Colonial Sunset: Australia and Papua New Guinea, 1970-74

Leslie Wilson Johnson

University of Queensland Press, 1983 - History - 271 pages

Contents

• Prologue: 1
• The inheritance: 9
• First things: 24
• Politics: 45
• The new men: 95
• A national coalition: 112
• Taking up the reins: 130
• Action and inaction: 143
• Devolution: 164
• Society in transition: 174
• The economy not in transition: 187
• Labor and Papua New Guinea: 197
• Shedding the bonds: 221
• On the brink: 238
• SelfGovernment Day: 249
• Epilogue: 259
• Index: 267

Bibliographic information

• Title: Colonial Sunset: Australia and Papua New Guinea, 1970-74
• Author: Leslie Wilson Johnson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 1983
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 5, 2006
• ISBN: 0702218235, 9780702218231
• Length: 271 pages
• Subjects: History / Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania