Is Australia a Class Society? If so, in what sense?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:13:05
Introduction
Australia, historically was founded on the notion of a land deviod of class, as equal opportunity for all existed on a country newly born on mispercieved terra nullis. Settlers came as convicts from overcrowded prisons in England and was brought to an entirely new land and a new beginning. Beyond that there was a rigid class division, involving at one level, the transported convicts, at the other level, the military and administrative colonial masters.
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Unequal, Traditional and New Views', in P.Symth and B. Cass (eds) Contesting the Australian Way, Cambridge University Press: Melbourne, Chapter 13
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Assignment 2
Is Australia a class society? If so, in what sense?
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