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John Murphy
Books by John Murphy
Unlikely Survival
The Politics of Welfare in Australia since 1950
By John Murphy
An Unlikely Survival takes us through three-quarters of a century of welfare politics in Australia, to contests about political principles, and about what we think is the common good. As both economy and society were transformed, the need for government assistance, alongside the growth of civil s...
Forgotten Fifties
Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in the 1950s
By John Murphy and Judith Smart
The 1950s is usually treated in the popular media as a metaphor for an Australia that was complacent, monocultural, banal and domesticated. On the other hand, historical writing about the decade has long been dominated by accounts of political and foreign policy conflict, the Labor Split, the Col...