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Australia, Asia and cultural anxiety : inaugural AHA Anniversary Public Lecture, given at the Grand Hotel, Mildura on 29 September (2003).

Walker, David 2003, Australia, Asia and cultural anxiety : inaugural AHA Anniversary Public Lecture, given at the Grand Hotel, Mildura on 29 September (2003)., History Australia - journal of the Australian Historical Association, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-7.

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Title Australia, Asia and cultural anxiety : inaugural AHA Anniversary Public Lecture, given at the Grand Hotel, Mildura on 29 September (2003).
Author(s) Walker, David
Journal name History Australia - journal of the Australian Historical Association
Volume number 1
Issue number 1
Start page 1
End page 7
Publisher Australian Historical Association
Place of publication Sydney, N.S.W.
Publication date 2003-12
ISSN 1449-0854
Summary My theme tonight is the recurrent idea that Australia could be expected to have an Asian future. From the 1880s there developed a speculative literature around the notion that Asia ('generic Asia' as I prefer to call it) would exert an increasing influence, possibly a determining influence, on the development and settlement of the Australian continent. There is a certain pathos about this story of a young, newly formed community on the threshold of nationhood finding Asia blocking its path. Would the ensuing contest be the making of white Australia; would the young nation define its national purpose and assert its right to exist or would it succumb to a force more powerful? Would white Australia become nothing more than a faint historical memory, a failed experiment in the complex and uncertain business of nation building? In short, would white Australia fail?
Language eng
Field of Research 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2003, Australian Historical Association
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002309

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: School of Social and International Studies
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