Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword. Is Australia a Victim of the Ethical Limits of the Enlightenment? A Modest Foreword for an Immodest Venture

pp vii-xii

Preface and Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xvi

Chapter One - Introduction

pp 1-12

Part One - Getting Inside Australian Public Culture

pp 13-14

Chapter Two - The Enlightenment and Tradition in Early Colonial Society

pp 15-32

Chapter Three - Australian Values and Their Public Culture(s)

pp 33-44

Part Two - Three Moments of the Enlightenment

pp 45-46

Chapter Four - Moment One. An Act to Regulate Chinese Immigration (1858): Celestial Migrations

pp 47-62

Chapter Five - Moment Two. Cubillo v. the Commonwealth (2000): The ‘History Defence’ – Standards of the Time

pp 63-78

Chapter Six - Moment Three. Australian Localism and zthe Cronulla Riot (2005): The ‘Barbaric Law’ of ‘He Who Was There First’

pp 79-94

Part Three - Working with the Necessary Other

pp 95-96

Chapter Seven - The Closing of Public Culture to Communal Difference

pp 97-114

Afterword. The Emptiness Within and Without: Enlightenment Australia and Its Demons

pp 115-122

Notes

pp 123-142

Index

pp 143-147