Mad Max: The car and Australian governance

National Identities

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-81

  Tranter, Kieran ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR USE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATIONAL POLITICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0345149408     PISSN: 14608944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14608940307120     Document Type: Article

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