Australian Nationality and Nativism: The Australian Natives' Association, 1885-1901

Blackton, Charles S.

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“…For a long time, and for many people, at least, there was little sense of disparity between a developing Australian national identity and a feeling of being of British background. Partly counteracting that in the decades around federation was vehement identification of themselves on the part of some Australia-born settlers as "natives," in contrast to those born in the British Isles (Blackton 1958). To live in Australia around federation, in any event, was to live in a country that, accepting or rejecting, nevertheless recognized its fundamentally British origin and erased and downplayed its Indigenous occupancy (Moran 2006).…”

Section: "Nation" and "Tribe": Outsider Perspectives And Categoriesmentioning

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Australia's First Nations

Merlan

2022

American Anthropologist

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Since the 1990s, the term "nation" for Indigenous Australian groups has emerged, along with an increasingly common phrase "First Nations," used both by Indigenous groups in self-reference and by others in reference to them. This article examines the multiple sources of nation and its emergence in Australia as a contemporary form of Indigenous political discourse. Following a history of repeated dismissal of representative organizations by the Australian state, collective gains in recognition and legal visibility of Indigenous people, globally and nationally, have motivated a search for persuasive forms of organization that can command political authority between local social forms and governments, businesses, and other entities. Treaties are commonly understood as between distinct "nations," but-notoriously-the Australian state did not negotiate treaties with Indigenous people. The emergence of "nation" is aspirational and double-sided: it responds to dominant Australian conditions and political demands but retains much that is distinctive of Aboriginal social process rather than erasing it in the socio-political innovation of nationhood. The rise of Australian Indigenous "nations," recent and partial, sheds light both on persistence in Indigenous action and extension of governmental power into Indigenous domains-the "post-" of settler colonialism.

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Section: "Nation" and "Tribe": Outsider Perspectives And Categoriesmentioning

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Australia's First Nations

Merlan

2022

American Anthropologist

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“…First, Australia is widely noted as a multicultural 'success story', with over a quarter of the population being born overseas, and half of all households having at least one parent being born overseas. On the flipside, Australia also has a long history of racism and exclusionary nationalism that can be traced to the pre-federation period (Blackton 1958) and the first piece of legislation the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia passed in 1901 was the so-called 'White Australia Policy' (Fozdar et al 2015). According to Stokes (2004, pp.…”

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Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes

2022

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Nativism is one of the defining phenomena of the contemporary era. Yet, we know little about how malleable citizen attitudes associated with nativism and nationalism are to priming effects when media frames which deal with key issues such as immigration are introduced. In this article, we present the findings from a survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of voters in Australia in May 2019. In it, we explore whether the attitudes of voters for different political parties can be primed by introducing two contrasting media frames to measure these effects. We find positive and negative frames have no effect on the attitudes of voters for Australia’s populist radical right party, but that the former has an effect on centre-right voters in Australia. Such findings have important implications for our understanding of political communication and the malleability of political attitudes.

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“…The Bulletin attacked the young, middle-class members of the Australian Natives Association not only for their attachment to the empire, but also for their nativist bias. 89 It characterised as 'Australians' not only those who had been 'merely born in Australia', but all white immigrants who had left behind 'the memory of the class distinctions and Class, Birthplace, Loyalty 231 religious differences of the old world'. 90 Its definition thereby embraced working-class immigrants whose attachment to the new country was born of disillusionment with the old, and who shared with discontented natives Utopian visions of Australia's future.…”

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Class, birthplace, loyalty: Australian attitudes to the Boer War

Connolly

1978

Historical Studies

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Australian Nationality and Nativism: The Australian Natives' Association, 1885-1901

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Australia's First Nations

Australia's First Nations

Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes

Class, birthplace, loyalty: Australian attitudes to the Boer War

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