Shaping Nations

As questions concerning nationhood and national identity continue to preoccupy both Canada and Australia, Shaping Nationsbrings together the work of Australian and Canadian scholars around five core themes: constitutionalism, colonialism, republicanism, national identity, and governance.

Linda Cardinal is Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. David Headon is a Cultural Advisor to the National Capital Authority and Director of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies in Canberra.

Contributors

vii

Foreword: His Excellency Greg Wood, Australian High Commissioner to Canada

xiii

Introduction

1

(4)

Linda Cardinal

David Headon

Part I: Constitutionalism

``The Blizzard and Oz'': Canadian Influences on the Australian Constitution Then and Now

5

(22)

John Williams

Sister Colonies with Separate Constitutions: Why Australian Federationists Rejected the Canadian Constitution

27

(12)

Helen Irving

Democratic Pluralism: The Foundational Principle of Constitutionalism in Canada

39

(34)

Errol P. Mendes

Part II: Colonialism

``Obnoxious Border Customs'': A Catalyst for Federation

73

(18)

Jeff Brownrigg

Planting British Legal Culture in Colonial Soil: Legal Professionalism in the Lands of the Beaver and Kangaroo

91

(26)

W. Wesley Pue

The Wattle and the Maple in the Garden of the Empire

117

(18)

Angelika Sauer

Part III: Relations Between Australia and Canada

Parties Long Estranged: The Initiation of Australian Canadian Diplomatic Relations, 1935-1940

135

(32)

Galen Roger Perras

Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? Huntington's ``Kin-Country'', Thesis and Australian-Canadian Relations

167

(16)

Kim Richard Nossal

Canada and Australia: An Ocean of Difference in Threat Perception

183

(12)

Desmond Morton

The Great War Soldier as ``Nation Builder'' in Canada and Australia

195

(30)

Jeffrey Keshen

Part IV: Republicanism and National Identity

The Australian Republic: Still Captive After All These Years

225

(20)

Mark McKenna

Mateship, Mayhem and the Australian Constitution's Preamble

245

(14)

David Headon

Canada's Republican Silence

259

(14)

David E. Smith

Part V: Governance

Participation of Non-Party Interveners and Amici Curiae in Constitutional Cases in Canadian Provincial Courts: Guidance for Australia?

273

(18)

Patrick Keyzer

Innovations in Governance in Canada

291

(20)

Gilles Paquet

Australian and Canadian Film Industries: A Personal Perspective

311

(14)

Judith McCann

A Practitioner's View of Comparative Governance in Australia and Canada

325

Greg Wood

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