Defining Australian Citizenship

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By: John Chesterman, Brian Galligan

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Paperback | 22 November 2024 | Edition Number 1

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An original and fascinating record of the shifting nature of Australian citizenship.

During our first century as a nation, citizenship-for a majority of Australians-has meant the enjoyment of progressive political, social, economic and legal rights. Yet many groups in our society have been denied the usual benefits of citizenship, including; the vote; equality before the law; freedom of speech, religion and movement; health care; education and a minimum wage.

Unlike that of the United States of America, Australia's constitution provides no definition of the rights and obligations of its citizens. John Chesterman and Brian Galligan have searched Commonwealth and State legislation, parliamentary debates, law reports, official correspondence, United Nations conventions and works of historical scholarship, and provide surprising evidence to show that the concept of citizenship in Australia is an elusive but crucial one.

It pervades Australian politics, and has determined the course of individual lives in many different areas, including female suffrage, the White Australia Policy, compulsory voting, Aboriginal rights, equal pay, sex discrimination, wartime internment and Menzies' attempt to ban the Communist Party.

In Defining Australian Citizenship they reveal, for the first time, the complexity of Australian legislation as it has tried, over the years, to accommodate changing ideas about exactly what citizenship entails and who is, or is not, eligible for it.

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"A fascinating collection of materials that serves as an excellent introduction to issues surrounding citizenship and which whill stimulate debate on what it means to be an Australian citizen." --"Reform"

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Acknowledgements
List of Documents
Introduction	p. 1
Formal Citizenship
Citizens by Birth	p. 21
New Citizens	p. 41
Substantive Citizenship
The Vote	p. 89
Free Speech	p. 120
Freedom of Religion	p. 137
Freedom to Move	p. 150
Equal Protection of the Law	p. 167
Free Basic Health Care	p. 192
A Minimum Wage	p. 208
Social Security	p. 229
Education	p. 243
Indigenous Citizenship
Indigenous Rights	p. 257
Select Bibliography	p. 270
Index	p. 274
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