The Regions in Ferment?

Davis Rex and Stimson Robert , ‘Disillusionment and Disenchantment at the Fringe: Explaining the Geography of the One Nation Party Vote at the Queensland Election’, (1998) 6(3) People and Place 69–82.

For a discussion of the 1998 federal election see Bean Clive and McAllister Ian , ‘Voting Behaviour’ in Simms Marian and Warhurst John , (eds), Howard's Agenda, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane 2000 especially p.178; and McAllister Ian and Bean Clive , ‘The Electoral Politics of Economic Reform in Australia: The 1998 Election’, 35(3) Australian Journal of Political Science 383–99 at pp.396–7.

See Age, 21 October 1996 and Australian, 17 June 1998.

Shamsullah Ardel , ‘The Policy of Confidence: Politics in Victoria 1992–1998’ in Costar Brian and Economou Nicholas , (eds), The Kennett Revolution, UNSW Press, 1999.

Woodward Dennis and Brian Costar , ‘The Victorian Election of 18 September 1999: Another Case of Electoral Volatility?’ (2000) 35(1) Australian Journal of Political Science 125–134.

See Pusey Michael , Economic Rationalism in Canberra, Cambridge University Press, 1991; and Capling Anne Considine Mark and Crozier Michael Australian Politics in the Global Era, Longman Cheshire, 1998.

Hughes Owen , Australian Politics, third edn, MacMillan, 1988; Emy Hugh and Hughes Owen , Australian Politics: Realities in Conflict Macmillan, 1988; Forsyth P. , ‘Achieving Micro Economic Reform’ in Marsh Ian , (ed), Governing in the 1990s: An Agenda for the Decade Ceda, 1993.

Aitkin Don , Stability and Change, second edn, ANU Press, 1982; and Janesch Dean , Power Politics: Australia's Party System, Allen and Unwin, 1984.

These are figures for the statewide House of Representatives vote. One Nation won a slightly larger primary vote in the Senate contest in each State, winning 4.1% in Victoria, and 3.7% in Tasmania. See the Australian Electoral Commission Election Statistics 1993, 1996 and 1998, CD Rom, 1999.

See Electoral Data in Australian Electoral Commission, Election 98: National Returns, AGPS, 1998. The 1998 federal election is discussed in McAllister Ian and Bean Clive , ‘The Electoral Politics of Economic Reform in Australia: The 1998 Election’, 2000 35(3) Australian Journal of Political Science 383–99.

See especially Kingston Margot , Off the Rails, Allen and Unwin, 1999 for a close overview of the Hanson campaign in the 1998 federal election.

See Verall D. and others, ‘Community, Country, Party: Roots of Rural Conservatism’ in Costar Brian and Woodward Dennis , (eds), Country to National, Allen and Unwin, 1985.

Woodward Dennis , ‘The National Party’ in Parkin Andrew Summers John and Woodward Dennis , (eds), Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, fifth edn, Longman Cheshire, 1994 at p.161.

These matters are discussed by Costar Brian , ‘The national party: Revival or extinction?’ in Costar Brian , (ed), For Better or Worse: The Federal Coalition, Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Woodward Dennis , ‘The Federal National Party’, in Costar Brian and Woodward Denis , (eds), Country to National, Allen and Unwin, 1985 p.61.

The state of the Nationals at this time is extensively discussed in Coaldrake Peter , ‘The Nationals: Where to From Here?’, (1987) November Current Affairs Bulletin 12–17.

See National Times, 2–9 August 1985, and The Bulletin, 9 July 1985.

The role of the NFF is discussed in Connors Tom , ‘The Farm Vote’ in Bean Clive Simms Marion Bennett Scott and Warhurst John , (eds), The Politics of Retribution, Allen and Unwin, 1997.

Australian Financial Review, 15 May 1987.

See Coaldrake Peter , ref 15, above, and also Prasser Scott and Wear Rae , ‘Non-Labor politics in Queensland: Fusion or Fission?’, (1990) January Current Affairs Bulletin 22–30.

Economou Nicholas , ‘Living off the Paradox: The Nationals and Electoral Decline’, (1993) July Current Affairs Bulletin, 21–26.

A discussion of these themes can be found in Brett Judith , ‘Liberal Philosophy from Menzies to Hewson’ in Costar Brian , (ed), For Better or Worse: The Federal Coalition, Melbourne University Press, 1994; and Costar Brian , ‘The Future of the National Party’ in Simms M. (ed), The Paradox of Parties, Allen and Unwin, 1996.

Barrett G. , ‘John Howard — Yesterday's Economic Manager?’ in Singleton Gweneth , (ed), The Howard Government, UNSW Press, 2000.

Birrell Bob Dibden Jacqui and Wainer Jo , Regional Victoria: Why the Bush is Hurting, Centre for Population and Urban Research paper, Monash University, January 2000.