Border Protection, the 2001 Australian Election and the Coalition Victory

dc.contributor.authorMcAllister, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:36:21Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T09:31:24Z
dc.description.abstractWhile the issue of refugees and asylum-seekers has preoccupied many European countries, until the November 2001 federal election Australia had largely been immune from the problem. In the election, border protection - combining the Tampa crisis with the 'war against terrorism' - were central electoral issues. Analysis of the 2001 Australian Election Study shows that border protection cost Labor the election. Labor suffered defections to the Democrats and Greens over its position on refugees and asylum-seekers, and defections to the Coalition on terrorism. Negative public attitudes towards asylum-seekers rested on opposition to immigration, but also on a particular dislike of arrivals from the Middle East. By contrast, support for the 'war on terrorism' was based mainly on notions of fairness and democracy. Of the two border protection issues - asylum-seekers and terrorism - terrorism was the more important of the two in shaping the election outcome. If 11 September had occurred but the Tampa crisis had not, the Coalition would in all probability still have won the election.
dc.identifier.issn1036-1146
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/76719
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Political Science
dc.titleBorder Protection, the 2001 Australian Election and the Coalition Victory
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage464
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage445
local.contributor.affiliationMcAllister, Ian, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu8002356@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidMcAllister, Ian, u8002356
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160601 - Australian Government and Politics
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub5530
local.identifier.citationvolume38
local.identifier.doi10.1080/1036114032000133985
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0345491406
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByMigrated
local.type.statusPublished Version

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