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Political Myth: the Political Uses of History, Tradition and Memory University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year Political myth: the political uses of history, tradition and memory Peter Ricketson University of Wollongong Ricketson, Peter, Political myth: the political uses of history, tradition and memory, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 2001. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1438 This paper is posted at Research Online. Bibliography Primary and Electronic Sources. Methods of accessing newspaper articles changed during the course of researching this study. Newspaper articles have therefore been cited in three different formats : 1. Where an article has been used from a newspaper file, the newspaper has been cited. 2. 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