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Historical Encyclopedia of WA

Politics, Government & Law

(See also Business, Industry & Economy; Citizenship & Suffrage)


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Articles

  • Baby Farming in Western Australia: The Case Against Alice Mitchell, 1907
    Penelope Hetherington
  • ‘Inefficients at best and criminal at worst’:Juvenile Delinquency in Western Australia during the Interwar Years
    Rosemary Kerr

Book or other reviews

  • Hal G.P. Colebatch, Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch
    Brian de Garis
  • Ian Duckham, Serving the Servants-Serving the State: A Brief History of the Institute of Public Administration of Australia,
    WA Division 1945-2005

    Harry C.J. Phillips
  • Kate Auty, Black Glass: Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936-54
    Neville Green


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Article

  • Trashing Heritage: Dilemmas of Rights and Power in the Operation of Western Australia’s Heritage Legislation
    David Ritter
Book or other review

  • David Black and Harry Phillips, eds., Making a Difference: Women in the Western Australian Parliament 1921-1999
    Jasmina Brankovich


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Article

  • ‘… No Jury Will Convict’: An Account of Racial Killings in Western Australia
    Hannah McGlade & Jeannine Purdy


The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Book or other reviews

  • Katharine Massam, Sacred Threads
    Veronica Brady
  • Harry Phillips, David Black, Bruce Bott & Tamara Fischer, Representing the People: Parliamentary Government in Western Australia
    Allan Peachment


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Articles

  • Images of Women in Western Australian Politics: The Suffragist, Edith Cowan and Carmen Lawrence
    Joan Eveline & Michael Booth
  • Amending the Suffrage Story: Local Government in Western Australia 1876-1999
    Judy Skene
  • ‘Who Would Sew His Buttons on?’: Gender Roles and Rhetoric in the Western Australian Parliament 1893-1899
    Serie Jones
  • Aliens to Ethics: The Politics of Citizenship
    Christine Gillgren
  • ‘Take Heart’: Women’s Process in the First Campaign of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Western Australia
    Sharon Davies
  • Taking Action Against Domestic Violence in the 1970s: Nardine Women’s Refuge and Radical Feminism
    Suellen Murray
  • Women at the Constitutional Convention: Small Steps – Great Strides
    Clare Thompson
Book or other reviews

  • Bobbie Oliver, War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914-1926
    Malcolm Saunders
  • Bobbie Oliver, Peacemongers: Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Australia 1911-1945
    Malcolm Saunders


Perspectives on Sport and Society, Ed Jaggard and Jan Ryan (eds), 18, 1997

Book or other review

  • Paul Hasluck, Light That Time Has Made
    Robert Porte


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Book or other review

  • Ken Spillman, A Rich Endowment. Government and Mining in Western Australia 1829-1994
    Charlie Fox


Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994

Articles

  • The Price of Protest: Press and Judiciary in 1870
    Geoffrey Bolton
  • The Politics of the Press: A Study of the Conservative Press in Western Australia 1930-1934
    Louise Secker
  • Justina Williams, Anger and Love
    Amirah Inglis


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Book or other reviews

  • Anna Haebich, For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the Southwest of Western Australia, 1900-1940
    Marie Hansen Fels
  • Lenore Layman and Julian Goddard, ORGANISE! A Visual Record of the Labour Movement in Western Australia
    Andrew Reeves


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Articles

  • The Stamp of Authority: Postage Stamp Design 1840-1988
    Brian Pope
  • The State Housing Commission and Aboriginal Housing 1959
    Kathy Bell
  • Labour’s Annual Holiday: Eastern Goldfields Eight Hours Demonstrations 1900-1914
    Lenore Layman
  • The Opening of the Canning Dam
    Jenny Gregory


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987

Article

  • Religious Education under Attack: The Challenge to General Religious Instruction in the Western Australian Parliament
    Peter Wellock


European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History, Bob Reece & Tom Stannage (eds), 8, 1984

Article

  • The Gribble Affair: a Study in Colonial Politics
    Su-Jane Hunt
  • Records Relating to Aborigines in the Western Australian Government Archives
    Tom Reynolds


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Book or other reviews

  • Michael C. Howard, Aboriginal Politics in South-Western Australia
    Andrew Markus
  • Elizabeth J. Harman and Brian W. Head (eds), State, Capital and Resources in the North and West of Australia
    Ken Buckley
  • C. T. Stannage (ed.), A New History of Western Australia
    Beverley Kingston


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Articles

  • The League of Nations Union in Perth: Internationalism in Isolation
    Margaret Steadman
  • The Study of External Affairs in Western Australia, 1924-54
    Fred Alexander


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981

Articles

  • Petitions, Memorials and Politics in Western Australia, 1829-1849
    Andrew Gill
  • The Census of 1861: an Intriguing Incident in Western Australian History
    Ian Vanden Driesen


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Archival Note

  • The Supreme Court of Western Australia
    Tom Stannage
Book or other reviews

  • P. Loveday, A. W. Martin and R. S. Parker (eds), The emergence of the Australian party system
    H. J. Gibbney
  • Lloyd Ross, John Curtin: a Biography
    Fred Alexander


Studies in Western Australian History, 2, 1978

Articles

  • Politicians and Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia 1897-1907
    Suzanne Welborn
  • Walter James and the Campaign for Federation
    Lyall Hunt
  • The 1900 Federal Referendum in Western Australia
    Wendy Hillman
Book or other reviews

  • Sean Glynn, Government Policy and Agricultural Development
    Steve Dyer
  • Max Brown, The Black Eureka
    Raymond Evans
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