The Seventies

The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

Michelle Arrow

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New South Books
01 March 2019

Australasian & Pacific history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Bargains; Australian Society

WINNER of the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

Australian Book Review's Books of the Year 2019 (read more here)

In1970 homosexuality was illegal, God Savethe Queen was our national anthem and women pretended to be married to accessthe pill. By the end of the decade conscription was scrapped, tertiaryeducation was free, access to abortion had improved, the White Australia policywas abolished and a woman read the news on the ABC for the first time.

TheSeventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. It was the decade of'It's Time', stagflation and the Dismissal, a tumultuous period of economic andpolitical upheaval. But the Seventies was also the era when the personal becamepolitical, when we had a Royal Commission into Human Relationships and when socialmovements tore down the boundary between public and private life. Women wantedchildcare, equal pay, protection from violence and agency to shape their ownlives. In the process, the reforms they sought - and achieved, at least in part - reshaped Australia's culture and rewrote our expectations of government.

Ina lively and engaging style, Michelle Arrow has written a new history of thistransformative decade; one that is more urgent, and more resonant, than ever.

'At last, personal politics as national history. In lucid and nimble prose, Michelle Arrow demonstrates that - in the 1970s at least - it was about the relationships, stupid. A revelation.' - Clare Wright

By: Michelle Arrow
Imprint: New South Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781742234700
ISBN 10: 1742234704
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michelle Arrow is an award-winning historian based in Sydney. Michelle is an Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University, where she teaches and researches postwar Australian history, the history of popular culture, and the ways history is depicted in television and film. She has been a research fellow at the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia. She has won a national award for her university teaching and her two books have both been shortlisted for several prizes. Michelle has also produced history for radio and television: in 2004, she was a historian-presenter for the ABC TV series Rewind, and in 2013, she made her first radio documentary, Public Intimacies: The Royal Commission on Human Relationships, which won the 2014 Multimedia prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards.

Reviews for The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

'At last, personal politics as national history. In lucid and nimble prose, Michelle Arrow demonstrates that -- in the 1970s at least -- it was about the relationships, stupid. A revelation.' -- Clare Wright