Understanding a changing Australia: Ordinary people's politics

这个项目将使用上世纪80年代末收集的大量采访材料，并辅之以新的材料(待收集)，以调查澳大利亚人如何理解过去20年的社会和政治变化。它将特别关注：澳大利亚个人如何构建他们的道德共同体意识，他们对政府角色的期望，他们如何通过谈判从一个明确的白人英国国家认同转变为一个多元文化认同，他们对定居者-土著关系的理解。它将把这些回应与对他们的生活史和特色政治意识形态的分析结合起来。

This project will use a body of interview material collected in the late 1980s supplemented with new material (to be collected) to investigate how Australians have made sense of the social and political changes of the past two decades. In particular it will focus on: how individual Australians construct their sense of moral community, their expectations of the role of government, and how they have negotiated the shift from an explicitly white, British national identity to a multicultural one, their understandings of settler-indigenous relations. It will integrate these responses with analysis of their life histories and characteristic political ideologies.