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The seven dwarfs: a team of rivals / Nicholas Brown -- The post-war reconstruction project / Stuart Macintyre -- Australia and the Keynesian revolution / Alex Millmow -- An age of the mandarins? government in New Zealand, 1940-51 / John R. Martin -- Sir Frederick Shedden: the forerunner / David Horner -- Sir Roland Wilson-primus inter pares / Selwyn Cornish -- Combs the Keynesian / Tim Rowse -- Sir John Crawford and agriculture and trade / David Lee -- Sir Allen Brown: an exemplary public servant / Sir Peter Lawler -- Sir Frederick Wheeler: public servant / Ian Hancock -- Paul Hasluck with Dr Evatt at the United Nations / Geoffrey Bolton -- John Burton: forgotten mandarin? / Adam Hughes Henry -- Sir Arthur Tange: departmental reformer / Peter Edwards -- Sir James Plimsoll: mandarin abroad / Jeremy Hearder.

In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for the first time, talented university graduates entered the public service, rose to senior levels, and exerted great influence over the affairs of the Commonwealth. With the secure tenure of being permanent heads of departments, they defined the age of the public service mandarin. This book explores the lives and influence of the Seven Dwarfs and their colleagues, bringing together the leading researchers on post-war Australian administration. Featuring four thematic chapters and ten biographical portraits, it offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the Commonwealth Public Service during a critical period in its history.

Edward M. Curr (1820-89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (1883), which has become a standard historical source. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Curr and explores both his life and legacy. In particular, it considers his posthumous influence on the Yorta Yorta native title case (1994-2001), when his written account of the Yorta Yorta ancestors played a key role in the failure of the claim. By exploring Curr's interactions with Aboriginal people—as a pastoralist and Aboriginal administrator—this book advocates a more nuanced, critical, and historically informed interpretation of Curr's ethnological writings than was evident in the Yorta Yorta case.

On 25 February 1843, under a prejudicial but hardly atypical headline of 'Black Outrage', the Port Phillip Gazette reported that an Aboriginal man from the 'Goulburn tribe' had been committed to stand trial for sheep stealing. The accused was a 'Bangerang' man named Warri, who the previous July had allegedly joined a group of his compatriots in spearing sheep on Edward M. Curr's 'Tongala' pastoral run, which was situated near the confluence of the Murray and Goulburn rivers. According to the Gazette, Warri had forcibly disarmed a shepherd to ensure the safety of his companions, and 'after killing about sixty [sheep], carried off the carcasses, the prisoner assisting, and exceedingly active throughout'. Remanded in custody pending his trial, Warri was entrusted to the care of William Thomas, an Assistant Protector of Aborigines.

On 25 February 1843, under a prejudicial but hardly atypical headline of 'Black Outrage', the Port Phillip Gazette reported that an Aboriginal man from the 'Goulburn tribe' had been committed to stand trial for sheep stealing. The accused was a 'Bangerang' man named Warri, who the previous July had allegedly joined a group of his compatriots in spearing sheep on Edward M. Curr's 'Tongala' pastoral run, which was situated near the confluence of the Murray and Goulburn rivers. According to the Gazette, Warri had forcibly disarmed a shepherd to ensure the safety of his companions, and 'after killing about sixty [sheep], carried off the carcasses, the prisoner assisting, and exceedingly active throughout'. Remanded in custody pending his trial, Warri was entrusted to the care of William Thomas, an Assistant Protector of Aborigines.

In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for the first time, talented university graduates entered the public service, rose to senior levels, and exerted great influence over the affairs of the Commonwealth. With the secure tenure of being permanent heads of departments, they defined the age of the public service mandarin. This book explores the lives and influence of the Seven Dwarfs and their colleagues, bringing together the leading researchers on post-war Australian administration. Featuring four thematic chapters and ten biographical portraits, it offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the Commonwealth Public Service during a critical period in its history.

Imagining protection in the Antipodean colonies : actors, agency and governance / Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck -- Culture and policies : Sir George Grey, protection and the early nineteenth-century empire / Richard Price -- "The British government is now awaking" : how humanitarian Quakers repackaged and circulated the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines / Penelope Edmonds and Zoë Laidlaw -- Philanthropy or patronage? : aboriginal protectors in the Port Phillip District and Western Australia / Samuel Furphy -- Protective governance and legal order on the colonial frontier / Amanda Nettelbeck -- Spanning two worlds : protection, assimilation and the role of Edward Meurant, government interpreter, New Zealand, 1840-1851 / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Edward Shortland and the protection of Aborigines in New Zealand, 1840-1846 / Marjan Lousberg -- Systematic colonisation and protection in Western Australia : the origin and nature of John Hutt's colonial governance of aboriginal people / Ann Hunter -- Protecting the protectors : evaluating the agency of missionary-protectors in the new settlements of Adelaide and Melbourne, 1838-1840 / Skye Krichauff -- A short and simple provisional code : the pastoralist as "protector" / Tim Rowse -- Lawful conduct, aboriginal protection and land in Victoria, 1859-1869 / Joanna Cruikshank and Mark McMillan -- Robert John Sholl : protection "Pilbara-style" / Malcolm Allbrook - "Protection talk" and popular performance : The wild Australia Show on tour, 1892-1893 / Maria Nugent.

The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol. Through two related case studies — the Australian honours system and the Australian of the Year award — this article explores the politics of national recognition in 1970s and 1980s Australia. We consider both the politics involved in the creation and alteration of awards by which individual achievement and service are recognised by the nation, and the politics involved in imagining and recognising an Australian nation as expressed in those awards. We argue that these two institutions were more than a means to acknowledge hard work or sacrifice; they were also significant sites for contests over the nature of Australia's post-imperial identity.