2. Australian Imperialism

A narration of the processes in the evolution and the making of Australia’s geopolitical state. The state began in a crime of aggression against Aboriginal nations, stealing their land. Colonization established the state and the consolidation of its power. It evolved in wars against Aborigines and people overseas on behalf of British imperial power. State power further advanced in the domination of a growing society embedded in a capitalist colonial economy, inscribing state violence based on racist fears of Asians and communism and the colonization of the mind, creating an imagined white nation. Expansion of the Australian state relies on global war, shifting the fulcrum of power from British global rule to the rising power of the US Empire. The Americanization of Australia’s political and economic regime constitutes a final phase in the expansion of state power, leading Australia to the present environmental and pandemic crisis. In their demands for a new green deal, Australians are confronted with an increasingly repressive emerging authoritarian state.