Fear and Politics
Lawrence, Carmen
The survival of our democracies depends not on our capacity to hit back at the terrorists, but on our capacity to think for ourselves.'
To talk of Australians and fear in the one breath might seem a contradiction. The defining element of our vision of ourselves is of a resilient and fearless bunch of iconoclasts who could never be stampeded into frightened submission.
But Dr Carmen Lawrence argues that fear has been a crucial factor in shapin...
