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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Seeing for Himself : Harold Holt, Bushfire and Newspaper Depictions of Prime Ministerial Empathy
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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies (Re)thinking 1968 and Its Legacy in Australia vol. 43 no. 2 2019 16854195 2019 periodical issue  'Did Australia have a 1968? This might at first seem a fairly counterintuitive question. None dispute the year’s significance: a new Prime Minister took the reins after Harold Holt’s disappearance off Cheviot beach, the Vietnamese Tet Offensive shattered myths of American superiority, W. E. H. Stanner’s Boyer Lectures broke the “great Australian silence”, and the nation’s first Women’s Liberation group formed. Yet, for most commentators, the action lies elsewhere. For Robin Gerster and Jan Bassett, 1968 arrived “via airmail subscription” while social commentator Hugh Mackay proffered the year’s late arrival in the form of Gough Whitlam’s triumphant 1972 election.' (Evan Smith & Jon Piccini, Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 249-261
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