Abstract
In the years just prior to federation, Alfred Deakin drew the contours of a map of fear that would define virtually every aspect of life in the new state of which he was to become prime minister. In a speech made in 1898 to his staunch allies, the Australian Natives Association (a body whose name already discursively eliminates the land’s first peoples from the space of the nation-to-be) Deakin urged the delegates to take up “the fiery-cross of Federation,” warning that unless swift action was taken, “we may never be able to recall our lost national opportunities.” Mentally surveying the surrounding region he pronounced: “from the far east and the far west alike we behold menaces and antagonisms.”1
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Alfred Deakin, The Federal Story: The Inner History of the Federal Cause 1880–1900 (1944; repr., Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1963), 179.
Anthony Burke, Fear of Security (2001; repr., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 2, 10.
Kevin Rudd, “Arc of Instability-Arc of Insecurity,” The Sydney Papers 14, no. 4 (2002), 114.
Dennis Rumley, “The Emergence of Australia’s Arc of Instability,” in Australia’s Arc of Instability: The Political and Cultural Dynamics of Regional Security, ed. Dennis Rumley, Vivian Louis Forbes, and Christopher Griffen (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006), 17.
David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (1992; repr., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), ix–x.
Derek Woolner, “Policing Our Ocean Domain: Establishing an Australian Coast Guard,” ASPI Strategic Insights 41 (2008), 2–3.
Vivian Louis Forbes, “Australia’s Maritime Space: Conflict and Cooperation,” in Australia’s Arc of Instability, ed. Dennis Rumley, Vivian Louis Forbes, and Christopher Griffen (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006), 23.
Although later in this book I reference Arjun Appadurai’s Fear of Small Numbers (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), my argument here is related more to questions of relative size rather than numerical comparison, and is focused on practices of policing and quarantining at the border rather than “the enemy within” that is Appadurai’s central concern.
Ruth Balint, Troubled Waters (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005).
Natasha Stacey, Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone (Canberra: ANU Epress, 2007), 171–72.
See Jacquie Everitt’s account of the Badraie family’s experiences in The Bitter Shore (Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2008).
James Dunn, “East Timor in the Arc of Instability,” in Australia’s Are of Instability, ed. Dennis Rumley, Vivian Louis Forbes, and Christopher Griffen (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006), 101.
Simon Philpott, “Fear of the Dark: Indonesia and the Australian National Imagination,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 55, no. 3 (2001), 376.
Patrick Lindsay, Back from the Dead (Sydney: Random House, 2003), 38.
See also Tony, Kevin, A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X (Melbourne: Scribe, 2004),
Suvendrini Perera, “They Give Evidence: Bodies Borders and the Disappeared,” Social Identities 12, no. 6 (2006), 645–47.
Antonis Balasopoulos, “Nesologies: Island Form and Postcolonial Geo-poetics,” Postcolonial Studies 11, no. 1 (2008), 15.
Frank Fox [pseud. C. H. Furness], The Australian Crisis (1909), quoted in Australia and the World: A Documentary History from the 1870s to the 1980s, ed. Neville Meaney (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985), 178–79.
Peter Stanley, “Threat Made Manifest” Griffith Review (2003), 23; see also Peter Stanley, Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942 (Camberwell, Vic: Viking, 2008).
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) Isma-Listen: National Consultations on Eliminating Prejudice Against Arab and Muslim Australians (Sydney: HREOC, 2004), http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/isma/index.html
Brian Deegan, Remembering Josh: Bali, A Father’s Story (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005, 133.
Clinton Fernandes, Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor (Melbourne: Scribe, 2004), 128;
David Newman, “Citizenship, Identity and Location: The Changing Discourse of Israeli Geopolitics,” in Geopolitical Traditions? Critical Histories of a Century of Geopolitical Thought, ed. Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson (London: Routledge, 1998), 303.
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Perera, S. (2009). The Gulliver Effect. In: Australia and the Insular Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103122_6
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