Cosmopolitan Civility: understanding power and difference by Andrew Jakubowicz

“…The 4 Rs conference at the University of Technology Sydney in October 2008 took place less than a year after the election of the Rudd Labor government. The moment is important to capture – the government had been swept into office on a wave of hostility to the Howard conservatives, but it did not have a mandate for radical reform. …”
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Australia's ‘Pacific Solution’: Issues for the Pacific Islands by Aulden Warbrooke

“…Abstract In 2013, the Rudd Labor Government introduced a new version of the ‘Pacific Solution’ to Australia's ‘problem’ with increasing numbers of asylum‐seekers arriving by boat. …”
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