Janny HC Leung, Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders, 2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 320 pp

Abstract

<p>In the dying days of the 1996 election campaign, Paul Keating famously claimed that when you change the government, you change the country. Although at the time this was viewed as the desperate claim of a Prime Minister who knew his days were numbered, given what has followed in the decades since, many would now acknowledge its prescience. This collection of essays, edited by historians Frank Bongiorno and Benjamin T Jones, and the political scientist John Uhr, seeks to show that, despite what sometimes can seem to be the popular view – that no matter how Australians vote, nothing changes – the opposite is in fact true. The outcomes of elections do matter.</p>