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Australian Politics and Policy: 2021 Junior Edition
THIS EDITION HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY THE 2024 PRESSBOOKS EDITION.
ISBN: 9781743328439
DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781743328439
Publication date: 13 December 2021
The first completely customisable, open access textbook on Australian politics, Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in junior and senior university courses. With an online database of 40 chapters, the book innovatively enables instructors to compile a bespoke edition to suit their teaching needs, or to include individual chapters in course readers.
With contributions from Australia’s leading politics and public-policy scholars, the textbook includes material on Australian political history and philosophy, key political institutions, Australian political sociology, public policy-making in Australia, and specialised chapters on a range of key policy domains.
Each chapter was subject to anonymous and rigorous peer-review to ensure the highest standards. The textbook comes with additional teaching resources including review questions and lecture slides.
This second edition contains a number of revisions and new chapters on educational policy, the governance of COVID-19, and political leadership.
The junior edition is aimed at first-year and second-year undergraduate students.

A project of the Australian Political Studies Association.
The members of the 2021 Open Textbook Editorial Group include: Dr Nick Barry (La Trobe University), Dr Peter John Chen (University of Sydney), Dr Yvonne Haigh (Murdoch University), Associate Professor Sara C. Motta (University of Newcastle) and Dr Diana Perche (University of New South Wales).
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- A short political history of Australia
- Australian political thought
- Institutions
- Executive government
- Parliaments of Australia
- Electoral systems
- The Australian party system
- The public sector
- Media and democracy
- Courts
- Federalism
- Commonwealth–state relations
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Local government
- Political sociology
- Gender and sexuality in Australian politics
- Government–business relations
- Indigenous politics
- Multicultural Australia
- Political leadership
- Pressure groups and social movements
- Religious communities and politics
- Voter behaviour
- Young people and politics
- Policy making
- Making public policy
- Communication policy
- Economic policy
- Education policy
- Environmental policy
- Foreign and defence policy
- Governance of the COVID-19 crisis in Australia: public policy during crisis
- Health policy
- Immigration and multicultural policy
- ‘Law and order’ policy
- Regional policy
- Social policy
- Urban policy
- Work, employment and industrial relations policy
- Copyright
- Metadata
- Static Site Processing Instructions
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This is an Open Access textbook licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
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