How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green?

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green?
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Dennis Altman
Edited by Sean Scalmer
SeriesPolitics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:282
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135
ISBN/Barcode 9781925377149
ClassificationsDewey:324.294
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Monash University Publishing
Imprint Monash University Publishing
Publication Date 1 June 2016
Publication Country Australia

Description

Red or Green? Traditionally, Australian progressives have supported the Australian Labor Party; increasingly, The Greens appeal. What are the key differences between the parties? Is greater collaboration desirable? Is it likely? Some progressives remain strongly committed to Labor or The Greens. Others have abandoned one or other of the parties from bitter experience. Others still are genuinely undecided, or seek to promote greater understanding and cooperation. What is the best way forward? This volume brings together a range of party leaders, veterans, and academic experts to tackle these important questions. Deliberately pluralistic, it encompasses strongly divergent views. Dedicated to progressive change, it aims both to capture and to advance a vital public debate. The Age has published this edited extract from a chapter written by Adam Bandt for the book How to Vote Progressive in Australia

Author Biography

Dennis Altman, a Professorial Fellow in Human Security at LaTrobe University, has published thirteen books, most recently The End of the Homosexual? and (with Jon Symons) Queer Wars. In 2006, The Bulletin listed Dennis Altman as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever, and he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008. Sean Scalmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Dissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia (UNSW, 2002) and Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest (Cambridge, 2011).