2023
DOI: 10.1177/07255136231206181
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The negative Commonwealth: Australia as ‘laboratory’, then and now

Lorenzo Veracini,
Dan Tout

Abstract: Federated Australia was seen for a long time as a significant social ‘laboratory’. The Commonwealth itself was seen as an ‘experiment’. This widespread metaphor relied on a particular pattern of perception: the country was ‘new’ (it was not), and the country was allegedly isolated (it was not, at least not completely). Many believed that its social environment could be controlled, like that of a scientific laboratory. A laboratory is designed to shut all disturbances out – the value of the data and experiments… Show more

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