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Title: | Stepping Up to the Plate: America, and Australian Democracy | Contributor(s): | Maddox, W Graham (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21132 | Abstract: | Australia's former prime minister, John Howard, was keen on telling people 'to step up to the plate'. Why not 'to stride out to the crease'? It takes no more syllables, and resonates with Australia's national sport. Mr Howard was often called a 'cricket tragic', whatever that may mean. He was nominated (unsuccessfully) by Australia and New Zealand to become the head of international cricket: vice-president and eventually president of the International Cricket Council. Why then, when he calls on someone to make an extra effort, does he fall back on a baseball image? Nowadays just about everybody is using it. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Melbourne University Publishing | Place of Publication: | Carlton, Australia | ISBN: | 9780522870329 9780522870305 9780522870299 |
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 160601 Australian Government and Politics 160603 Comparative Government and Politics 160602 Citizenship |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440801 Australian government and politics 440803 Comparative government and politics 440802 Citizenship |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified 940201 Civics and Citizenship 940203 Political Systems |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230201 Civics and citizenship 230203 Political systems |
HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/232848113 | Extent of Pages: | 339 | Series Name: | MUP Academic |
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