Lecture Notes for POLS 2067

Australian Political Parties

Lecture 1: Introduction to Political Parties

Lecture 2: Origins of the Australian Party System

Lecture 3: The Australian Labor Party and PowerPoint

Lecture 4: Prime Ministers and Their Parties (David Adams)

Lecture 5: The non-Labor parties (summary)

Lecture 6: Convergence and PowerPoint

Lecture 7: Party Re-building - Five Case Studies (PowerPoint)

Lecture 8: Party Organisation and Finance (PowerPoint)

Lecture 9: The Politics of Coalition

Lecture 10: Leadership Transition and Succession (summary)

Lecture 11: Kevin Rudd and the Australian Labor Party (Dr Rick Kuhn)

Lecture 12: The celebritization of politics

Lecture 13: Parties, ideology and values

Lecture 15: John Howard and the Liberal Party (Dr Wayne Errington)

Lecture 16: The future of political parties