
South-East Asia 89, 114, 204, 207, 236
Southern Europeans 83
Spender, Sir Percy 205
sport 10, 28–9
stability social 8–9, 17
States, Australian 160–2
status symbols 29, 79
steel industry 134, 142
strike action 149, 169
Stubbs, P.C. 142
suburbanism 15–20
sugar industry 134, 187
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 71, 72
Sweden 134, 203
Sydney 16, 43–5, 50, 64, 68, 69, 71, 79, 235
Sydney Morning Herald 223
Sydney University 231
synthetics 144
Taft, Ronald 23
Tariff Board 20, 136, 137, 183
teachers 210–19
technology, attitude to 11, 36, 133–5, 140, 210–11, 233, 235, 237, 244
television 7, 189, 234
temperance movement 58
textile industry 136–7
theat
re 71–2
tourist trade, Alice Springs 51
trade 106, 143; between States 159;
Department of 181, 182
trade unionism 148–56, 191
Treasury 181
underdog, feelings for 21–2
unemployment 22
union officials see trade unionism
United Kingdom see Britain
United States, relation to 96–100, 104
universities 216; staffs of 62, 84, 209
uranium 147
Ustashi 83
Vietnam 207; South 95, 205;
War 114
Voss 99
voting 8
wage rates 151, 152–3
Ward, Barbara 12
West New Guinea 130
Wheat Board 187
wheat farmers 187
White, Patrick 99
White Australia policy 115, 122–6
white-collar workers 19, 151
Whitlam, Gough 175
widows 86
Wolfsohn, Hugo 121; quoted 158
Wollongong 48
women, Australian 76–80
Women in Australia 77
wool 131, 144, 154, 187
wool growers 144, 145, 187–8
working class, character of 18, 19
wowsers 55–9
writers 18, 62, 72–5, 227
Yugoslavs 83
zinc 134, 147
* Apart from military occupation, only the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Low Countries, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and New Zealand pass this test.
* About a quarter of first births appear to have been conceived before marriage and nearly 7 per cent more are illegitimate.
* This motto had been refined to ‘Australia for the White Man’ when, on becoming editor of the Bulletin in 1960, I removed it, and precipitated some pathological abuse.
* They often see themselves as Britain’s favourite among the former dominions: Australia is gauche, noisy, belligerent, untrustworthy; paradoxically it is also a great friendly land of opportunity and 50 000 New Zealanders live there.
* Mr Kim Beazley, a right winger, was overseas. His substitute provided the majority for Evatt.
* His promise to develop the North in 1949 was so unfulfilled that he was able to make a similar promise in 1963 – and again do nothing about it. The North is like that.